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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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