12 Month WoF’s & CoF’s – FoMC President’s message to all FoMC Member clubs
Following the great announcement on Sunday 9th February by Hon. Chris Bishop, Minister of Transport of the long-awaited news of 12-month WoF’s & CoF’s for all vehicles 40 years and older, and for private motor homes, submission will open on Mon 24 Feb and close on Fri 4th April.
We have appreciated all the supporting comments and social media posts from clubs, club members and enthusiasts beyond the Federation.
There are three points that I want to share with you are:
- All clubs will soon receive a note directly from the NZ Transport Agency (Waka Kotahi).
I want to update you as members of the FoMC with further details of the announcement itself, together with details of the public submissions process for the 6-week consultation period commencing Monday 24 February and closing Friday 4 April.
We are assisting NZTA by providing them with your club email addresses, so that you will be guaranteed of receiving the communications from them. Note that they will use the email addresses ONLY for the 12-month WoF & CoF review and they will then delete the addresses when the process is complete.
- With regard to the Federation’s submission, we aim to have an outline of the specific points that we will be making by approx. March 1, and we will communicate these with all clubs knowing that this information may assist clubs to finalise their own thinking and submissions.
- Ahead of any submission outline from us, we urge all clubs to start your thinking, either at the committee level or across your membership, with regard to specific points that you believe your club should submit yourselves. It might just be a submission thanking the government and the authorities for the decision that they have made, and encouraging them to continue to listen, and to act on, the input and needs of the historic and classic vehicle sector. Even that message will strengthen our position for the future. We especially encourage you to provide anecdotes in your submission. For example, we have members that need to take a day’s annual leave every time they renew their WoF due to the distance to their nearest inspection site. Currently that’s 2 day’s leave per annum per vehicle.
We will continue to keep in close touch on this subject, and the great progress that caught us all a little by surprise!
2024 AGM: President’s personal message to all Member Clubs
Historic and Classic Vehicle Survey: Final Results
Welcome to the New Zealand Federation of Motoring Clubs, and the final release of the first-ever NZ Historic and Classic Vehicle Survey 2024, released 27 February 2024.
The Federation itself is the largest single player within our historic and classic vehicle community, with almost 150 vehicle clubs, over 140,000 members, and 48,000 historic and classic vehicles, together with very large membership from the motorhome and caravan sector. Our work is summarised in our statement, “Protecting our heritage into our future“
Why is this NZ Historic and Classic Vehicle Survey so important? It closely follows similar work undertaken in the UK, and in these times of change and challenge that face us all, the NZ Survey determines for the first time the social and economic footprint and impact of our collective passion for historic and classic vehicles, and the views of the New Zealand public at large.
The final results and outcomes are very revealing, and perhaps, surprising, even more so than the preliminary results announced in September 20223!
There’s a great collection of material, insightful data and headline outcomes, never seen before in the “Vehicle Survey 2024“.
The NZ Federation of Motoring Clubs
The FOMC was founded in 1994 as a group of motoring enthusiasts interested in the preservation of their vehicles and the right to use them on public roads without undue restriction by regulatory authorities. The foundation meeting was attended by 31 clubs and has grown to 150 member clubs, representing more than 131,000 members. The Federation is an incorporated Society with an Executive selected by postal ballot from member clubs and has the authority to co-opt technical personnel if required. All officers, except the Secretary, are unpaid and spend a great deal of time working for the benefit of member clubs.
The Federation is an umbrella organisation for clubs and does not accept individuals as members.