Travelling with a bike carrier

[Nestus]

I hope this is the correct thread.  I have a Thule 2 bike carrier with my bakkie's number plate on it.  We are travelling this coming weekend taking another car but with my carrier.  Do i need to change the number plate or can i travel with my bakkie's number plate?   What should happen if we get pulled over or get a fine and the number plates dont match?

Thanks in advance 

[DR ◣◢]

I hope this is the correct thread.  I have a Thule 2 bike carrier with my bakkie's number plate on it.  We are travelling this coming weekend taking another car but with my carrier.  Do i need to change the number plate or can i travel with my bakkie's number plate?   What should happen if we get pulled over or get a fine and the number plates dont match?

Thanks in advance 

 

Obscuring your number plate or having the wrong plate on your car is considered defeating the ends of justice. Same as not having plates on your car. 

 

Impounding of the vehicle and/or arrest depending on how grumpy the traffic dude is. 

 

First hand experience when I had no plate on my bike. Managed to talk my way out of a prison rogering. 

 

Get a spare plate made. 

Edited August 5, 2020 by Mr Dampf

[Nestus]

Obscuring your number plate or having the wrong plate on your car is considered defeating the ends of justice. Same as not having plates on your car. 

 

Impounding of the vehicle and/or arrest depending on how grumpy the traffic dude is. 

 

First hand experience when I had no plate on my bike. Managed to talk my way out of a prison rogering. 

 

Get a spare plate made. 

 

I was also thinking of taking the licensing disc of the other car with to prove it's legit. 

[DR ◣◢]

I was also thinking of taking the licensing disc of the other car with to prove it's legit. 

 

Wont help to be honest. They will see it as having the wrong plate on the car. 

This isn't like towing a trailer where it is licensed on its own. The rack becomes an extension of the car itself. 

[Trevz]

Probably best to save yourself the hassle and just duplicate the cars number plate, you know each traffic cop has his/her own standards and rules...Isn't it like 200 bucks for a number plate?

[RobertWhitehead]

Yip, I think the metal ones are even less than R100 - I think I paid R80 or something like that a few years ago. The guy sommer made the plate whilst I waited in the shop. 

 

Probably best to save yourself the hassle and just duplicate the cars number plate, you know each traffic cop has his/her own standards and rules...Isn't it like 200 bucks for a number plate?

[Kranswurm]

I hope this is the correct thread.  I have a Thule 2 bike carrier with my bakkie's number plate on it.  We are travelling this coming weekend taking another car but with my carrier.  Do i need to change the number plate or can i travel with my bakkie's number plate?   What should happen if we get pulled over or get a fine and the number plates dont match?

Thanks in advance 

Change the plate on the rack to be the same as the vehicle or you will be fined big time

[BaGearA]

Yip, I think the metal ones are even less than R100 - I think I paid R80 or something like that a few years ago. The guy sommer made the plate whilst I waited in the shop.

Jip nowadays it's A 15min excersise max

[Nestus]

Thanks for the info, makes sense.  Will get a plate made.

[ChrisF]

Jip, about R150 for an extra plate.

 

Beaufort West has a reputation for halting your trip until you faced a judge on a charge of "defeating the ends of justice" ....

 

Western Cape regularly issues fines for missing or wrong plates on bike carriers.

 

 

For a R150 just not worth the hassle.

[Jase619]

Jip, about R150 for an extra plate.

 

Beaufort West has a reputation for halting your trip until you faced a judge on a charge of "defeating the ends of justice" ....

 

Western Cape regularly issues fines for missing or wrong plates on bike carriers.

 

 

For a R150 just not worth the hassle.

 

Yoh haai, we only start relaxing on our way down to Argus after we have passed this place. Cops smell the thousands of cyclists coming.

[ChrisF]

Yoh haai, we only start relaxing on our way down to Argus after we have passed this place. Cops smell the thousands of cyclists coming.

 

Group of friends passed through BW at the start of a long weekend .... the cops pulled over vehicles at random.  A buddy had some convenient mud on his numberplate, while the bike was spotless clean ....

 

"defeating the ends of justice"

cuffs on ....

off to the magistrates court

Thankfully they got a hearing before the court closed for the long weekend, case postponed, bail paid, and they could carry on with their weekend.  

 

 

Could have gone BAD very quickly !!

[Carmichael]

Bwest and N2, i did the same took a buddy's bike rack with his number plate and my amarok had my plate, got so much k*k, to ok the plate off and had to show the fine to 7 different cops who pulled me over, wasted almost 2 hours of driving time and alot of negotiations. 

[The Ouzo]

Had a cop coming from the opposite direction go all the way around the big circle in BW to stop us and try and issue fine for no plate, luckily it was there, just hanging lower down than what he expected.

 

Then he wanted to fine us for expired license disc, after pointing out that we were within the 21 day grace period he reluctantly let us go

[Bateleur1]

Group of friends passed through BW at the start of a long weekend .... the cops pulled over vehicles at random.  A buddy had some convenient mud on his numberplate, while the bike was spotless clean ....

 

"defeating the ends of justice"

cuffs on ....

off to the magistrates court

Thankfully they got a hearing before the court closed for the long weekend, case postponed, bail paid, and they could carry on with their weekend.  

 

 

Could have gone BAD very quickly !!

 

I will sure tell the traffic the police and the municipality there the next time BW run out of water I sure will not be dropping bottles of water off there again.  No problem with fining for number plate obstruction but cuffing and making your life crap just because they can is not on.

[DREDDY]

Quick question. would this additional number plate be for bike carriers, where the wheels sit in the carrier, hooked to a towbar, like a Thule one OR the bikes that hang from a carrier, like a boot carrier, tied down with ropes and clips?