DRIVE A2B July 2018
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CPVAA<br />
in for the protection of the<br />
Australian public and their motor<br />
vehicle.<br />
ANCAP, Australasia’s leading<br />
independent vehicle safety<br />
advocate, provides consumers<br />
with advice and information<br />
on the level of occupant and<br />
pedestrian protection provided<br />
by different vehicle models in<br />
the most common types of<br />
crashes. ANCAP’s vision is “To<br />
eliminate road trauma through<br />
the testing and promotion of<br />
safer vehicles”.<br />
We find it staggering that the<br />
Taxi Services Commission and<br />
TfV have failed to consider<br />
(Fit for Purpose) the safety<br />
of the vehicles when granting<br />
accreditation of vehicles for use<br />
as a Commercial Passenger<br />
Vehicle.<br />
The CPVAA recommended<br />
to TfV that, moving forward,<br />
all CPV’s should, as a very<br />
minimum, meet a 5 star ANCAP<br />
safety rating before they are<br />
accredited as a CPV. This<br />
recommendation was rejected<br />
by TfV.<br />
Victorian Ombudsman<br />
The inquiry into the Fairness<br />
Fund by the State Ombudsman<br />
Ms Glass has concluded.<br />
For us it raises more questions<br />
than gives answers. The<br />
feedback from those applying<br />
told a devastating story of<br />
hardship inflicted upon people<br />
who simply did not deserve to be<br />
treated so poorly.<br />
The Andrews Government’s<br />
response was not one of<br />
acknowledgement of a poorly<br />
administrated procedure, but of<br />
deflection inferring that delays<br />
were about managing fraudulent<br />
behaviour. Placing a slur across<br />
all those who applied.<br />
Only 1200 people applied to<br />
this UnFairness Fund out of<br />
1300 133 353<br />
www.avagroup.net.au<br />
TAXI CONVERSIONS<br />
STARTING<br />
FROM $13,695.00<br />
+ OPTIONS<br />
approximately 5000 taxi and<br />
hire car licence holders. The<br />
application was complicated and<br />
difficult to fill in, large numbers<br />
of licence holders advised us<br />
they had no confidence in the<br />
process, and they proved to be<br />
correct.<br />
Ms Glass said in part; “Its poor<br />
communication, compounded<br />
by delay, was unreasonable and<br />
would have exacerbated the<br />
distress already felt by people<br />
who believed the government had<br />
taken away their livelihood or life<br />
savings”.<br />
“In these circumstances, despite<br />
the worthy motive behind its<br />
establishment, calling it a<br />
Fairness Fund was asking for<br />
trouble. The Fund itself has<br />
completed its work but there are<br />
important lessons to be learned<br />
for the handling of such schemes<br />
in future. Good intentions should<br />
not be undone – as they were in<br />
this case – by poor execution.<br />
Deborah Glass Ombudsman”<br />
The UnFairness Fund is<br />
only one part of unfair<br />
changes made to the<br />
Commercial Passenger<br />
Vehicle industry, those<br />
changes designed to<br />
accommodate a foreign<br />
Ride Share Operator.<br />
The price to be borne by<br />
innocent Victorian families<br />
for years to come.<br />
• Lift Type Vertical Split Long Platform Internal Fully Automatic<br />
• 2 x Sets Slide & click W-Chair & L/Sash Occupant Restraints<br />
• 2 x Toyota Style Original Folding Seats c/w New Floor & Wall Brackets<br />
• Flush Floor & Polyflor Non Slip Floor Coverings<br />
• Reverse Triple or 4 Seater, Crash Frame, Seat Belts & Head Rests<br />
• Large Metal Lockable Restraint Storage Box at Rear<br />
• 3 x Child Restraint Anchor Points & Fixings<br />
49 Fennell St, Port Melbourne Vic 3207 | 1636 Sydney Rd, Campbellfield Vic 3061<br />
23 Armada Place, Banyo QLD 4014 | 54 - 60 Industry Dve, Tweed Heads NSW 2486<br />
1300 133 353<br />
www.avagroup.net.au<br />
We were abandoned by<br />
the Andrews Government,<br />
we feel let down by the<br />
Victorian Ombudsman.<br />
Rod Barton<br />
President, CPVAA<br />
10 <strong>DRIVE</strong> <strong>A2B</strong> magazine · <strong>July</strong> <strong>2018</strong>