New amount of pionts on license in NSW
Posted by: araman
24th Nov 2010 09:37am
The government is thinking about adding 1 point on to your license for car drivers and 2 points for professional drivers. This is a great idea but it would be better to reward the better drivers with a clean record with the extra points.
Professional drivers need a higher point level because they are driving a lot longer hours.
If you have a clean record for five or ten years or in some cases a lot longer you should have a higher level of points for doing the right thing. If you have lost points for speeding or some other crime why are you getting rewards with more points, is this so you can speed a bit more before you lose your license.
r43026a
- 19th Nov 2013 10:22pm
If the government was serious about a system of demerit points; then I would suggest that a new driver should be allocated only a few points and each year they could earn additional points and once a requiste number of points were accumliated then there should be a reduction in the cost of insurance and registration. The demerit points should not be stripped away as quickly as they are at present, but the effect of an insentive programme should be of a greater benefit than giving a driver an increased number of points, only to enable them to be taken faster. The construct is flawed, why not give fewer points and then take fewer; It would seem to be a mere numbers game the bigger the number the greater the benefit. This is in and of itself a crock!!
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