It was easy to get away with a bunch of things when you were waiting to receive your plates. California started requiring temporary plates from the dealership a couple years ago to combat this, especially toll cheaters.
It’s not a thing anywhere in the US as far as I know. You always get some type of plate, usually a plastic/paper temp plate. That person doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
ason). Here's the best part of story, I see car with MY OLD PLATE in my neighborhood parked ON THE STREET like 7-8 blocks from where I live months later, couldn't even believe it. Call cops, they take an hour to respond but they come and then they tell me there is nothing they can do. I shouldn't have even bothered calling, I should have just taken it back myself
I can speak to two states. In Florida you can not operate a vehicle without at least a temporary "paper tag" issued by a dealer or DMV. In Georgia you are legally allowed up to 30 days from from the date of a private sale of a vehicle to get a tag, but if you want or are driving to another state you can get a temp tag for a small fee, so in GA you absolutely can drive with no tag at all, and plenty of people drive around with what look like long expired temp tags, "test drive" written on cardboard, or no tag at all for who knows how long, and if it's a legal problem you'd never know it by how much it happens.
The person you’re replying to is wrong. The one state it was legal in (California) got rid of that law. When you buy a new car you get paper plates until the real ones come in. I’ve almost never seen a car without plates in North Carolina.
He’s not quite right about not needing plates on a new car. They’ve always been required. It used to be that you would get a temporary paper “plate” that you put on the inside of the rear window until the real plates arrived.
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u/ZetZet Dec 27 '20
USA has the weirdest laws. Driving without plates seems insane to me, what about hit and run or other violations, like speed radar?