Weigh your truck! Could save $ on license fees

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In Calif. , they tax you on everything. One tax is on the un-laden weight of your truck. When I got my permanent registration for my truck, it said that my '01. 5,QC,SB,2WD weighed in at 6130lbs. I went to a truck scale and got the truck weight certified. It only weighed in at 5750lbs. Weighing at under 6000lbs makes my weight fees $50 dollars cheaper per year! $5 dollar weight certificate saved me $$$$$! Don't know about you guys in other states but maybe worth a check. FYI

 

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I'm sooooo glad I don't live there anymore(Lompoc). I just got my renewal for my '00 QC2500 4x4(wt 7320 lbs),and it's only $83 bucks!

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ps. You know,I could still save another $10 bucks ontop of that if I go in and tell them I don't haul any hazardous chemicals.

 

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Yeh Mike, The way things are going in this state we are soon going to have to have Haz placards on our vehicles for the fuel in our tanks and the lead in the batteries under our hoods!

 

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Just out of curiosity..... I weighed my truck and flatbed this weekend when I went to the landfill. Empty I weighed 9160. It's an 18 ft flatbed rated for 10,000 GVW. When I bought it they said it weighed 2000 lbs. That would put my truck at about 7000. I thought that's about what these trucks weighed empty.

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2001 HO 6 spd 2500, 4. 10 LSD, Towing Package, Electric Brakes, SPA EGT/Boost Gauges, Running Boards, Fog Lights, Real Backup Lights, Running Boards

 

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Not true Mike. I tried to get the $10. registration renewal discount this year... I found out you can't haul ANYTHING (i. e. , ANYTHING) in the bed of your truck in order to get the discount. I repeat, ANYTHING! What kind of political BS is that anyway?

 

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Hey Mike... I've seen ya drive! YOU are hazardous! If ya want that discount, you would have to swear that only your wife drives it. LOL!!!
Can only imagine your drive with jmbrowning and the BB...

BOMBS away!

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Rob Hanson
1999 "Big Red", 3500 SLT QC 4X4 6 spd, 4. 10 LSD, Braided SS fuel lines, Mag-Hytec Rear Cover, Cummins E-Brake, Blue Box, Bosch Injectors, All-steel Cowl Induction Hood, Rhino, Rosewood Kit, Scotty System, SportComp Gauges, TorkLift SuperHitch, Tekonsha Brake Controller, Rear Flood lights, Cobra CB, DeeZee Running Boards, BD 2WD Low kit, Air Lift bags and a Geno's "I tromped a Ford" decal. Member of BOMB! (WW NW Chapter)

MyPics.com (pics updated 10/14/00)

I'd rather be... .
Cummin than Strokin.

 

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In Nevada, license fees are based upon what the State says your truck's worth. They depreciate that value annually, which lowers the renewal a little each year. The first time I licensed my truck (1999) the annual fee was $495. 00! I think Califonia has us beat tho.

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Frank Dziurda - K7SFN
Carson City, Nevada
'99. 5 2500 4X4 6-Speed Quad Cab LWB 3. 54 LSD

 

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Consider yourself lucky. My buddy just registered his 2001 4x4, reg. cab SLT here in Colorado, for $780. This was for rec. (recreational) truck plates, which means you can't use it commercially. Mine were $260, also for rec truck plates (I saved $36 annually over regular truck plates. )

Pete

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'97 2500 CC 4X4 5spd Sport
'83 K5 Blazer 350 TBI (ex 6. 2), 39. 5 TSLs, 3" lift, Dana 60/GM 14 blt, Detroits

 

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Hey John,
Boy that is BS! I guess it's a good thing I didn't try to get that discounted from my renewal... I figured what's $10 bucks anyway.

Rob,
Next time you want to go to Disneyland,DON'T!
Just let me hook up the BB again. Heck-uv-alot cheaper! #ad
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-Mike
Owner of M & Em Amusement Rides!

 

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Geez Oh Peets! I feel bad for you guys. When I lived it TN. it was $23 per year regardless of its weight, value, or year built, as long as it was a passenger vehicle, not commercial. Now I'm in MI. , and this year it's going to be $107 (last year $118. ) I've been cry-babying about $107 (and have let my plate expire), I guess I really don't have anything to cry about. I'd have to take out a loan to pay for registration if I lived in the same state as some of you guys. #ad


BTW, $107 is 9. 32% less than $118. If 9. 32% is the approx. depreciation, that would mean my $34,100 truck is worth about $30,921. That's $3,179 worth of depreciation.

Just thinking out loud there, but does that sound about right?

 

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When I used to live inThe peoples Republic of California my truck was 20 years old and had to have comercial plates to put any thing in the bed and it was a $275. 00 bite in the butt. Then I found out you could get House car plates with a slide in camper or a Shell but couldnt take it off. So I did that and the fee was $50. 00. By getting a personalized plate nobody knew what kind off plate it was and I took off the shell and saved $175. 00 a year. Dont you hate a government that makes you scheme to avoid excessive taxes?

 

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Paying $198 for 11,000 gross here in PA. $12 for a trailer plate if 10k or less.

 

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I have a 97 3500 extended cab with a 10' flatbed leased to a trucking company here in Tx. My truck weighs 8450 lbs empty and I have it registered for 15,000 lbs. That cost $138. 55 a yr. I don't pull a trailer so all that weight is just for the truck.

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1997 3500 club cab, 10' flatbed, 3:54, auto, 4 Firestone air bags, 268,000+ miles

 

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The registration fee on my 2001 will be over $900 next year, depreciating every year after that. They need lots of taxes in Kentucky to pay for having way too many state (storm)troopers out on the road, overzealously enforcing ridiculously low speed limits. I ran a simple errand in Lexington yesterday, counted 9 city cops, and 7 state troopers, all in a total of driving 20 miles round trip.

 

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Oregon-$40 for 2 years

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2001 HO 6spd,Quad cab,LWB,4x4,Flame Red,all options except for leather,Westin Brushguard/Push bar,Painless wiring,Radio Shack CB( so what it works},my own designed CB mount,Smittybuilt nerf bars,NW Custom rocker covers(more to come)

 

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my truck has comercial plates because I do haul anything and everything and in good ol California it will cost be about $780 next year

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TAZ... 2001 2500 SLT+ 4X4 Auto ETC Cummins, LSD 3. 54,Quad Cab, Long Bed, Agate Leather, White/Driftwood Exterior, Sliding rear window, Camper Special Group, Towing Group, Cab clearance lights,SPA-Technique Digital Dual Gauges (Pyro/Boost, Trans pressure/temp) Aux. Backup lamps. BNM 5th Wheel Hitch, Additional Body Molding on Bed. BD Torc Loc, BD Pressure Loc, Line-X bed-liner. DTT's TC & VB, Pac Brake, Power Edge, Edge EZ, Grover Air Horns

2000 32' Aljo Triple Slide 5th Wheel.

http://www.ramtaz.com

Add on's to come: any other Ram Runner required modifications...

 

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MikeR, that's pretty lame isn't it? #ad


Ya Michael, but we don't have a state sales tax either. #ad

 

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FYI - In Texas, your license fee is for trucks is based on the carrying capacity. .

Where I live now, it's based on value. . Luckily I don't have to pay for year 2000 since we moved here after the cutoff.

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Y2K 3500, 4WD, Auto, 3. 54, Custom Brush Guard, Mopar nerf bars & rock guard, Camper package, Towing package, all options except leather, Mopar Rock Guards, Vent Shades, Solar Shade, RoseWood Dash, Air-Lift Air Bags, Hadley 'BULLY' air horns, Rancho RS9000s, Lance 1130 Camper

 

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I swore I wouldn't buy a new truck in Kalifornia, but I did anyway. I paid over $3000 in sales tax, and another $800+ in license/weight fees on my 2001. 5 ETH.

This winter, I'm driving home to Florida and Tennessee to see family, and while in TN, I'm going to transfer the registration there, as is the case with my trailer and cars. I can transfer my old plate and pay $23 (as somebody else here posted).

It's a waste of the reg money, but at least it'll be done and I don't have to burden my sister with a power of attorney to have her do it.

I hate this **** state; I can't wait to get out. BUT, nowhere else (yet) can I earn the same living I do here.

Rob

 

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In Maryland its $83. 50 for TWO years. And I complain about writing that check! Doesn't matter if its commercial use. Those fees you guys are quoting are outrageous.

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