RV FEATURE
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
South Australia’s caravan registration system
is cumbersome. It takes into account many
variables, including the value of the caravan
and the weight. Strangely, SA’s Department
of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure
requests the Gross Vehicle Mass of the caravan
when calculating the fee. But, as you know,
GVM doesn’t apply to caravans (motorhomes,
yes). Presumably, the department means ATM
(or possibly GTM).
Due to the unwieldy nature of the South
Australian system, it’s difficult to present
the fee to renew caravan registration.
However, we underwent a mock process
online attempting to register a van for the
first time for 12 months.
We gave our ‘van’ a Tare of 2200kg and a
‘GVM’ of 2600kg. The fee worked out at $95,
plus additional costs for the numberplate.
Due to the variables involved with registering
a van in South Australia, it’s difficult to be any
more specific. But the good news is that for the
‘average’ caravan, as described above, the fee
appears to be somewhat reasonable.
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TASMANIA
The Apple Isle has a lot going for it. But a
clear caravan registration system is not one
of them: Tasmania’s Transport department
seems to confuse GTM and GVM in its trailer
registration advertising, but since we’re
talking trailers, it’s safe to assume this
particular bureaucracy means GTM.
In any event, caravans that have a GTM
of between 500kg and 4500kg incur a
12-month renewal fee of $139.
AUSTRALIAN
CAPITAL TERRITORY
To register a caravan in the ACT is
gob-smackingly expensive. I hope you’re
sitting down.
As with New South Wales, the registration
fees are determined according to the Tare
weight of the caravan/trailer. It starts at
$81.70 to register a trailer up to 250kg
Tare, but in our table we’ve picked out
the brackets most relevant to caravanners.