FWPCOT3259 Operate a four wheel drive on unsealed roads

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for FWPCOT3259 ended on 26 January 2022 — 4 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

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For an ASQA-registered RTO that does not already hold it, adding FWPCOT3325 to scope is a change-of-scope application to ASQA, with a fee set by law: A$200 application fee + A$1,100 assessment fee per application (up to 5 VET courses and 50 units of competency). RTOs registered by a state regulator, and ASQA delegates, sit under other arrangements. Source: NVR Fees Determination 2026, F2026L00814, from 1 July 2026 · read 5 September 2026.

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
FWP — Forest and Wood Products Training Package
Currency period ends
26 January 2022
Latest release
Release 1 · 13 May 2016
Supersedes
FPICOT3259
Superseded by
FWPCOT3325 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. FWPCOT3259Superseded — not equivalentOperate a four wheel drive on unsealed roads
  2. not equivalent
  3. FWPCOT3325CurrentOperate four wheel drive vehicle on unsealed roads

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • FPICOT3259FWPCOT3259equivalent12 May 2016

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • FWPCOT3259FWPCOT3325not equivalent27 January 2022

    Updated unit title. Updated Elements and Performance Criteria. Updated and added new Knowledge Evidence and Performance Evidence. Reworded Foundation Skills. Updated Assessment Conditions

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for FWPCOT3259 and for its training package FWP (release 9.2), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

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Where FWPCOT3259 is used

training.gov.au lists FWPCOT3259 inside 23 training products, 1 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for FWPCOT3259 in that product.

Current products 1 listed

CodeTraining productTypeFWPCOT3259 is
PUA20719Certificate II in Public Safety (Firefighting Operations)Qualificationelective

Products no longer current 22 listed

The register still records FWPCOT3259 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeFWPCOT3259 is
AHC20116Certificate II in AgricultureQualificationelective
AHC20316Certificate II in Production HorticultureQualificationelective
AHC20320Certificate II in Production HorticultureQualificationelective
AHC21016Certificate II in Conservation and Land ManagementQualificationelective
AHC21020Certificate II in Conservation and Ecosystem ManagementQualificationelective
AHC21516Certificate II in FloricultureQualificationelective
AHC30318Certificate III in Rural and Environmental Pest ManagementQualificationelective
AHC31420Certificate III in Conservation and Ecosystem ManagementQualificationelective
AHC31516Certificate III in Indigenous Land ManagementQualificationelective
AHC31616Certificate III in Lands, Parks and WildlifeQualificationelective
Show the remaining 12 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeFWPCOT3259 is
AHC31716Certificate III in Natural Area RestorationQualificationelective
AHC32516Certificate III in Aboriginal Sites WorkQualificationelective
AHC33616Certificate III in Pest ManagementQualificationelective
AHC41716Certificate IV in Pest ManagementQualificationelective
AHC41720Certificate IV in Pest ManagementQualificationelective
FWP20116Certificate II in Forest Growing and ManagementQualificationelective
FWP20316Certificate II in Sawmilling and ProcessingQualificationelective
FWP20516Certificate II in Timber Manufactured ProductsQualificationelective
FWP30116Certificate III in Forest Growing and ManagementQualificationelective
FWP30216Certificate III in Harvesting and HaulageQualificationelective
FWP30316Certificate III in Sawmilling and ProcessingQualificationelective
FWPSS00023Skill set for off road four wheel drive operationsSkill setelective

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 14 October 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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