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OK, so Friday I went up to my local DOL to get tabs/plates for my wheeler as well as ORV tabs.
First off, I wanted Collector Plates AND ORV tabs.... well I was flat-out told NO, I can't do that. In the opinions of the DOL workers at that station (who are actually REALLY easy to deal with and knowledgeable), putting collector plates on a rig that I then drive up into the woods violated the "intent" of collector plates. In there minds collector plates are for the guys who pull there cars out of the garage, wash them, and pull them right back in. Their "babies", NOT something that you take in to woods and bash around. While in my opinion my wheeler meets all the classification and usage rules of collector plates, they did not. I probably could have argued my case, and probably won, but it wasn't worth the battle as the ORV tabs are what I was really after. So I settled for regular plates, I'll look at getting a collector plate later (all my other "part time" rigs have them, since they sit 95% of the year).
OK, so what you need to do is get a "dual registration". I think it was more specifically "dual registration in leiw of tittle" or something like that, but don't quote me on that. I know that tittle was involved since it was specific that the tittle was not being surrendered. The lady I was dealing with know what needed to be done, and knew that it *could* be done, but it had been a long time since she had done it so she had to call to get the steps. Even then the print out she made wasn't 100% exact, but we figured it out.
If you getting tabs/plates at the same time, they need to do that transaction first, as they normally would. Once that is complete they then need to do the Dual Registration and process the ORV registration. There are some specific key strokes they need to do on the computer to get the right screens, but once they figure them out its pretty strait forward.
For me it was about $50 for the new tabs/plate (I got new plates since I never got them when I had the tittle transfered since I knew it was a project), then about $50 again for the ORV tabs. The tabs were about $30, but since it was a first registration it effectively was a tittle transfer so I got hit with the $12 transfer fee. Next time it will just be the renewal.
So now my rig with have a regular plate on the back, as well as the ORV plate/sticker and a second set of month/year tabs. Good thing is since I did them together they will renew at the same time. I'll post some pictures of the ORV tabs when I get home in case you don't know what they look like. I was expecting a little motorcycle sized plate, but no its a sticker like a Boat tab. You actually get (2) stickers, the lady said most people put one on their rig (usually motorcycles), then keep the other one in a "safe" place for when the first one gets trashed :haha:
I'll probably make a little "mini license plate" to mount mine and the tabs so i can easily move it as I make changes to the rig.
Took about 45-minutes or so, mainly cause of the learning curve, but was pretty strait forward once we got it down. I brought my tittle in but didn't need to, I copy would have sufficed just to get the information off of it. She ended up make a copy herself and putting it in the file with the ORV registration.
First off, I wanted Collector Plates AND ORV tabs.... well I was flat-out told NO, I can't do that. In the opinions of the DOL workers at that station (who are actually REALLY easy to deal with and knowledgeable), putting collector plates on a rig that I then drive up into the woods violated the "intent" of collector plates. In there minds collector plates are for the guys who pull there cars out of the garage, wash them, and pull them right back in. Their "babies", NOT something that you take in to woods and bash around. While in my opinion my wheeler meets all the classification and usage rules of collector plates, they did not. I probably could have argued my case, and probably won, but it wasn't worth the battle as the ORV tabs are what I was really after. So I settled for regular plates, I'll look at getting a collector plate later (all my other "part time" rigs have them, since they sit 95% of the year).
OK, so what you need to do is get a "dual registration". I think it was more specifically "dual registration in leiw of tittle" or something like that, but don't quote me on that. I know that tittle was involved since it was specific that the tittle was not being surrendered. The lady I was dealing with know what needed to be done, and knew that it *could* be done, but it had been a long time since she had done it so she had to call to get the steps. Even then the print out she made wasn't 100% exact, but we figured it out.
If you getting tabs/plates at the same time, they need to do that transaction first, as they normally would. Once that is complete they then need to do the Dual Registration and process the ORV registration. There are some specific key strokes they need to do on the computer to get the right screens, but once they figure them out its pretty strait forward.
For me it was about $50 for the new tabs/plate (I got new plates since I never got them when I had the tittle transfered since I knew it was a project), then about $50 again for the ORV tabs. The tabs were about $30, but since it was a first registration it effectively was a tittle transfer so I got hit with the $12 transfer fee. Next time it will just be the renewal.
So now my rig with have a regular plate on the back, as well as the ORV plate/sticker and a second set of month/year tabs. Good thing is since I did them together they will renew at the same time. I'll post some pictures of the ORV tabs when I get home in case you don't know what they look like. I was expecting a little motorcycle sized plate, but no its a sticker like a Boat tab. You actually get (2) stickers, the lady said most people put one on their rig (usually motorcycles), then keep the other one in a "safe" place for when the first one gets trashed :haha:
I'll probably make a little "mini license plate" to mount mine and the tabs so i can easily move it as I make changes to the rig.
Took about 45-minutes or so, mainly cause of the learning curve, but was pretty strait forward once we got it down. I brought my tittle in but didn't need to, I copy would have sufficed just to get the information off of it. She ended up make a copy herself and putting it in the file with the ORV registration.
