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For many years Victoria has offered a Club Permit Scheme (CPS) for vehicles older than 25 years which allows the owners benefits such as lower registration fees and no stamp duty on vehicle transfer. There are restrictions on the amount of days the vehicle can be used – 45 or 90, and each vehicle must […]

Reader comment on YouTube: Great video, thank you [ video embedded below]. I will throw this out there just for discussion. What if you apply light to perhaps moderate normal braking during a sway event, (Tow vehicle and Trailer), and apply the accelerater simultaneously to prevent the tow vehicle from decelerating? It would be interesting […]

Reader question: I am the person responsible for posting the recent question on the caravan and camping forum. Being new to social media, I had no idea what sort of s##t storm I could create! I have read lots of your articles and viewed your videos…they are EXCELLENT! you put things in simple and easy […]

So let’s say you’re driving along a dirt road, hook into a corner a bit fast and the back end steps out. Or, you’re on a fast, sweeping corner at a fairly constant speed and same thing, back end starts to overtake the front. Maybe you’re just driving straight and hit a bit of an […]

“Hi Robert after watching the towing webinar I have ended questioning my selfI own a Mitsubishi Triton MR auto twin cab 4×4 and I’m thinking of buying a Titanium off Road van 18’ single axle as with an ATM of 2880kg and a tare 2200 ball approx 170kg. My Triton weights 2240 kg with fuel […]

Bioptic driving – are you, or do you know someone who is losing their eyesight or born with low vision, and wants to continue to drive? In this interview Robert Pepper talks to me, Belinda O’Connor, founder and director of Bioptic Drivers Australia. At the time I had only been driving for three years and […]

We’ve all seen stunningly wrong advice and fights online, but which type of forum is the worst? I decided to ask my readers that question, and here’s the results: Yes, a clear win to the caravan forums. For once I agree with my readers..there’s really no contest. Right now my eyes are seared by someone […]

My first drive of the Gaz Trackmaster attracted a lot of commentary from Russians, which sent me to Google Translate to figure out what they were saying! There seemed to be a theme emerging, and one viewer posted a comment which really explained to me a lot about Russia, vehicles and Gaz. I’m reproducing it […]

Watching couples back a caravan together is one of my all-time favourite pastimes. You know it’s going well when the driver uses 5000rpm to move the rig three metres! So I’ve come up with a few different models for Caravan Partnership Reversing…which one are you, or maybe another? Remote Control – the spotter directs everything […]

Blokes, we need to fix this. Women are around 50% of the population, but a small fraction of the 4X4 world. Now why is this? Nature, or nurture? We don’t need to aim for 50%, but we do need to ensure that all who want to have a go, can have a go. So I […]