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This is the text message I kept getting from Uber for the past few weeks.

I didn't really need it. I keep electronic diaries for this sort of stuff and I knew my registration expired on August 6, so I was set up to renew it on August 2.

I knew that Uber can access the Transport and Main Roads site, so I assumed that since they were smart enough to know my rego and CTP were due, they'd be smart enough to know that it had been renewed.

Which it was - on August 2, as planned.

I often go out around 7:45 am on a Monday, as I'm likely to pick up an airport run. Around $40 for a pleasant 30 mins on the motorway.

But when I tried to this morning, the Uber app wouldn't connect me.