Truck operators and dealers will be significantly restricted in what they can do for one weekend in August as the NZ Transport Agency seeks to update their 17-year old computer system.
The agency’s Landata database, which is core to most of the public transactions the NZTA makes, will go offline from 7am on Saturday, August 25, until around 9pm on Sunday, August 26.
This will mean operators will not be licence a vehicle, buy a road user charges licence, apply to change ownership or exempt a vehicle, register and obtain plates for new or imported vehicles, or access online vehicle registration checking services.
Vehicle traders won’t be able to verify vehicle registration information for the purposes of buying and selling vehicles. Warrant of fitness/certificate of fitness service providers will be unable to enter inspection results into the NZTA’s system.
The services will be affected both online or with one of the NZTA’s agents, including AA, BP, NZ Post, VINZ, VTNZ.
The NZTA’s ‘Landata’ database is one of the country’s largest databases. It hosts the ‘motor vehicle register’, and the ‘road user charges’ and ‘warrant of fitness/certificate of fitness’ databases.
Landata will be offline for up to 38 hours as more than one billion individual records are migrated (or transferred) from the 17-year-old mainframe system on to a new Windows-based computer platform.
The outage includes time to test the system at the NZTA’s and agents’ offices.
The outage is the last stage of a two-year, $8.2 million project to modernise the NZTA’s driver licence and vehicle databases.
The early stages of the project included updating the computer environment for front line staff, and migrating the ‘driver licence register’ to the new platform in May.
Vehicle Inspection NZ general manager Frank Willett says his stations will be open normal hours over that weekend providing inspections, with results likely to be entered into the system on the following Monday.
