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Reply With QuoteMine are due at end of April. I will try the switch. Thanks for the update!
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“ST” plates revisit
Gentlemen, started new thread so it wouldn’t get lost in the shuffle, bought my $19 st plates for my small trailer yesterday at DMV. It is for real!thought I would have to pay for 2 years, 236$, she said or you can just buy the st plates. Yes give me those!
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Mine are due at end of April. I will try the switch. Thanks for the update!
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Just spoke with my local title company. Yes this is legit. Must tow with a truck (not a car or SUV). If truck plates are "B" you can have 8000 lbs or less. If it is more than 8000 you can re-classify your truck plates as "C" and be 10,000 lbs or less. Better do it before Illinois raises the ST plates $100 too!
Illinois is a mess. Took 6 months after I paid to get my FOID card. Bought a new bike in January, needed to transfer my plate from my old one. Still nothing to show for it. Old registration sticker expires today. I bet it is a pain for LEO's too.
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I had also read somewhere about annual inspections if you use an ST plate. I forgot to ask that question to the license company. Anybody know more about that? That would be a negative I would need to consider.
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Wish you luck on ST Plates However I have a friend at DMV in Monticello she told me they will definitely sell you a ST plate for your trailer,
however State Police do not recognize it and will issue ticket.
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Alot of people jumping on this bandwagon not knowing all the factsOriginally Posted by bluesfan
A person should learn something new every day!
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Too good to be true, probably ain’t
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My friend has been a police officer for many years. I told him about the "gray area" that law enforcement may not recognize the ST plates as legal. His response was this: if the trailer, the state issued plates , and the state issued registration all match there are no issues. He thinks he will do it with his trailers'
I have to chuckle at the comment about the State Police will issue tickets for something that their employer approvedIsn't that like the saying "you shouldn't crap where you sleep"?
I don't know how current this is:
Exemptions
Wagon trailers, and any other trailers and farm implements that you use in agriculture-related work, need not go through this safety inspection in Illinois. Also exempt from the safety inspection requirements are semitrailers, pole trailers, and trailers with a gross weight of 5,000 pounds or less, including the weight of the vehicle and its load. If you have a house trailer that you use for your living quarters, you don't need a safety inspection. Registered Illinois government vehicles also don't have to go through the safety inspection.
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Time will tell. Wait I think I can already here the whining.
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Whining, you mean from the guys whining about the high renewal prices. Lol. I appreciate your opinion fly man. I have not done anything yet and will research more before I do. I have not been pulled over in 35 plus years. My plate is tucked so far up under my Basscat trailer, you can barely even see the plate number. The fine is probably not much more than the TR renewal. I feel bad for the guys with the $300 trailers spending more in registration in 3 years than what the trailer is worth. I can afford paying the extra $100 but damn I'm tired of Illinois' BS. If I go the ST route and have a problem, I will come back on here and whine about it to educate others, but I will consider myself fore-warned. Still, I have not heard of anyone having any problems. But I have seen a few posts across the web stating a friend of a friend of a friend says this and that. Not saying it isn't true, just stating what I have found in my digging so far. I have a month to figure it out.
