Buying a Class A coach in Texas

Empty Nest, Soon wrote:
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Another question for me to ask the Texas DMV. It doesn't seem right that the old plates would be good for me to drive on after the title is signed over to me.

Wayne

Doesn't seem right because your experience is different. With people saying in Texas the tags stay with the vehicle, I'll work from the Oklahoma model, where they stay with the vehicle. As soon as we have the bill of sale (a signed over title is also nice) those tags are ours. If the vehicle stays in the state, we have a certain amount of time to pay the taxes, and make an application for title in our own name, but the tags are good until they expire, and then need only renewal.

We have an option to buy new tags ($3) at time of tax paying and title application or any time renewing. We usually do, because there could be outstanding warrants on the previous owner, and being stopped on mistaken ID is not fun.

Taking it out of state, you would be driving a Texas vehicle with valid Texas tags that belong to you, with an obligation to pay some taxes somewhere base on your residence. Timing on that is between you and state of residence (at least one wants the vehicle tagged before first driven on that state's roads).

Only real problem is getting stopped and dealing with vehicle tags don't match state of driver's license, and the paperwork from the sale should cover that for most LEOs in most states.

Most likely you are having difficulty with tax office in a Texas county because they don't understand the problem, since the way they do things they don't see the problem you think you have. So they are trying to invent solutions.

P.S. I bought my RV from a private owner in Missouri, plates came with it, I had to wait for him to clear his lien before getting a signed over Missouri title, our broker for the transaction had me just drive home on his plates, but gave me a dealer temp tag "just in case." Driving it to Illinois and back was probably a stretch.