Rear License Plate and Truck Camper?
I am buying a 8 1/2 ft truck camper that will be installed on a 3/4 ton 6 1/2 ft bed. The camper will then extend over the rear of the truck. The camper bottom does not hang below the tailgate. But u...
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First off, if your camper does not have a place to install the license plate, then you do not need to relocate the license plate.
Law officers generally have bigger fish to fry on any given day of the week. They don't exist to check where your license plate is when you've got the truck camper loaded. Most of them rarely see truck campers and when they do, they don't know what they're looking at so they don't know what to look for.
Contrary to popular belief, law officers don't have all the rules memorized and they are not looking for any violation of any rule. It's just not humanly possible.
Like others have said, you're only going to get hassled in a "wrong place, wrong time" situation. Even if the officer picks up on it, he will usually just give you a warning.
Oh, and a "duplicate" license plate is usually worse than no plate at all. We've had at least one member here that tried putting a laminated photocopy of their plate on the camper, and that absolutely did NOT fly with the law officer that pulled them over. They picked right up on that. I know of no states that can/will issue legitimate "duplicate" license plates.
Same deal with putting your front plate on the camper. In states where the front plate is required, the law picks right up on the missing plate.
Law officers generally have bigger fish to fry on any given day of the week. They don't exist to check where your license plate is when you've got the truck camper loaded. Most of them rarely see truck campers and when they do, they don't know what they're looking at so they don't know what to look for.
Contrary to popular belief, law officers don't have all the rules memorized and they are not looking for any violation of any rule. It's just not humanly possible.
Like others have said, you're only going to get hassled in a "wrong place, wrong time" situation. Even if the officer picks up on it, he will usually just give you a warning.
Oh, and a "duplicate" license plate is usually worse than no plate at all. We've had at least one member here that tried putting a laminated photocopy of their plate on the camper, and that absolutely did NOT fly with the law officer that pulled them over. They picked right up on that. I know of no states that can/will issue legitimate "duplicate" license plates.
Same deal with putting your front plate on the camper. In states where the front plate is required, the law picks right up on the missing plate.
