Urgent RMV issue for Massachusetts Car Guys

[tubman]

I think it has more to do with the machines that make make the license plates rather than some "computer programmer". They are set up to make them in a sequence, and having to know whether the sequence has been interrupted would be quite complicated. Talk about "make work", this would be a good example.

[jim1932]

the argument would be to get them to agree that the year stamped on the plate is part of the number. therefore a 1942 plate and a 1932 plate with same numbers are not really the same number. I am sure that the ezpass cameras on the Mass Pike are driving this. They can't read the year.

[Frank Miller]

Ok I do not think this will affect YOM plates. This is for people who need to spend extra money to have a Red Sox insignia or whale or teacher on their plate. The plates look identical except for that picture. Personalizing license plates is ok but I would never do it as it makes my car easy to spot if it should end up at a titty bar somehow. I must cover my bases. My father's neighbor has KRW1. I know immediately when I see him. Makes me think of the tools.
https://www.necn.com/news/new-englan...493533591.html

[Keith True]

How it is done in one state has nothing to do how it is done in another state.Here in N.H. we used to be issued new plates every year,alternating green and white from year to year.The numbers were re-issued over and over again,as the number expired when the plate did.It is possible to have a number on a 1930 plate and the same number on a 1935 plate.When we get our YOM plates certified for use now,they say they are supposed to check them to see if the number is in use,but I never saw it actually done.It is free,no money is invloved,so they really don't much care.As a girl at the DMV put it once,if your plate number is seen at a drive by shooting,or a bank robbery,or high speed chase,it's only going to come back to a couple of possibles,and they can probably narrow it down from there.

[big job]

Originally Posted by Frank Miller

Ok I do not think this will affect YOM plates. This is for people who need to spend extra money to have a Red Sox insignia or whale or teacher on their plate. The plates look identical except for that picture. Personalizing license plates is ok but I would never do it as it makes my car easy to spot if it should end up at a titty bar somehow. I must cover my bases. My father's neighbor has KRW1. I know immediately when I see him. Makes me think of the tools.
https://www.necn.com/news/new-englan...493533591.html

The Mass RMV is notorious not knowing what their left hand is doing with
their right hand period. Example, my father was plagued with Boston parking
tickets even up to $500. My father would not go to Boston if paid a million
dollars to do so. The problem is, which is not a problem of the numbers
of a plate; its the prefix of the number which some meter maid failed
to write in the citation. So his number on his Lincoln is Mass PC 352, so lets
break down his 352: Taxi 352, commercial 352, livery 352, Veteran 352, even a hearse 352, fire, 352, antique 352, trailer 352, dealer, repair, farm
contractors, and municipal all with 352. So If you get a citation in this tolet,
before YOU sign the ticket, Make sure your number has the prefix like pass
car 'PC" antique, year of man. commercial what ever, if not you may be
fined for a tractor trailer. Example after my father passed me only child
got property cars trucks whatever. So I go to gas station in his Lincoln and
holy smokes, car in front a Olds has 352 on it. I have 352 also, but the Olds
says veteran in little print on the bottom and a lot of times, this veteran is
covered up by a chrome plate frame.. Bottom line is my PC 352 is a genuine
plate from my grandfather from the turn of the century. I think the first
truck a IH International around oh, one of the first ones. 1903 maybe? So all
others are a vanity plate but now these idiots charge me 90bucks saying
352 is a vanity plate BS it should be grandfathered 4 generations when I drop
my son gets it......

[Kube]

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Ya know what I think?
There are far larger issues in this world than a person's vanity (plate).
You're driving a vehicle that is a toy - certainly not a necessity. That being the case, obviously you have a few more dollars in your pockets than required for life's necessity's.
That kind of reminds me of the folks driving $75,000 Escalade's and complaining about the low MPG.
If this is all you folks have to complain about you should consider yourself blessed. It's obvious you not only have no serious issues but more free time than I could imagine.

[Frank Miller]

Originally Posted by Kube

Ya know what I think?
There are far larger issues in this world than a person's vanity (plate).
You're driving a vehicle that is a toy - certainly not a necessity. That being the case, obviously you have a few more dollars in your pockets than required for life's necessity's.
That kind of reminds me of the folks driving $75,000 Escalade's and complaining about the low MPG.
If this is all you folks have to complain about you should consider yourself blessed. It's obvious you not only have no serious issues but more free time than I could imagine.

It is not so much vanity but in Massachusetts we can display year of manufacture plates on our cars. Some people have paid a lot of money to acquire these plates. I do not think they will be affected but as someone said, do not underestimate the stupidity of the registry.

What has happened is people love to display their status so the registry kept coming up with more to con this heavily democrat state out of more money. Maybe I'm part of the problem as my YOM registration costs the same or less as two years on a regular vehicle.

[fottyjs]

I am from Mass and have a 40 repair plate on my 40 coupe and have had it for 25 years...I might be safe.....

[itslow]

Originally Posted by 5851a

...Same thing for wife's patriotic plate "The U S Flag", then the state decided to change numbering and force you to get new plates, "2 times now". You get to do the 25/5 all over again...

Did you check with your county treasurer about this?


I've had non-standard plates on vehicles in Iowa for as long as I've owned one. Not once have I been charged the initial fee again when the state has updated its numbering or design schemes.

Originally Posted by 5851a

... I don't even know if Iowa allows yom plates.

Iowa allows YOM plates. The car needs to be registered as an "antique" and there are restrictions on usage.



https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2019/321.115.pdf

[J Franklin]

Originally Posted by 50fordcoupeman

You need to be an attorney in Oregon to figure out all the plate options. I read once there are about 55 options here. Cost is somewhere from $125 to $600 for 2 years or thereabouts.

YOM plates in Oregon must not match any already in use and are a one time fee not bi-yearly.