On 25 Jun 2003 18:35:40 -0700, mrducky92@braindamage.org (Mr Ducky)
wrote:
I recently bought a new car and will soon be taking it on a trip outof state. Unfortunately, where I live (California) new cars don'tinclude license plates. Instead you get a little scrap of paper andthe plates arrive several months later in the mail. Will this be aproblem for me in other, non-California, states? Am I going to getstopped for not having licence plates? Would it help if I brought/usedthe plates from my other car? (which will be parked at home)

Don't do that, you would be inviting arrest.

There is nothing illegal about driving with temporary plates, which
are what you DO get when you buy the car.

"DTJ" <nospaming@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:q8osfv4907bimfbl38runfvsc3tnhirihr@4ax.com... On 25 Jun 2003 18:35:40 -0700, mrducky92@braindamage.org (Mr Ducky) wrote:I recently bought a new car and will soon be taking it on a trip outof state. Unfortunately, where I live (California) new cars don'tinclude license plates. Instead you get a little scrap of paper andthe plates arrive several months later in the mail. Will this be aproblem for me in other, non-California, states? Am I going to getstopped for not having licence plates? Would it help if I brought/usedthe plates from my other car? (which will be parked at home) Don't do that, you would be inviting arrest. There is nothing illegal about driving with temporary plates, which are what you DO get when you buy the car.

Only caution that I would add (from experience) is to apply for you new
plates ASAP. Temporary or "transit" plates are intended to get you where
you're going and to permit you to drive until you can get regular plates.
They're not intended to be long-term substitutes for the real thing.


Paul R

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 15:23:04 GMT, "Paul R" <nospam@nospam.please>
wrote:
"DTJ" <nospaming@attbi.com> wrote in messagenews:q8osfv4907bimfbl38runfvsc3tnhirihr@4ax .com... On 25 Jun 2003 18:35:40 -0700, mrducky92@braindamage.org (Mr Ducky) wrote:I recently bought a new car and will soon be taking it on a trip outof state. Unfortunately, where I live (California) new cars don'tinclude license plates. Instead you get a little scrap of paper andthe plates arrive several months later in the mail. Will this be aproblem for me in other, non-California, states? Am I going to getstopped for not having licence plates? Would it help if I brought/usedthe plates from my other car? (which will be parked at home) Don't do that, you would be inviting arrest. There is nothing illegal about driving with temporary plates, which are what you DO get when you buy the car.Only caution that I would add (from experience) is to apply for you newplates ASAP. Temporary or "transit" plates are intended to get you whereyou're going and to permit you to drive until you can get regular plates.They're not intended to be long-term substitutes for the real thing.Paul R

Correct. In Illinois your temporary paperwork is the license that is
given WHEN you apply.

How very odd, but then it is California. I can tell you that in Texas he
would get stopped a lot.


"Matthew Hunt" <mph@wopr.caltech.edu> wrote in message
news:bdn4gs$4ig$2@naig.caltech.edu... In article <svDLa.27948$0v4.2100756@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, Paul R <nospam@nospam.please> wrote: Only caution that I would add (from experience) is to apply for you new plates ASAP. Temporary or "transit" plates are intended to get you where you're going and to permit you to drive until you can get regular
plates. They're not intended to be long-term substitutes for the real thing. Since he said he bought a new car, the dealership should take care of the paperwork. Despite that, the DMV is not particularly swift about issuing plates. Delays of two or three months are common. Since this thread is cross-posted outside of ca.driving, some
clarification is probably in order for the non-Californians. You don't get temporary plates here like you do in other states. The dealership will put a license-plate-sized ad for themselves in the plate frames, but these have no official meaning and do nothing to identify the car. They don't have a number written on them or anything. Instead, some DMV paperwork is folded up and taped to the inside of the windshield. This will identify the car, but isn't useful until you've actually been pulled over (so the cop can unfold and read the paperwork). It is useless from a distance. I'm sure that cops on I-15 between the Nevada border and Las Vegas, for example, are familiar with this practice. But if you drove to, say, Minnesota, they might be more inclined to pull you over for lack of
plates. Hopefully the paperwork on the windshield would suffice, but it could
still be a hassle if they keep pulling you over.