License Plates Wanted!

[ScottyBoy]

So y'all have to get new plates with every vehicle?

I could have used the old ones, but the front one was tore up. As long as you sell the car/truck, you can transfer the old plates over.

Yup, need a front plate here too.

Front plates suck. I'm glad I don't need one here. And I guess all the states have different ways of doing the plates and registration. Here in LA you register a vehicle and get a plate and registration. When you sell the vehicle you have to turn the plate in to the DMV (or get a fine). If you can't give the plate to the DMV, you have to fill out forms and affidavits saying the plate was lost, stolen, destroyed, or accidently left on the vehicle when it was sold. Also, anytime you cancel insurance on a vehicle, you have ten days to give the plate to the DMV or you get a VERY hefty fine. You get a new plate and registration every time you get a new vehicle. The only exception is prestige/personalized plates. You can transfer those to your new vehicle.

 

[Zembonez]

That's pretty intense plate law Scotty.

 

[RebelThunder]

That's pretty intense plate law Scotty.

Sounds way over the top to me

 

[ScottyBoy]

That's pretty intense plate law Scotty.

I think its mainly to enforce the insurance law. If you have no insurance, you shouldn't have a plate on the vehicle (so it should be undriveable). But its a hell of a lot of headaches. You can actually own and register a vehicle with no insurance, but you can't get a plate without insurance. So say you buy a car thats a project vehicle that you won't be driving, you can register it with no insurance, but you can't get a plate. But once you get it driveable, then you have to get insurance and go back to the DMV with your ins card to get a plate. They are so strict on having proof of insurance it frikkin unreal. If you switch ins companies, the policy you drop will notify the state that you dropped coverage. The state will then send you a letter stating that unless you come to the DMV and show proof that you got new coverage within 10 days of dropping the old coverage, you get a fine. Then get this: the fines are ridiculous. your 1st cancellation or lapse is a $150 fine, 2nd is $250, 3rd and each one after is a $500 fine! One time the DMV got their paperworl screwed up and confused one of my insurance cancellation on a vehicle I sold with one I still had. When I tried to explain their mixup, they didn't even wanna listen to me they just kept saying "Sir you need to pay this $150 fine, and thats all there is to it." I got so angry I demanded to see a supervisor. I even had a receipt showing I turned in the plate for the vehicle I sold, yet their computer was showing that the ins cancellation was on my cutlass (my current vehicle at the time) . I was even on the phone with my ins agent having him get ready to fax proff that I never had any lapse on the cutlass. They finally figured their mistake after reading thru every event on file and every plate number associated with each event. It was simply a clerical error, yet I got no apology for their mistake and having to take a day off work and sit in the DMV for 4 hours. But thats the state of Louisiana for ya.

 

[Zembonez]

Good old government. Punish the people who obey the law by making it difficult. What do they think they are... Canada?

 

[Moeman]

Good old government. Punish the people who obey the law by making it difficult. What do they think they are... Canada?

Eazy big guy...

 

[Zembonez]

LOL! I've seen the gun laws up there. WOW!

 

[Moeman]

What's wrong with them.

 

[Carneyman]

I'm gonna start collecting money. If anyone has any odd, unusual, or even plain money they don't mind parting with, I will be willing to take it off your hands. PM me for my address!

 

[Moeman]

I'm gonna start collecting money. If anyone has any odd, unusual, or even plain money they don't mind parting with, I will be willing to take it off your hands. PM me for my address!

I have some Canuck money.Does that count?