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Originally posted by Dwill104:
When I get a new sticker, I just put it on immediately. There isn’t any reason not to.

Come on up North, I’ll introduce you to 20” of reason. Those little stickers? They shatter somewhere around 15 degrees.

I got pulled over a few years ago for expired plates. They expired 2 years ago and I'd assumed I'd renewed them. My drivers license expired a few weeks earlier and I didn't have a current insurance card with me. The Trifecta!.

No ticket but I did have to prove insurance at the courthouse. When I renewed my registration, I only had to pay for the current year. Crazy.

For those asking, when I was policing I looked for those expired tags/stickers and pulled them over. When we got computers in the car and could run them quickly I’d run the tag before making a traffic stop-if the tag was good in the computer but the owner forgot to put it on, I’d just let it go and not stop the car.

I worked in the hood and any reason to stop a car was looked for as we served a lot of warrants on people in cars…they never lived where they told you they lived and you could never find them walking around. But people ride in cars. I’d say 90% plus of the warrants I served were from people in cars as drivers or passengers.

/drift

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

Yeah, having joinder created is... arguably much worse. Especially inside your property, in full view of the public for private means rather that commercial. You don't want that.

^^^^^
There's an app for that...
https://joinderapp.com/

I have probably gone a year or more with expired registration- just didn’t notice it.

But a more interesting story is from when I had no drivers license. Back in the day, when you got a speeding ticket, they would confiscate your driver’s license and give you a temporary license- form was on a perforated stub on the bottom of the ticket- and had your court date on it. I got a ticket while out of town, and missed the court date- it was out of town and someone was trying to get the ticket “fixed” for me. So I was driving with no driver’s license on me, and certainly with a bench warrant out due to failure to appear.

I drove extremely carefully for probably six months, until one day I took a right turn across a couple of lanes of traffic without “occupying” each lane for a satisfactory amount of time- and I got pulled over. I told the cop that I had forgotten my wallet, but I thought I knew my drivers license number. I gave him my number with the last two digits reversed, thinking it would look like an honest mistake if I got caught. (doesn’t really make sense now that I think about it).

Well he ran my drivers license number (that I gave him) and said that it came back to someone from my home town, but not me. I said “that’s where I’m from- but that’s not me.” Now my vehicle registration was up to date and he ran the plate and it came back to me, so everything mostly looked good. Thank God they had a computer issue when he requested my license info by my name, and they couldn’t access it. He was frustrated and pissed that he couldn’t get it, and let me go with a warning.

One of my luckier days.

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Originally posted by honestlou:

I told the cop that I had forgotten my wallet, but I thought I knew my drivers license number. I gave him my number with the last two digits reversed

Neat trick. I'll have to try it. Last two digits of my number are 11.

bought new vehicle last july. on phone with insurance to put vehicle on policy and have proof sent for finance dept at dealer. all good. 6 months later we sell the vehicle that the new one replaced. was cancelling insurance and saw that the new vehicle had neither comp or collision on it. immediately called insurance and straightened that at. for 6 months we drove a brand new vehicle, financed, with no insurance. no letters on it from anyone. good thing no accidents happened. that could have been very costly on our part. despite finance paper showing coverage you know damn well insurance company would have done their best to deny any claims. check those policies.

I hope that you’re flying legally.

I lost my license in NY back in the mid Seventies for too many speeding tickets in my Dodge Challenger. Put the car up, and continued to drive my plumbing work van for that year, no problems.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

I hope that you’re flying legally.

The FARs (Federal Aviation Regulations) are numerous and complex.

I have often heard it said that there is at least one violation, usually unintentional, in every flight.

Right now the new sticker is in the car, unattached to the window. I guess that I should go out with a scraper and update the sticker. I once drove a year without switching to the new sticker.

Texas has one month of forgiveness. So if I were to delay the renewal for one monrh for thirteen years then I could get one freebie.

Sometime in the early 2000s I found out my VA DL had been suspended for several months. I don’t remember how I found out, never got a letter from the DMV or anything. I think maybe my insurance contacted me or something. I went down to the DMV and found VA automatically suspended my license due to a 33 point ticket in GA being transferred into their system. Obviously there was some sort of a data transfer or human input error on a 3 point ticket I had gotten (speeding, paid on time and resolved) several years before. That was a pita to sort out, and the DMV was obstinate about the whole thing and never once even acknowledged that this was clearly a system error. Even when I did finally get it sorted out I had to pay around $60 to get my license reinstated. I still remember asking the DMV rep to explain to me what traffic violation could possibly be 33 points and getting nothing but a dead eye stare back from the drone at the counter.

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Originally posted by Whisp:

I still remember asking the DMV rep to explain to me what traffic violation could possibly be 33 points and getting nothing but a dead eye stare back from the drone at the counter.