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Thread ID: 135052	2013-09-19 04:01:00	ACC levies on motorists.	mzee (3324)	PC World Chat

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1353904	2013-09-21 05:50:00	its an insurance scheme. I have never claimed on my household, car, health, travel (or life) insurance). So would you recommend me cancelling the polices? A.	afe66 (13778)
1353905	2013-09-21 07:12:00	It's a rort, an additional compulsory tax, imposed on the already over-taxed populace. I am happy for people to take out insurance based on their need and risk profile. I am NOT happy to have no choice on whether I need it, or who insures me. I'm damn sure that a private enterprise company could provide better cover for cheaper than I pay these bastards. But as long as I have to pay outrageous premiums to ACC, I can't afford private insurance on top. ACC have stiffed me in the past and are ready and willing to do it again the next time I need to make a claim...	johcar (6283)
1353906	2013-09-22 20:17:00	ACC have stiffed me in the past and are ready and willing to do it again the next time I need to make a claim... Yes....don't know any self employed people who like it.... Still...how's this. Son trashed his back at work. Naturally backs are a con..... To make it worse...he found there was a pre-existing condition none of us had known about.... So we waited for ACC to reject his surgery he needs...and.... They approved it! Shock, horror. They must be slipping. Or is it too many court cases they have lost lately? Or maybe as he got p***** off with the dragging on, went back to work full time...that frightened them...... His work hired some temp helpers for him, ACC now send him pay slips showing the $0.00 they are giving him... LOL.	pctek (84)
1353907	2013-09-22 21:04:00	I have been lucky in that they paid for both operations on my shoulder and compo to recover, they were happy to pay me to stay home when what I really needed was a bit of help towards study fees so I could change career. But they don't help with that, so while I can't complain too much it does seem crazy that since I wasn't going to be able to go back to my trade they wouldn't help me retrain	gary67 (56)
1353908	2013-09-23 06:49:00	I have been lucky in that they paid for both operations on my shoulder and compo to recover, they were happy to pay me to stay home when what I really needed was a bit of help towards study fees so I could change career. But they don't help with that, so while I can't complain too much it does seem crazy that since I wasn't going to be able to go back to my trade they wouldn't help me retrain I always thought that retraining was one of the things to get you off ACC faster	plod (107)
1353909	2013-09-26 09:33:00	When I opened this topic I thought it was ging to be a good read until I saw the opening post with the same old bulldust about cyclist blah blah blah. Well blow me if I had the option with where I live I would be using my bicycle a whole lot more than I do now but you always have some tit complaining about cyclists. So the goverment wants to screw older cars with an extra $100???? Oh yea I can see a lot more on the road driving on exemption and for those that are not so clued up driving with licence then wondering why its been backdated and they either got a debt or cancelled registration as well as a debt. We have two cars on the road of the same make and model 1990 and 1992 I already get screwed by ACC because one of them has a diesel powerplant whats the actual safety differance I ask myself? So before I satrt the engine one is paying $130 per year more than the other thats $2.50 per week! Ok so the Fuel is cheaper 73 cents current price! But then its also getting screwed about 5.5 cent per kilometre. Hows that compare to economy? ones roughly 11 km per litre (yea I calculated it that way) the others 17 kph. Roughly translates to 14.5 cents per km for the diesel and 20.5 cents for the petrol! So if the diesel is doing more than 294kms per week its actually cheaper to run! That aside how is the diesel more likely to be involved in an accident? or should say more likely to cause injury than the same identical petrol model? So if they want to put up the cost by $100 they need to get this differance sorted first.	coldfront (15814)
1353910	2013-09-26 11:17:00	cf, I think the Gummint works on the principle of people with diesel powered vehicles do more mileage than people with petrol powered vehicles, ergo have more accidents.	Whenu (9358)
1353911	2013-09-26 20:14:00	cf, I think the Gummint works on the principle of people with diesel powered vehicles do more mileage than people with petrol powered vehicles, ergo have more accidents. Which gives us a clue as the the intelligence of thee gummiment.	Cicero (40)
1353912	2013-09-26 20:17:00	Ok so the Fuel is cheaper 73 cents current price! But then its also getting screwed about 5 . 5 cent per kilometre . . Well no . . . . . add road tax on and the extra you pay on your rego and it isn't much different anymore . . . . . HUsband says that too . . . how is his ute less safe than the equivalent one in petrol?	pctek (84)
1353913	2013-09-26 20:40:00	Much of the diesel ACC levy difference comes back to earlier thinking, where the majority of diesel vehicles were commercial trucks etc travelling significant differences per yer, and very very few were private passenger vehicles. It also fails to take in to account the improved economy and reduced emissions of modern diesel engines. Needs a complete overhaul, imo.	inphinity (7274)
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