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biggles


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In Victoria from November 1st new rules about mobile phones & GPS units - can only be used if in a cradle. I'm about to purchase a UHF radio for trip away soon, but how do you use a mike while driving ?????????. Do they have any with Bluetooth???

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Thats an interesting question.....UHF....can be as destracting as a mobile phone I guess....My TX3440 has its controls on the mike........that might help.........Hmmmmm

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I just rang the coppers and asked them, here in south australia there is no law governing the use of uhf whilst driving provided you drive with due care!

bit strange given it is indeed a major distraction!

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What a negative world we live in, soon it will be illegal to talk to your passenger whilst driving.

Below is a URL to the relavent site, I found this on another forum.

http://www.racv.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/racv/Internet/Primary/road+safety/roads+_+traffic/road+rules/common+road+rules/victorian+road+rules+changes+2009



-- Edited by JRH on Wednesday 11th of November 2009 01:43:55 PM

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biggles wrote:

In Victoria from November 1st new rules about mobile phones & GPS units - can only be used if in a cradle. I'm about to purchase a UHF radio for trip away soon, but how do you use a mike while driving ?????????. Do they have any with Bluetooth???


If they did not include uhf you dont have a problem .

15yrs ago we had head mount mikes that were voice activated .

they were used by earth moving loader operators  [ particually excavators  &

machines with multiable operating levers .]

they could talk to the truck drivers ,leaving both hands free.


 



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In answer to your question is it is an offence to use a radio while driving in Victoria.
I work for the DSE and if we have to use the radio while driving it is the same as the phone we have to pull over to use it other wise we pay the fine if caught.

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One wonders what hapened to acessorys such as voice operated transmit microphones which were readily avalable back in the late 70s when I was selling 27Mhz CBs, are they still avalable?

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dave06 wrote:

I just rang the coppers and asked them, here in south australia there is no law governing the use of uhf whilst driving provided you drive with due care!

bit strange given it is indeed a major distraction!


Is everyone driving in SA have a passenger by the name Due Care???
That dude sure gets around....  sorry mate...

 

 



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biggles wrote:

 

dave06 wrote:

I just rang the coppers and asked them, here in south australia there is no law governing the use of uhf whilst driving provided you drive with due care!

bit strange given it is indeed a major distraction!


Is everyone driving in SA have a passenger by the name Due Care???
That dude sure gets around....  sorry mate...

 

 

 


Judging by the number of accidents on our roads I think Due Care spends most of the time asleep, maybe we should crank up the stereo and wake the bugger up.

 



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do we have Representatives in all states on here, maybe we could all do what I did and give the walloper's a ring and get their slant on it in each state, interesting to see the outcome!

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Hi you will probably find due care means its not ilegal watever you are doing. But if you have an acident doing watever you were doing, you are then charged with driving with undue care. So its probably beter not to picup unduecare, Id leave him?her on the side of the road. Cheers

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The cops probably have personal interpretations of the laws, as we saw with Basil's experience with the rego sticker.
It would be handy to get a copy of the law which applies to UHF radios.
The truckies would be cranky.

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well its interpretation that we must obey when confronted with the law, the police woman I spoke to left the phone for a while and asked someone else, who in turn asked someone else who came back with the answer that I posted

I guess I could always make a phone call to boylan our solicitor to clarify the south australian standpoint!

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The ONLY way to find out for sure is to drive past a police car whilst using your UHF radio. If you are stopped...............it's illegal !! :)

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Gday
Back in about 1997 4 of us were heading out of some little town in Vic loaded with Cattle when the local copper pulled the last truck up , checked his log book all was ok with it (for once lol) so he wrote him up for using a hand held communication device (CB radio)(I read the ticket) .
Talking to a few different Vic coppers over the years I asked them about it and most said it all depended on the attitude test .

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Disco Duck wrote:

The ONLY way to find out for sure is to drive past a police car whilst using your UHF radio. If you are stopped...............it's illegal !! :)


Disco, on behalf of everybody on this site, I nominate YOU......
Should be $235 & 3 points.

I asked the copper one day ( Who had just pulled me up for speeding ) how come it was illegal for me to talk on a mobile phone, but not for him to use his 2 way radio mike whilst in pursuit - He said that he was trained to operate it..
All I could say is we must have a TOPGUN school for coppers, one rule for me none for them.

 



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