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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
Dave Smith wrote: Hatunen wrote: I believe getting current tags usually involves paying registration fees for the years tags weren't obtained, which in some states and for some cars can amount to a fair piece of money. Sometimes it also involves safety certification or emissions testing. In most states and provinces it would also require payment of outstanding fines. Anyone thinking about driving around with switched plates or expired plates should be aware of the technology available to police officers and their on board computers. The enforcement agency I worked for was not exactly at the cutting edge of technology, but I could punch in a licence plate from any Canadian province and US state and in 2-3 seconds it would display a vehicle description and identify the owner. If it was a plate from this province it would automatically display the owner's driver licence number and was flagged if he was under suspension or currently unlicensed. For commercial vehicles, the company's safety violation rate was immediately displayed. There were all sorts of hyper linked fields to access driver conviction records etc. I assume you'd still have to do something to get the cop's attention in order to prompt them to punch in the number. Unless they're literally bringing up license plate info as they drive around "just for the fun of it"... A few years ago people could get away with playing dumb sometimes, but these days it is not worth it. |
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I want to know 4 things: I'm going to be driving from Washington, DC to northern Louisiana with an LA license plate that expired a couple of years ago. 1. Why? Insurance and driver's license are okay. 2. Who underwrites insurance on an unregistered car on public roads with illegal plates? 3. Are you a troll? 4. If you're "bright enough" to think up this plan, how do you think you'll be able to find your way to Louisiana? |
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:09:34 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
I believe getting current tags usually involves paying registration fees for the years tags weren't obtained, which in some states and for some cars can amount to a fair piece of money. Only fair, as those fees help to maintain the roads the deadbeat with the expired plates has been using. |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
Mike Tantillo wrote:
I assume you'd still have to do something to get the cop's attention in order to prompt them to punch in the number. Unless they're literally bringing up license plate info as they drive around "just for the fun of it"... Doesn't Louisiana use renewal stickers? (I thought all 50 states did?) Around here, (Tennessee) when you first get your plate they put a sticker on it, showing what month it expires - it might say "JUL" in large letters. You get another sticker that might say "2006", showing that it expires at the end of July, 2006. When you renew, you get a sticker that says "2007", you stick it over the top of "2006" to show the plate is valid for another year. The procedure is identical in Wisconsin. An officer doesn't have to get very close to be able to read both stickers, and if he does he knows the plate is (or isn't) expired. He doesn't have to run it through the computer to know. -- Doug Smith W9WI Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66 http://www.w9wi.com |
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:28:17 -0400, "Paul S. Wolf"
wrote: On 7/18/2006 11:03 AM, wrote: I'm going to be driving from Washington, DC to northern Louisiana with an LA license plate that expired a couple of years ago. Insurance and driver's license are okay. If the car isn't currently registered, then the insurance is probably void, too. I've never been able to get insurance without showing a valid registration. -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my last name at libero dot it. |
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