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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
I've never been pulled over (they never had a reason to)
I'm about as law-abiding as they come, but it's still possible to come under police attention due to bad luck or whatever. When I was a college student, I was driving back to my dorm when 2 police cars boxed me in, and the police stepped out with their hands on their guns. Turned out that a violent felon had just been spotted in that neighborhood in a car similar to mine. After being frisked and locked in the back of a cruiser for several minutes, the police realized I wasn't the guy and apologized, but obviously it shook me up. A more recent (and much less dramatic) incident occured about 5 years ago, when a highway patrol officer followed me closely for about 10 minutes for no apparent reason. (Yes, I'm sure he was following me.) I assume he was running my plates, but I have no idea why as I wasn't speeding or anything. Probably he just picked me at random. My point is that you never know when you might come under police attention. Even good drivers can have it happen occasionally. Jim |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
Arif Khokar wrote: I'm still not sure how they determine the month for custom plates. In WV all vanity plates expire in January. The first year you get one you pay a pro-rate fee to take you to January. All orginization plates (NASCAR, clubs, college alumni plates, etc) expire in July. Same deal. Since there is NOTHING on the plate that says this a person in could get a custom plate with a 2007 sticker and, if they drove out of state where cops don't know the system, drive until December 2007 with an apparently current year sticker. SP Cook |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
On 18 Jul 2006 19:33:50 -0700, "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"... Which is done apparently. They may also put in the numbers at gas stations, fast food places, hotels, etc. |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
You should be paying for Comprehensive insurance, covering damage to YOUR car. But you shouldn't be paying for Liability insurance, which covers you for damage you do to OTHER cars or people. I dont know exactly what I have, but it is the minimum for massachusetts and only costs about a thousand bucks a year...... Chuck |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
"H.B. Elkins" wrote in message
... On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:25:32 GMT, Carole Allen wrote: Only fair, as those fees help to maintain the roads the deadbeat with the expired plates has been using. This may be confusing the registration, which is a fixed fee every year, and property taxes on the vehicle, which go down every year (assuming the rate stays the same) as the vehicle depreciates. It's likely that the OP will only have to pay the current year's registration, but will be liable for back taxes in the intervening years between when the vehicle was last registered and when it is registered again. Yes, plus some states give hefty fines for letting your tags expire, others require you to pay a fee for cars not being driven and becoming unregistered. I'm beginning to think he should trade the car in and drive another to Louisiana! ;-) KM -- (-:alohacyberian:-) At my website there are 3600 live cameras or visit NASA, the Vatican, the Smithsonian, the Louvre, CIA, FBI or CNN, NBA, the White House, Academy Awards & 150 foreign languages Visit Hawaii, Israel and mo http://keith.martin.home.att.net/ |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
"Doug Smith W9WI" wrote in message
... 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. Yes, he does. Just because you didn't put the sticker on the plate, doesn't mean you don't have it. I neglected to put my sticker on this year and drove around for months with the sticker in the glove compartment. And in many states, stickers are stolen regularly. KM -- (-:alohacyberian:-) At my website there are 3600 live cameras or visit NASA, the Vatican, the Smithsonian, the Louvre, CIA, FBI or CNN, NBA, the White House, Academy Awards & 150 foreign languages Visit Hawaii, Israel and mo http://keith.martin.home.att.net/ |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
"B Vaughan" wrote in message
... 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. Me, either, but, it's different in different states. For instance, in Hawaii, you can't get a valid registration without showing a safety check and a valid insurance card. KM -- (-:alohacyberian:-) At my website there are 3600 live cameras or visit NASA, the Vatican, the Smithsonian, the Louvre, CIA, FBI or CNN, NBA, the White House, Academy Awards & 150 foreign languages Visit Hawaii, Israel and mo http://keith.martin.home.att.net/ |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
"Paul S. Wolf" wrote in message
... You should be paying for Comprehensive insurance, covering damage to YOUR car. But you shouldn't be paying for Liability insurance, which covers you for damage you do to OTHER cars or people. Most states won't let you get comprehensive without liability. Even if you aren't driving it, some yo-yo can ride his skateboard into your car and claim the mirror injured him. ;-) KM -- (-:alohacyberian:-) At my website there are 3600 live cameras or visit NASA, the Vatican, the Smithsonian, the Louvre, CIA, FBI or CNN, NBA, the White House, Academy Awards & 150 foreign languages Visit Hawaii, Israel and mo http://keith.martin.home.att.net/ |
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