You may be able to sell trucks and commercials this weekend, but completing the deal is likely to be a little trickier with the NZ Transport Agency’s LANDATA system being switched off temporarily for a massive upgrade.
From 7am on Saturday 25 August until 9pm Sunday 26 August vehicle traders and others will be unable to verify vehicle registration information for the purposes of buying and selling vehicles while the upgrade is completed.
Also off the list will be buying road user charges (RUC) licence or an annual vehicle (vehicle rego) or apply to change ownership or exempt a vehicle from registration, registering and obtaining plates for a new or imported vehicle and accessing online vehicle registration checking services, e.g. Motochek.
The weekend upgrade will be the last stage of a two-year project to modernise the NZTA’s 17-year-old mainframe system to a modern computer platform. The last stage of the upgrade involves migrating (or transferring) more than one billion individual records to the new system.
Celia Patrick, NZTA group manager for access and use, says the agency apologises for any inconvenience while the upgrade is completed this weekend.
“We looked at several options for performing the switch-over, but given that the only way to achieve it is to take the system completely offline for several hours, the weekend upgrade will be the least disruptive for customers,” says Patrick.
“The new system will better accommodate advances in technology and, over time, will support a wider range of services to be adopted with changes able to be made more quickly, easily and cheaply.”
