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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
I used to live next door to a cop. He told me once that tags that are
seriously out of date raise a giant red flag to any cop who sees them. Call your local Bureau of Motor Vehicles and they'll tell you how to get up-to-date tags. Driving with tags that old isn't worth the risk. |
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On 18 Jul 2006 12:48:06 -0700, "
wrote: I used to live next door to a cop. He told me once that tags that are seriously out of date raise a giant red flag to any cop who sees them. Call your local Bureau of Motor Vehicles and they'll tell you how to get up-to-date tags. Driving with tags that old isn't worth the risk. 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. ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
" wrote:
I used to live next door to a cop. He told me once that tags that are seriously out of date raise a giant red flag to any cop who sees them. Call your local Bureau of Motor Vehicles and they'll tell you how to get up-to-date tags. Driving with tags that old isn't worth the risk. Of course they are red flags. A seriously expired plate usually means the owner doesn't give a damn, so there are probably lots of other things. I used to find the typical scenario was expired plates, safety problems, no insurance and unlicensed or suspended driver. |
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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. A few years ago people could get away with playing dumb sometimes, but these days it is not worth it. |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
On 2006-07-18 19:35:18 -0400, " said:
Here's another point of view - chances are, the cops won't notice. It depends on what state you're coming from. It's doubtful the cops have every state's tags memorized. It actually shouldn't be that hard. Consider New Jersey - they stopped providing registration stickers in 2004. Many people are driving around with tags that appear to have expired in 2004, but in reality they are completely legal. So hey, go for it. Right! Always encourage lawbreaking. |
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ups.com... 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. Any suggestions about what route I should take or how I can avoid getting pulled over? I'm a pretty safe driver, don't speed...going to try and make sure my car is clean and not conspicuous... Should I just stick to major interstates and hope a cop doesn't get close enough to notice? What about smaller, more remote highways and local roads? (Travel time is not a concern...) Does anyone have suggestions about specific states, cities, or roads I should avoid? I've heard plenty about cops in the south being worse about hassling drivers from out of state. I've heard bad things about Lousiana police on I-10, too, and although I won't have to drive very far into LA, I'm concerned about getting nabbed there, where the police will certainly know what color my tag is supposed to be. Has anyone else done this? Any suggestions would be very helpful! Here's another point of view - chances are, the cops won't notice. It depends on what state you're coming from. It's doubtful the cops have every state's tags memorized. It actually shouldn't be that hard. Consider New Jersey - they stopped providing registration stickers in 2004. Many people are driving around with tags that appear to have expired in 2004, but in reality they are completely legal. So hey, go for it. You're absolutely right, most police officers don't care about expired plates if they're from another state. However, most states have what is called a "permit to transport", which you can get from the local DMV. They are most commonly used for people who buy a car in, say, Colorado and want to have it licensed and registered in their home state when they get there, so they get a "permit to transport". I was planning to buy a new car about 10-12 days after my old plates expired. So rather than pay for a whole year on the old car, I decided to walk to work or take the bus until I was ready to buy. I became very keyed to license plates and discovered after only a few trips to work that he heck of a lot of cars have expired tabs. I happened to run into a police officer and asked him about that and he said, "No we see that as the DMV's problem and we won't pull anyone over for expired tags, but, if we pull them over for something else, we'll ticket them for expired tags". So, it's probably different in different jurisdictions. Just this year, I noticed that my tabs were expired and realized that I'd neglected to put them on the car after I got them. I'd been driving around for months with expired tags and was never pulled over. 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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