was in katoomba nsw less than 5 getting warned about my plates and license if i was gonna stay.
SA's licenses and court system are crazy. We apparantly use to have that good behavior thing, what we have now.... well when i went through it was confusing as hell and no one seemed to understand it even the people putting it through.
According to the courts and the magistrate, it was an appeal against license disqualification and I won the right to keep my license, the only penalty being that under any circumstance if i was to have sapol attempt to remove my license I would not be able to challenge it (yes sounds similar to good behavior bond), as I was a nightfill manager at the time, I wasnt hit with the 6 month no driving at night.
I was on p2's at the time and a month away from my full license.
According to the magistrate and everyone at the court, I go in, hand in my license... reason being if i didnt win, they could make sure i wouldnt have a drivers license on me. Conditions of winining according to the manual i was issued with was a nighttime curfew may be imposed, I also would be refunded the money for my license and the next day I would have to go down to the dmv to collect my license again.
Ok now you can make some sense out of that, won my appeal, magistrates harsh words if I was in the same position again I had lost my right of appeal.
I go to the dmv.... im told no refund will be issued. Im then asked to hand over my license and evidence of winning the appeal. I then get told my license has been cancelled, I tell them tehy cant do that i've won my appeal. They tell me yes.... they havnt disqualified me.... they are reissuing the license as under new SA law that had passed just a few days before, my license was to be regressed (I called a lawyer about this after and was told it was a bunch of crap as the magistrate said I didnt have that happen im not meant to, and I didnt lose my license or come back from disqualification so it was the dmv just pushing this crap on to me, fun part was there was no way to appeal it).
I was then told my license was going to be given back to me once i paid $300 then and there. (I had driven there on the card the court had issued me that was only good to drive to the dmv to pickup my license) got told I was going back to p1's and i was going to hold it for 3 years and then 1 year on p2's.
Now according to qld documentation and law, my license has not been removed by an order of australia court. I've called a lawyer and confirmed this, so in their eyes i've held my license since 2007 making that 3 years this year.
My license is also a non restricted license, according to the lawyers at bajada around the corner, in queensland based on the documentation on their website, I qualify for a full license, and pending a refusal on that, an exemptions license.
Now one thing ive learned as stated above..... government departments arent hte smartest and love to follow stupid paperwork ideals. Im just wondering how to best handle this.... transport qld just seem to want to do their best to not answer my questions and keep directing me to an email adress where i keep being told to call the call center where each time I get some arrogant person who will tell me to sell my car, take my luck or that they arent authorised to answer any of my questions. The one thing I do get out of these people is that there is someone above them who makes these decisions based on the information and that i need to contact them.
Yet some how none of them can seem to give me contact details for them.
I cant even get onto anyone about this in NSW or NT... nt's been a million times worse, not one email replied to, all of their call centers just put me on hold.
Im at a loss of how to progress further with this.... im not trying to wrought the system like others do, the state I go to is based on the outcome of this, im going over for work and a change of scenery, not to upgrade my license and come back. Bit hard to go somewhere else and work / start a new if I cant drive anywhere or even own my own car.
