Re: Ever forget to update your car registration?
[Re: FM3_1970]
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03/09/20 09:35 PM
03/09/20 09:35 PM
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SattyNoCar
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Smarter than no class Flappergass by a mile
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Between Houston & Galveston TX
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I'm not buying it. The report makes no sense. Who's holding the plate? Did the cop take the plate(s)? " He promised to take care of it as soon as he got home, police said." I guess he had to re-register his car?
John
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Re: Ever forget to update your car registration?
[Re: SattyNoCar]
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03/09/20 10:08 PM
03/09/20 10:08 PM
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FM3_1970
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I'm not buying it. The report makes no sense. Who's holding the plate? Did the cop take the plate(s)? " He promised to take care of it as soon as he got home, police said." I guess he had to re-register his car? I left out the last line: Slidell police advised those who like to "switch tags" to at least give officials "a good challenge and don’t use a license plate" that is more than 20 years old. So I'm guessing that the plate didn't actually belong to that car, and his registration wasn't really 23 years out-of-date,and had actually expired fairly recently, but that wouldn't be as funny, so the cops left it out. Again, just guessing, but the plate was probably confiscated and the driver was told to put the right plate on and get the registration squared away. Probably issued a "show" ticket so he had to go back and prove to LEO that he was now in compliance. Or maybe it never happened and the Slidell police just got bored and made the whole thing up.
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Re: Ever forget to update your car registration?
[Re: DrCharles]
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03/09/20 10:57 PM
03/09/20 10:57 PM
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Mr PotatoHead
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Here its a $100 flat fee max for late reg, Last year I did one from 96, got out the door under $200.
Although many years ago I just put on what the DMV lady gave me and for years ran a normal truck plate on a 28k bucket truck, they got all the back fees on that one, 7 years.
Last edited by Mr. Potatohead; 03/09/20 10:59 PM.
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Re: Ever forget to update your car registration?
[Re: BloFish]
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03/10/20 12:43 AM
03/10/20 12:43 AM
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jcc
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In Florida, Semi tags normally expire on Dec 31, if you don't renew the expired tag in 10 days, there is a $500 penalty.
If one decides to renew the expired tag any time in the future, at least the day before you in person surrender the tag to the DMV, and the next day you apply for a whole new tag, which costs about $30 over the pro rata normal renewal cost. I'm sure sometime ln the future they will figure they are letting a chance to screw you slip away.
And driving a Semi with an expired tag is dumber then taking a two week cruise out of a Chinese port of call tomorrow..
Last edited by jcc; 03/10/20 12:46 AM.
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Re: Ever forget to update your car registration?
[Re: Dcuda69]
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03/10/20 08:34 AM
03/10/20 08:34 AM
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RWG75
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RWG75
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It's not unusual for the girl to take her car in for inspection and get told the registration is expired. On the upside, in PA ya can renew it instantly on line. The dumb thing is we never get the renewal notice from the DMV.
In a related stroke of genius they recently did away with the stickers for the plates and will no longer mail you a paper registration. The idea is about cutting costs on their end and ya gotta go print yer own paper doc. They then proceeded to raise the registration cost to help defray the cost of outfitting cop cars with technology that will automatically read your plate and check to see if its valid.
Probably checks for unpaid parking tickets too.
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