In OH, my truck was about $55 and my enclosed cargo trailer was about $25.

 

My '04 NC "weighted" tags for the truck are $162 for 15K GVW. The travel trailer tags are $12.

I ran the 99 truck with 4k GVW passenger tags for 4 years and pulled the travel trailer every where and never a problem. Yes, I was over weight (on the tags I was running) even without the trailer hooked but frankly, I didn't care. Law enforcement never bothered stopping me and if they did, they could have slapped a fat fine on me.

NC wised up for '04 and began collecting license tag fees probably +quadruple in amounts over previous years. They began looking at VIN numbers for GVW and now issue these weighted tags for vehicles over 4K GVW. My tags prior to '04 were $21. I dislike paying $162, but I'm legal now and won't get an over weight ticket (which is likely more than the tag fees) in the event I get pulled.

AW

 

My truck was purchased and originally licensed in Illinois. Dealer ordered plain ol' license plates for it. Forget the Class B and C stuff.

 

Montana the truck taxible Licensed GCVW has to cover the weight of the trailer and the truck. The GVW rating for the truck is only important when they are trying to write you a ticket for being overweight on an axle of the truck.

Go figure.

Id go for the C plates that covers your truck axle ratings and then while your in the county court house check and see about upping your GCVW licensing. At least in montana like i said it was two seperate issues that they dont help you find out about.

 

Here in the great state of Tenn. unless it's comm. you don't have to have weight tags! My tag for my trailer were $90.00 for life. Personal plates for my truck were $26.00. I haul nursery stock for people usually in excess of 28000lbs as long as they believe I'm hauling for a friend all is good if not I get fined $150 and usually if you show proof of getting your tags they will waive the fine. 32000lb plates are about $650 so I'm going to run personal plates until I get caught then I will dole out my hard earned money for plates!! As much as we pay in fuel taxes I have a hard time giving them more $$$$

 

20,000 pound registered plates. Have pulled up to 26,000 on occassion. Wanted to go to 26,000 but DMV wouldn't let me. Normally pull around 21,000.

 

Supergewl- Thanks man! You deserve this small recognition(DAV plates) for your sacrifice and lots more. Thankfully I spent 21 years in the Army without a disabling injury. I retired with MOS 11B5MX if you remember the codes.

 

Gentleman I have been corrected on the subject of Tags by my friendly DOT officer tonight. After pulling me over he was kind enough to point out my personal tags were good for 9000lbs. Unfortunately I was loaded with 29000lbs. of trees! He assured me he could charge me a nickle a pound over 9000lbs plus 3%. Lucky for me he was a nice guy! If he suspected I was hauling these for profit he would have been happy to charge me about $1135. So needless to say tomorrow as soon as I get back from Atlanta dropping these off I will be at the county clerks office! This is exactly what Haulin in Dixie has talked about tomorrow same truck same trailer same trees different plates what the **** has this got to do with safety??? Not a thing it's MONEY!
Have a nice day

 

Jeremy,

I posted about this awhile back and didn't get a concrete reply.

My understanding was that you needed plates for what you planned to haul. Commercial or not. Most pickups have "B" plates it seems. But you're right, the 1-ton would easily go into "C" catagory.

My Uncle has a electrician business with some 1-ton vans, he gets occasional hassle about the "B" plates he has on them. Independent of weight being carried, they just seem to think "1 ton = C". But that's commercial.

It would be much appriciated if you could share what you find out!

Steve

 

I think many people get confused and start throughing the word "commecial" around. Forget commercial on your pick-up. It comes down to your truck needs to be licensed for atleast the max GVW of the truck, some state require it to be for the GCVW.

I believe that IL is the same as WI here. So if you have 8000# plates and your truck is over 8000 when loaded it is illegal. This subject seems to get confued alot and it really isn't that confusing. I think people think that cause it isn't for commercial use that it doesn't matter, well it does, same rules apply. They are just more likely to nail you to the wall if you are commercial.

 

MM, we don t have weight on reg for gcvw. It doesn t exist. The highest they license a 1 ton dualie is 11k. The gvw. If it goes to another state, is it overweight? If towing..........I don t thiink thats the Nevada state plan, but a trooper in another state may not se it that way. As I understand it if you are licensed and registered legal for your home state, then it is a fed agreement for other states to honer your home states laws. This goes out the window of course on lenght limits, hieght etc, due to state construction roadway pratices but otherwise is the way it is. If Im legal in NV and live in NV then Im legal in california as long as Im not breaking the vehicle code.

Am I right? Or way way...way wrong...

 

They issued me a set of B plates. If I get pulled over, I'll argue the fact.

 

Yes they are suppse to go by the state that you are registed in, unless you are commecial, then you register to what ever the federal commecial laws are from my understanding.

Sound like WI is the same as their, you register the truck for the trucks GVW and the trailer for its GVW. I have my Dually registered for 12,000# and the trailer for 26,000#

I have heard that you can put a flat bed on your truck and register it as a tractor also, this changes the regulations on how you register.

 

My trailer reg doesn t even have a gvw.....it shows a unladen weight....of 1500lbs.....which is funny because empty it comes in at 9200......

I guess then the weight sticker on the trailer takes over....

Last time I was at the dmv.....I asked the same question to 4 people, (2 of them were together so really only three. All had to tell me to wait and go ask someone else in a back room. I m pretty sure that no matter what......they have no clue.

 

Well good luck but it is up to you to put the correct plates on. My dealer was going to do B's also, told him I wanted 12,000# plates. He said he had never got plates that heavy before, and they sell trucks all the time.