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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
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. Most states do use renewal stickers. Stickers are usually colour coded as a secondary means of identifying the expiry date in addition to the month and year on the sticker. In Ontario they use a sequence of colours, with white backgrounds and coloured alpha numerics and then revers it to coloured backgrounds with white alpha numerics. You can try to peel a sticker of a valid plate and stick it on your expired plate. You can try using paint or ink to forge a valid looking sticker. You can smear something on the sticker to make it less obvious. It doesn't really matter because officers punch in a lot of plates, especially if they are working in pairs. If you get caught with expired plates you get charged for the expired plates. If you get caught with an improper validation sticker you end up with two tickets, one for the expired plates and one for the second offence committed to try to hide the first one. |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
Arif Khokar wrote:
Try driving through Summersville, WV with out-of-state tags. A front plate is a dead giveaway there. I did. They never bothered me... |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:25:32 GMT, Carole Allen wrote:
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. 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. -- To reply by e-mail, remove the "restrictor plate" |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
sechumlib wrote:
I gather you see no difference between slightly exceeding the speed limit and driving without a valid registration or insurance. Both the same scope of offense, right? I used to see all sorts of driver conviction records. Speeding tends to be the single most common infraction on records and it is not uncommon to see only speeding tickets, or maybe one or two thrown in for failing to yield and failing to wear a seatbelt. But when you see convictions for things like expired plates there are usually a lot of other violations listed too. It's easy to speed, and it's easy to develop other bad habits. When it comes to things like valid licences, permits and insurance, there are some people who just don't give a damn. There are a lot of people driving around with suspended licences, and most of them have long multiple violations on their records, and for a variety of things. In other words.... I don't doubt that someone could only have speeding convictions on their record, and I certainly don't doubt that someone with a record for driving with expired plates also has speeding violations on their record. |
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Hatunen wrote: 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. This would imply that every car must be registered every year it exists, whether in storage, on the road, or whatever. What state has these laws? |
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Driving cross country with expired tags - how to avoid police?
On 19 Jul 2006 11:32:18 GMT, John F. Carr wrote:
In article .com, 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"... Some of them do that. In my former job as a newspaper editor, we kept a police scanner in the office so we could keep track of what was going on in case there was something we needed to cover. One of the frequencies was for the Kentucky State Police. I was absent-mindedly listening one day when the officers called in a plate number on the Mountain Parkway in Clark County and my ears perked up when I heard them report that the truck was a 1990 Chevy belonging to my dad! He had forgotten to put his renewal sticker on his license plate. The police had noticed it and called in the license number. When they found out that the plate was current, they didn't pull him over. Next time I saw him, I asked him if he went to Winchester that day. He laughed and said yes and asked how I knew. When I told him about it, he told me that he remembered a trooper following him for awhile but then they went ahead and passed him without pulling him over. However, one year my renewal sticker didn't stick to the plate because it was damp and I just kept it stapled to my registration receipt. One night a state trooper stopped me on my way home from work and asked about the expired plate. I told him what had happened and showed him the sticker, which of course made everything OK. I did end up getting a replacement sticker, but I found it odd that he didn't call my plate number in but instead decided to pull me over. Could have been that my dad was traveling on a four-lane iin the daytime and I was on a rural road at night, and on a road that links a dry county to a wet one. Maybe he thought he could get a DUI if he stopped me for expired tags. -- To reply by e-mail, remove the "restrictor plate" |
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