Don't hold your breath, what ever is adopted in other states NSW Transport will go backwards on. Queensland moved to Australian Standards in 2012 for Vehicle modifications which NSW signed off on, but NSW won't recognise any modification not done in NSW. My official reply was "Sorry its not done to NSW Australian Standards, it will have to be re-engineered again".

Road Vehicle Standards Act is a federal regulation.

States will have no choice..they must comply as they do now with the 1989 Act.

This regulation has been in place for the issuance of compliance plates for motorhomes for a number of years and is now being extended to include caravans. Every manufacturer will be required to submit a prototype of a model to the Dept of Infrastructure before a compliance plate for that particular model will be issued. Approvals will be reliant upon compliance with amongst other things weights and weight distribution.

This is a major step forward for consumers and the industry and is long overdue.

 

Yuglamron wrote:

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Sounds good on paper and should be National compliance for all ADR's.

Big drawback no-one enforces those ADR's.

Take just one ADR that is different in each state. 

LED Lightbars.

Qld's ADR,

Says no light bars on top of Bullbars. No Forward facing light bars on the rear half of a vehicle. Spotlights and Light bars not to be visible from the Driver's view. Spotlights and Light Bars not to protrude beyond the foremost part of the Bull Bar. Quite a few more but you get my drift.

Just drive down any road in Qld and see how many vehicle do not comply with this one ADR.

One K over the speed limit  and you will be done. Drive by a copper with a vehicle that does not comply with ADR's. Chances are pretty remote that anything will be done.

My gripe over.

 

How it will work is the prototype is submitted for approval by Dept of Infractructure, they will make any necessary required changes. All subsequent vans of this model must be built as per prototype.

This will now give RVMAP some power to ensure that manufacturers comply as they will dob in any non complying builder to the Dept.

It should also weed out some of the cowboys building sub standard vans because they simply will not get compliance plates for them.

A big step in the right direction for consumers 

 

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Yuglamron, ADRs aren't always enforced but they are still enforced. Just like policing speed limits sometimes are, sometimes aren't. Join any 4x4 group on social media and you soon hear the stories of enforcement. There was a mini blitz aimed at 4x4 earlier this week on the Centenary Highway near Indoorpilly.

Yeh!

It will be the heavier one mate 

But, nothing will really changed for caravans because they fall under the classification of 'Light Trailer'.

Manufacturers will continue to 'self assess' as they do now.

 

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Under the RVSA, trailer manufacturers supplying more than four vehicles to the Australian market in a 12 month period will need to register with the Department and obtain a type approval for that model of trailer. This type approval will essentially be a self-declaration by the manufacturer that the trailer under that type approval complies with the applicable standards. This approval will be subject to the same conditions as any other vehicle type approval (i.e. requirement to be able to provide access to manufacturing and design facilities).
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