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I knew it is illegal to ride in the back of a ute but I didnt know it is still legal to ride in the back of a panelvan as long as all the cabin seats are occupied.
So you can legally carry five people in a two seater panelvan, the driver, one in the passengers seat and three in the back.
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I highly doubt it would be legal. If the compliance plate lists seating capacity as 2, then theres no way in the world you can have 3 unrestrained passengers in the back.
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I highly doubt it would be legal. If the compliance plate lists seating capacity as 2, then there's no way in the world you can have 3 unrestrained passengers in the back.
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Kind of on that question. Has anyone had any experience with installing extra seats in the back of a van? I was thinking of putting something like this http://www.childrestrain...php?m=product_list&c=30
behind the seats in the sandm
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When I was a kid my Dad took 6 kids to the Easter show in the back of a Morris Mini Panelvan. I dont think they had the seating capacity plate on them.
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Back in the mid nineties we drove from the punters club in fitzroy to the public bar in nth melbourne one night, and when everyone piled out of the back of my mates HR panel van we counted 14 people!
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Can I ride in the back of a utility?
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my daughter fitted 12 people in her Morris Minor.
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About 12 months ago the ACT government discovered that it was perfectly legal to travel in the back of any vehicle if all of the seating positions were already full.
They changed that law immediately.
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Yes, i remember reading a newspaper article on riding in panel vans, it was completely legal but was changed. this is in W.A, i presume would be the same for the rest of Australia 
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I always though it was illegal.
I remember my father telling me a story of how someone he knew was killed when the panel van he was sleeping (or just laying down) in the back of had an accident.
His head hit the back of the bench seat (or bulkhead
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I used to go to the drivein with 3 or 4 of my best girlfriends hidden in the back of my eh van,,,
that was before the war though, and things have changed since then,
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