It can't be the fault of the DMV...

[coltle6920]

I have a habit of looking at the license plate of the vehicle in front of me. This happens most often at a traffic light. No, I don't tailgate people.

It amazes me at the number of people whose vehicle shows a registration sticker over a year old and sometimes even older. The Pandemic didn't stop me from registering my truck. Didn't stop me from getting the emissions test done either.

I even see vehicles with temp tags that are past the allotted time to have received your new plates. One vehicle was 18mos. past the date. I know during the pandemic LEO's would let your registration slide but I think we're past that grace period or should be.

Is it an issue of license plate production? Did we let too many prisoners out of jail without thought for the repercussions? Anyone else see what I see?

The DMV has it's flaws but leave it to the average citizen to exploit them.

 

[6518John]

Do you punch bug too?

 

[Rustyt1953]

Ruthie drives so I normally have a pillowcase over my head.

 

[Rudi]

Covid put a huge dent in everything, fear. I saw some moron today with studded tires on, they were supposed to go away on April 1st. Hasn't snowed here since Christmas.

 

[sigp220.45]

Many police departments now prohibit their officers from making stops for minor offenses like expired plates and tail lights being out. This is in response to complaints that these are pretext stops.

My NOPD kid spends his whole shift answering calls for service, some of them hours old. His rank would hit the roof if he was calling in expired plate stops.

 

[LVSteve]

This issue is endemic in Las Vegas to the point it simply isn't discussed. You have a (mostly) single industry city that laid off most of its staff pretty much overnight. After two or three months I would say 75% of the stops called in by NHP that I heard on the scanner involved an expired tag and/or insurance. How many of these cases involved a citation or anybody going to court I cannot say. How many could pay the fines? Are you going to lock up that mass of people for unpaid registration and fines? Probably not.

Funny you should bring this up today. A stop last night was on a car with a temp plate that expired November 2020 if I heard it right.

 

[Golddollar]

PA eliminated the date stickers for license plates.

 

[Smithboomer]

New York also got rid of date stickers years ago.

 

[Truckman]

New York also got rid of date stickers years ago.

Texas also...I can't remember how many years ago that was......Ben

 

[NYlakesider]

New York also got rid of date stickers years ago.

Heck I'm old enough I can remember when that "sticker" was actually a piece of metal you had to have attached to the plate bottom with the screw that held plate to vechicle!-

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

PA eliminated the date stickers for license plates.

Ohio not only has a Month and year sticker (lower right corner of rear plate) but also a county of residence sticker. there are two types, a name of county , in the center of the plate or a number in the bottom left corner of plate. If you use 2 plates the county sticker is required to be on both.

Ohio repealed the requirement to use a front plate. I have removed mine. Since I have an all black pick-up, I'm looking for a yellow on black Batman plate, just like Golddollar! (I want to be cool too!)

Ivan

 

[coltle6920]

PA eliminated the date stickers for license plates.

Left Pa. in 1988 so I don't know what has changed but it seems they are still stiff on vehicle registration even though a sticker is no longer needed.

Wouldn't want to be pulled over for an unrelated reason and not have current registration.

 

[Golddollar]

Ohio repealed the requirement to use a front plate. I have removed mine. Since I have an all black pick-up, I'm looking for a yellow on black Batman plate, just like Golddollar! (I want to be cool too!)

Ivan

Go for it!!!

 

[CH4]

For the California Highway Patrol, 4000a exp reg) violations are treated like felonies; it's their primary source of revenue.

For me, 4000a stops led to many felony arrests.

 

[DWalt]

Texas dropped the registration year stickers on license plates sometime back in the early 1990s. Problem was that certain people would peel them off the license plates of parked cars and put them on their expired license plates. Many car owners would take a single edge razor blade and crosshatch slice their year stickers so they couldn't be peeled off in one piece by thieves. Technically, that was illegal but most everyone did it anyway, and it was effective. It was replaced by an expiration month and year registration sticker that sticks to the inside of the windshield. See the picture in #9 above. Texas does have a five-day grace period for expired registration stickers, but I don't know if it is enforced.

Back in my younger days in Ohio, you had to get new metal license plates every year, and every year the color scheme changed. So it was very easy for the cops to spot an expired license plate. It also made a lot of work to keep the prison inmates busy.

 

[Onomea]

What I notice in Oregon, on the roads and highways around Portland, is the to me amazing number of cars with no plates at all.

Sometimes with these I'll see a temp tag for a newly purchased car in the rear window, but, not infrequently, just nothing at all...

Was driving a new car in Boulder last year. Noticed a cop following me for a while. Since I was minding my own business, and he wasn't trying to pull me over, I ignored him. Later, back at my hotel, loading the rear of the car with luggage, I realized my temp tag had fallen off. Bummed some scotch tape from the front desk to tape it on more firmly for the trip back to Oregon.

 

[ladder13]

Some depts around here are 20% or more understaffed.

With all sorts of crime on the rise, I doubt they have time to check license plate bulbs.

 

[Nevada Ed]

I sent my $$$ and data by mail for a new plate on 4/29/2022........

5/11/2022 and it has not arived yet.

I'm not going to stop driving on 5/16 .........................

 

[GypsmJim]

New York also got rid of date stickers years ago.

Yes and no. The date stickers are now on the windshield, and the colors change every year. The pandemic actually made it all easier - now just do everything by mail.

And the police DO check windows and ticket as needed.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

We don't need no stinking tags... license... citizenship... permit... safety sticker...