Primary producers whose properties have been drought-declared may be eligible for vehicle and transport-related assistance.

Primary producer eligibility

You are eligible for drought assistance if your property has been drought-declared through either: 

• an individual droughted property declaration 
• a regional council/shire declaration.

Find maps of drought-declared areas.

For any of the assistance measures to be applied to a vehicle, you must:

• be a registered operator of the vehicle.
• be a primary producer.
• garage the vehicle within a drought-declared area or property.
• be using the vehicle only for primary production or private purposes.

You can't apply for assistance for conditionally registered vehicles or vehicles receiving a farm plate concession.

Applying for drought assistance

To apply for these drought assistance measures, visit your local Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) Customer Service Centre with evidence that your property is in a drought-declared area. You can provide a copy of either:

• an Individually Droughted Property Approval (provided by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries)
• documentary evidence of address. This must be in the form of a Category A, Category B or Queensland garaging address document as listed within the evidence of identity requirements for individuals form (PDF, 173KB) and clearly display your name, address and the issuer of the document.

Concessions, exemptions and waivers

Vehicle registration concessions, exemptions and waivers

Certificate of inspection fee waivers

Registered operators of eligible primary production vehicles may apply for an exemption from the certificate of inspection (COI) fee by contacting TMRs Services Booking Unit on 13 23 80 at least 2 days prior to the inspection.

The fee waiver does not exempt vehicles from being inspected or from needing a COI to be issued.

You are only exempt from the fee payable to TMR for a COI and not from any fee payable to an approved inspection station.

Stock route grazing and droving on declared Queensland Road reserves.

A stock route grazing permit allows you to graze your stock on local or state-controlled roads, stock routes and reserves for travelling stock.