You have compelled me to look and, surprisingly and, contrary to my earlier statement, if they have any specific policy against carriage of fuel they have done a masterful job of hiding it. It seems they do not except for TransWA vehicles. (But read on anyway )cj7hawk wrote:Ahh, thanks for that - that's very very helpful - Can you provide me any links to where those kinds of materials are banned? I had assumed that to be the case, but would like to track down where it's actually specified if possible...ColinOldnCranky wrote:That'd be right and understandable. I and many of my friends and acquaintances have a need to carry flammable liqiids far less dangerous than petrol. (Did I mention that I am into fire eating, flaming whips, and so forth?) We are aware that even our relatively benign fuel (recasol G, wants to go out once alight) is not to be carried on trains and buses (though it is easy to do so surreptitiously).Mulger bill wrote:I'm not sure if WA is the same but if you take a petrol powered bike on a train in Vic, be prepared for a whole world of legal pain if you're busted. Serious safety issue.
Fire-eating, cracking a flaming whip, while riding a unicycle??? OK, I got to see that - let me know when you're performing
David
However, under the Public Transport Authority Regulations 2003 (as amended 24July 2009) they do have the following:
A big stretch to interpret fuel as an explosive. Besides, with fuel in your bike it would hard to deny that you have a lawful excuse anyway.21. Possessing certain things prohibited
A person, other than an authorised person, a security officer or a member of the Police Force in the proper exercise of his or her duties, who, without lawful excuse, possesses any one or more of the following things on or in Authority property commits an offence —
(a) an explosive;
...
...
Penalty applicable to paragraphs (a) to (d): a fine of $2 000.
However, from the same regualtrions
That is a pretty useful catch all. I suspect that is what they used against my daughter when she copped a fine for carrying fuel to a gig she was heading to. You could however probably be on safe ground if you had an ASA certified container correctly sealed though. Is there a design standard that applies to the fuel tank on petrol powered bikes?22. Goods likely to spill, stain, or damage a conveyance
A person who takes, or causes to be taken, onto a conveyance any thing which is likely to —
(a) spill; or
(b) stain or cause damage to a conveyance,
commits an offence.
Modified penalty: a fine of $100.