I wonder how much it will be for push bikes…

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    Ah yes I am seeing how this could work. Sign people up, start charging them based on the average mileage. Let them enter their actuals through an app/website. At WOF time, verify actual usage. And you could adjust the auto-charging based on actual usage (e.g. if they only travelled 5,000km last year, this year you split it to that amount - a bit like how provisional tax works for income tax).

    Also remove the need to display your km ticket for light vehicles.

    That’s on their list which is good.

    The current system with ordering them online is good, but could be much better.

    I had no idea when I was supposed to order another label until someone on here told me one of the numbers on the label was the end number and you compare with your odo. But if we don’t have windscreen labels then that’s not even going to work.

    I want a system where I don’t have to think about it (like petrol tax).

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        I mean there are hundreds of thousands of people across the country handling RUC fine, so I guess it can’t be that bad, but it definitely feels like it could be improved.

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          It’s mildly annoying to have to remember to go buy them and the slightly unnerving when you realise you’ve gone over. I’ve never got pulled up on being over and I was unwhittingly driving around for ~3 months that way.

          In rural towns I’d say enforcement is passive in that they mainly rely on vehicle sales and other events to trigger re-ups. It is weird how many diesels have broken ODOs compared to petrol cars. 🤔

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            Oh I never considered there might be consequences. I also drove around for months over the RUC km limit, and only recently thought to check and was several thousand km over.

            I really hope they come up with a good system.