[Davehoos]

The road worthy system in NSW works. In my working life it has been stuffed around with not for the better and the threat of having centralised inspections have been regularly Squashed by doing independent genuine random inspections and roadside testing.

Everyone knows of a dodgy provider and they do get run out of business if they fail genuine safety standards. Several have closed up in the last few years locally caught out by computer data matching.

I had a drama last year getting the land rover to pass the modern brake test as the local station cant do heavy vehicles.

My dealing with NZ WOF was based in south island [christchurch]. Found no difference to the what goes on locally. My last trip there it was a government push to reduce the cost of operating the money side of the system as the rest was working.