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RobWNY
Aug 20, 2020Explorer
blt2ski wrote:
Something to consider, depending upon the other states you travel into, a passenger plate may only allow the truck plus passenger weight! Start pulling a trailer, load of landscape material, ie bark, mulch, soil, lumber etc, you need a truck/commercial plate. If you come into Was St, no payed for tonnage on that truck, you would be considered overweight. Paying fines, plus putting tonnage on you truck.
In reality you probably won't get pulled over here in Wa St for wieght per say, but if pulled over for speed, lights are out etc, they may notice passenger plate, fine accordingly.
Your call gamble. At least here, everyone buys tags in even 2000 lb increments, your legal to that wieght.
Marty
By your explanation then, any person that would like to visit Washington State can't do it legally if they drive a registered vehicle there from any State other than California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and the District of Columbia because Washington State requires emissions standards that meet California standards. That leaves people with registered vehicles from the other 35 States SOL unless they go there by some other means.
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