$571 and change to get the title swapped and new plates on Chuck’s old truck.
They have also upped the amount of paperwork required to one page under the limit of what one horse can chew in one bite without choking to death.
I have never seen that many damn forms that had to be filled out in the 44 years I have been buying and selling vehicles. 60 vehicles and counting so I know of what I speak.
Including, filing for lost titles from a rig with out of state plates, in 3 different states!
In-Fucking-Credible.
Best of all?
The tags are only good for one year and come February next year?
It’s gonna cost me another $150.
Now I get to find out what the insurance is going to run.
“Oh, you have a FOUR WHEEL DRIVE?”
My ass is going to bleed and The Wifely Unit is going to flip the fuck out.
I may wind up sleeping in the damn thing.
You better hope it comes in real handy, real soon.
Stop whining, you should see what it costs in Wyoming. Of course, we don’t pay any income tax over here, but they’ll rape you on the tags.
The whining is absolutely justified. The citizens of this state got sick and tired of getting ass raped by this a couple years ago , to the point they FORCED the legislature to pass a law limiting the price of tags to $32 a year.
The wizards in Olympia IMMEDIATELY went to work finding ways to tack shit back on to that and here we are right back in the exact same place we were before that law got passed like it never fucking happened. The county I live in alone immediately added a forty dollar tax a week after the law passed. We are talking a MULTI BILLION DOLLAR ass raping of the citizens of this state EVERY DAMN YEAR.
Oh you cheap bastard, Phil. Stop trying to deny me ‘public servants’ the only joy they get out of life: making nasty old polluters like you bitch.
I’d be happy to only be paying that little in rego fees.
We pay less than $200 a year in Wyoming for 2 trucks and a suv. You must be in one of the 2 blue counties to be getting raped that bad
Fremont, about as red as can be. $350 last year for our 2016 Ford Expedition.
What are you driving, a Model T?
TN doesnt have state income tax either, but our tag renewals are normally only about 35 on a pickup. This year (2023) all tag renewals were $5. TN has a budget surplus and decided the fairest way to return it to its citizens was to reduce the tag cost to a nominal amount. Oh and they are going to extend the food tax holiday to more weeks this year too.
GO TN!
Washington State kind of charges alot for pretty much everything, does’nt it?
Yes it does and we get shit to show for it.
New Tiny Homes to shelter the homeless and roads so fucked up they will knock your front end out of alignment.
Oh yeah, lets not forget dozens of scams and new anti gun legislation just like clockwork.
Fuckin’ Commies from beginning to end as far as the eyes can see.
come on over to Idaho, we need more folks like yourself, cheaper too.
The recommended uniform style for DMV employees includes a pirate’s eyepatch.
If that rig is old enough, look into getting some sort of vintage or specialty plate on it. Don’t know about your neck of the woods but in Michigan, historic plates run about 30 bucks a year. The cutoff was 25 years but I think they upped it to 30.
Going to get one for my 64 Mercedes if I ever get that sucker running and fixed up. Yeah, you are supposed to limit use and driving, but no one seems to give a crap about it on the LEO side.
I asked about that. It qualifies age wise but they restrict the shit out of what you can do with your rig. It’s for show cars basically. Parades, etc. Can’t haul anything and you can only drive it for pleasure for 500 miles a fucking year. I was going to pull the trigger anyway until I heard that can’t haul shit.
The last thing I need is a ticket for that kind of crap.
I doubt the cops enforce it much but I can always buy those plates next year.
Don’t do it. Just suck it up and go legal. Otherwise you’ll be nervous about hauling anything that might get you pulled over and believe me, The Man knows what they can cite you for and are looking for a reason to do it. In California you can’t haul anything in the bed of a truck w/o commercial plates that wouldn’t fit in the trunk of a car.
In California it’s even illegal to drive a work truck with out of state plates. If the CHP sees a timber faller driving a pickup with Oregon or Montana plates and a chainsaw rack in the bed they’re going to pull you over, inform you of the law and tell you that if he sees you again without CA plates he’s going to cite you. And it’s not a cheap ticket.
It’s just not worth taking a chance over. Plus there’s the nervous factor.
When I bought the 4×4 F-250 and dumped the PoS Dakota on the dealer as trade-in, my insurance didn’t go up much.
When you going to come over to a free state?
The minute Idaho swipes about 13 counties from Oregon.
Not surprised.
That said, You need to crank it up a notch. Yer boney ass needs some chrome 22s. What the hell, your into it for what – $4K, still cheap. GFet some cool rims and tires.
That said, I’m burning with jealosy here.
The old lady went and bought a Lexus GX 460 without so much as a text. After a few months, she realized she didn’t like the sting of the payments. Meanwhile, this is like the 100th time where the gameplan was when a car was paid off, it was my turn. I’d like nothing better than losing the Rav4 I was forced to get. Feel like I need a gottdam sundress on every time I get in it. (It replaced a 2005 sequoia).
So she said we could buy a truck and she’d drive my estrogenmobile. Fine.
None were good enough, and next thing you know, she has a Venza and I lost my leverage. “We looked at trucks, you agreed to this”.
So if that happened to me, I’d never have talked to her.
But that year dodge, with a diesel, and I’d be there. I’d figure out how to pay for it.
12 years ago, both vehicles paid off, wife starts in on how I needed a new truck. Mine was old, I needed to work on it too much, she was worried it would break down, etc. After 2 years of listening to her bitch about it, I finally bought a new truck. Two months later she started in on how she needed a new car. Back to two car payments again.
Got both paid off early, both her and my vehicles are 10 years old and still in good shape, and wouldn’t you know it. “Honey, don’t you think you should get a new truck? That one has a lot of miles on it.” I reckon I can stretch out another year or two before I’m right back in on two car payments again. Shit.
Short her out and buy her’s first. She may leave you alone after that. I can’t imagine buying a new car. They seem like wind up toys now. I’m in a salt free environment, and my 99 suburban works just fine. Only 115K on it.
Get this…
When I first moved to Texas, I was marveling at all the dudes with F-150s. It seemed you were issued one when you moved here back then.
I moved down here over 20 years ago from DC with a wheezy Camry with a 4banger. For most of our marriage, mama-san drove the nice car to cart the kids. I drove a comp’ny car, and then a beater. Seemed like the thing to do.
So I was chatting with my native Texan boss, who was non-plussed. He said “You want an f-150 just go get you one” I told him the old lady would have an issue with that.
He said, what part of that is her business. Go get you one.
I have kind of gotten used to sleeping with both eyes closed.
Nuff said.
Me, too. Don’t want to be woke up by the sound of a chainsaw starting.
“Go get you one” 🙂
Go get your F-150, this is coming from a senior citizen woman. I spent the majority of my life making sure everyone else was happy and not taking care of what I wanted. No more, that ended 12-31-22. I am now doing what I want and buying what I want. Get your F-150!
trucks here in the fucked state of Pa, get charged double what they get for a car.
case in point, a 4 Runner is classed as a car. and that will be 44 bucks
a pickup is 78 or more, per year.
if the founders where alive today, they be stacking bodies like mad.
and as far as property tax goes, you do not get a break until you hit 72.
that is when you no longer have to pay school tax- the biggest part of your tax bill
every damn year !
the power to tax is the power to destroy.
most people lost their homes to the tax man, not the bank in the 1930’s
Around here they make you pay by weight! Even trailers. You have to go find a public scale, pay them, get a receipt and then take it to the DMV so they can look up how much farther they can shove it up your ass.
They considered my old El Camino’s to be trucks.
You should see what the RV costs me each year.
No, you don’t wanna know.
$30 license tags, remember those? Bunch of thieving weasels. They couldn’t wait to start tacking on fees and other costs.
Yeah, I addressed that up above.
Fucking assholes.
“The Wifely Unit is going to flip the fuck out.”
^ Is this something she needs to know at this time? Seriously, wait six months and do a, “oh btw, I forgot to mention………”
Naw, she is going to have to call them and add it to our policy so I can get a proof of insurance card. She takes care of all of that kind of shit.
One more reason I love her although it irritates the shit out of her when I tell her to add one, take one off, put this one under comprehensive and put that one back on all the time.
BOHICA! They get ya coming and going don’t they?
Washington State goes out of their way to BOHICA you every time you do something or turn around.
Idaho is looking better and better…
fun fact. it philly, they no longer pull “brothers” over for no plates or bad tags
or anything they will hammer your ass for.
and they “passed” that like 2 years ago in the summer of love with Floyd of fentanyl . I wonder if it goes for the whole state now ?
you know little things like lights that work, having a muffler. or just a ride that is together somewhat. had a friend from your state hang out with me for about 2 years back in philly. I got him a job and inside of a couple of months living there. he asked why I didn’t join the Klan or start a chapter nearby like. granted that was back in the early 1990’s and the brothers where not as bad as they act out now. he just lost that liberal feeling living there with the brothers. funny how that work out now ?
but, you as a white boy, they pull your ass over in a heartbeat for stupid shit.
Here in GA the tag fee is $20. Where they get you is the one time Title Ad Valorem Tax when you first register you vehicle. It starts at 5% but can be increased by the county. I have 3 neighbors that moved in over the past 3 years One family from Texas, one from New York, and one from California. All have lived here more than a year and they still have their expired tags on their vehicles from where they came. These are all fairly new luxury vehicles so it would be a big bill.
State income taxes or not they will get their pound of flesh.
Oh Phil, Phil, Phil. Where is your sense of patriotic community pride? Just think of all the help you are providing for all of the fine upstanding bureaucratic oligarchs! (Makes me think of Judy Collins Marat Sade song.)
Fix up that money pit Dodge as much as you can on the cheap, give it a serious detailing and put on Hemmings for 12K and see what happens. Put the crane in your Chevy first though.
Here in Montana you can permanently register the vehicle if its over ten years old. One-time registration fee and then you never buy another set of tags again. Ever. It amounts to about two or three years of normal registration. I have a 2009 Ford Ranger and I think it cost me around $300 to permanently register it.
I renewed my tags today. I’m driving a 13 year old CRV. My state bases the renewal fees based on weight which they take from the vehicle specs. Cost me just south of $130.00.
Up until 20 years ago, the registration fee was $35.00 per year. Then the stupid voters in this state elected a Demonrat governor and every fee went through the roof.
Then there’s real estate taxes, which have always been high here as we have no state income or sales tax. So, they have to fund the bloated .gov somehow. The current gov is a RINO, so every bright idea coming from the Demonrats mostly gets passed adding some bureaucratic bloat which we were doing just fine without, even though we have an R majority in both houses.
I’m continually shaking my head at what comes out of the legislature in this state that was a nice place to live 47 years ago when I moved here from a widely known commie run state to the south.
There’s no where left to run to, so I guess I’m staying here. I’m too damn old to be pulling up roots anyway.
Come east, young man, come east. Tags are lower, so is insurance. Life is so much more live and let live, much more connected, and I love telling my Seattle friends how so much more diverse things are here, which is VERY important to them, than in the oh-so-progressive white enclaves they live in. And a real big difference is that everyone here works for a living and doesn’t look around for excuses for their own screw ups. Don’t try to tell Mamacita why it’s all Fred’s or Juan’s fault. Folks here cowboy up and make things right.
And who knows, we might just end up being part of Idaho one day.
But, but, but…………it’s got a huge warning label on the front and back and probably both sides too! D O D G E You think that sprite was a problem………you ain’t seen nuthin yet! Go with God my son, you’re gonna need him.