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California DMV Loophole Allowed Jobs to Drive Sans-Plates

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Re: California DMV Loophole Allowed Jobs to Drive Sans-Plates

#31
post #9

Now explain why he liked to use handicap spots and find the DMV loophole for that. Or how he seeded Apple by selling something that would have landed him in federal prison today.

Did he use them everywhere or just at apple?

He's rich enough to pay the fine once in a while when it happened if it was outside of apple too.

Re: California DMV Loophole Allowed Jobs to Drive Sans-Plates

#32
post #6

Approaching 4 years of driving with no plates on the same car here in California. Just leave the paper dealer plate(the one with the dealership name/logo on it) on the car. Cops wont ever pull you over for lack of plates, even if youre missing the front plate as well, as I am.

You must not live in SF then. After four fix-it tickets for no front plate, I caved.

in chicago the meter maids are strict about no front license plate, so when i moved here i quickly got a ticket for it (which was $50, i think). i had gone 6 years with no front plate and didn't want to put one on.

i had a personalized license plate on the back that i no longer cared about and i discovered that when i told the dmv that i lost the front plate (which was true, since the car had no front plate for 6 years outside of chicago) they gave me a temporary plate while the replacements were being made, which cost me all of about $10.

the temporary plate expired in 6 months, so for 6 months i was able to avoid having a front plate. if i had kept the car for longer, i would have just told them the plates never came in the mail or something, paid the small replacement fee again, and gotten another 6 month temporary plate.

Re: California DMV Loophole Allowed Jobs to Drive Sans-Plates

#33
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

he probably got cancer from all the volatile compounds that gives new cars that smell.

Uh, they stick an ozonator (ozone) in the car at the end of the factory run. Used car dealers frequently use them. Due to the fact the Ozone will bind to almost anything volatile, the air is effectively sterilised and gives it that "new car smell". tl;dr: you're a douche; your internet access should probably be revoked

Ozone is a well known cancerigen. Maybe they shouldn't do that anymore ?

Re: California DMV Loophole Allowed Jobs to Drive Sans-Plates

#34
It states:

The permit the dealer provides for display on the passenger side of the front window is valid until the plates and stickers are received by the customer, or for six months from the sale date, whichever comes first.

Assuming he received them a month after purchase, since another clause states that one would no more than 45 days after purchase, how is that a loophole?

Re: California DMV Loophole Allowed Jobs to Drive Sans-Plates

#35
His decision to go with the lettering on the car (“SL 55 AMG”) seems much stranger to me. At least if you buy the (much cheaper) C-Class you can actually decide whether you want lettering or not. (I don’t have a car and don’t want one but my dad recently asked me whether he should go with or without the lettering. I told him to go without, that seems much classier and better looking to me.)

Re: California DMV Loophole Allowed Jobs to Drive Sans-Plates

#36

Can anyone explain the advantage to driving without plates? It seems that being the Mercedes AMG would be just as easy to identify as the Mercedes with the APPLE1 plate.

Parking Tickets. Steve had a habit of parking basically wherever he felt like it.

Re: California DMV Loophole Allowed Jobs to Drive Sans-Plates

#37

Can anyone explain the advantage to driving without plates? It seems that being the Mercedes AMG would be just as easy to identify as the Mercedes with the APPLE1 plate.

Parking Tickets. Steve had a habit of parking basically wherever he felt like it.

They can also use the VIN that's readable from the windshield.

Re: California DMV Loophole Allowed Jobs to Drive Sans-Plates

#38
post #34

It states: The permit the dealer provides for display on the passenger side of the front window is valid until the plates and stickers are received by the customer, or for six months from the sale date, whichever comes first. Assuming he received them a month after purchase, since another clause states that one would no more than 45 days after purchase, how is that a loophole?

He leased his cars ... didn't own them.

Re: California DMV Loophole Allowed Jobs to Drive Sans-Plates

#39

Can anyone explain the advantage to driving without plates? It seems that being the Mercedes AMG would be just as easy to identify as the Mercedes with the APPLE1 plate.

Parking Tickets. Steve had a habit of parking basically wherever he felt like it.

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