A look at Club Plate Co., a VicRoads-accredited club permit provider and one of our clients — what they do, how the Victorian Club Permit Scheme works, and what it costs.
We work with businesses across a fair range of industries, and every so often one of them is worth writing about on its own terms. Club Plate Co. is one of ours.
Club Plate Co. is a VicRoads-accredited club operating under the Victorian Club Permit Scheme. If you own a vehicle that is more than 25 years old, that scheme lets you register it on a club permit rather than full registration — a limited-use arrangement of either 45 or 90 days a year, recorded in a logbook.
Historically, getting onto a club permit meant joining a traditional car club: membership, monthly meetings, and waiting on paperwork to come back in the post. Club Plate Co. removed that step. Permits are endorsed online, and there is no club to attend.
There are four steps. You get a roadworthy certificate from an accredited tester, submit your documents online, take the roadworthy and the club endorsement to a VicRoads centre, and drive away with plates and a logbook issued over the counter. The vehicle itself does not need to be present. Their full breakdown of how the process works covers each step properly.
Membership is $99 a year. The VicRoads permit fee and the roadworthy are paid separately and directly — Club Plate Co. does not mark either of them up. For anyone running a classic that spends most of the year in a shed, the sums against full registration tend to be straightforward.
If you have a vehicle sitting on full registration that it does not earn, the eligibility requirements are worth five minutes of your time.
