The Tennessee Department of Revenue lists a number of trailers that do not require a registration, but when those trailers are stolen, police said that’s one less way they can track down your property.
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Please explain to me how forcing us to pay a fee to the State is going to help police track down a stolen trailer when half the trailers around here, especially the ag trailers, are either so old their data plates are torn up beyond recognition or they're homemade and never had one.
Hell, I'm not even sure if there is a data plate on my 6 year old 8 footer. If there is, I can't find it. It damned sure ain't on the tongue.
How about personal responsibility? If your trailer is indeed that expensive, you can add a GPS tracker to it. They come now at very cheap prices (Way under $100) and will be more effective than any cop or government license to recover your property.
ReplyDeleteMore BS.. this is just a money grab.
ReplyDeleteCome on, man. Everyone knows the more fees/taxes you pay to the guvmint, the safer and healthier you and your property are. The more we pay, the double-plus gooder it gets.
ReplyDelete'double-plus gooder' goes in my list of Things to Remember. Sort of like a Delta Force trainer one day saying, "You couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a double-nought spy."
DeleteA course there is a trailer identification. Let somebody drag your trailer through town and lot a folks would point and say, Hey, that's Kenny's trailer. Small towns are so cool. Back in the sixties my father was in another town and his car was stolen. It was found out of gas and abandoned. Later when the town heard it had been stolen come to find out the thieves had driven right through our town. One guy pumping gas said he saw Howards car go by with a couple strangers in it and thought it was probably friends or reletives so he threw up a hand in a howdy. Howard was always lending his car to somebody at the bar so the howdy guy I aint saying was stupid. In close, the thief was a Judges son and his friend.
ReplyDeleteUtility trailers are done by payload capability. Tag should be on the axle. Eastwood
ReplyDeleteAh, there it is. Some of it, anyway. It's just a sticker glued to the axle and about half of it is gone. It would take a thief about 2 seconds to yank the rest of it off.
DeletePut a couple barrels of fertilizer and some diesel on it and park in front of federal building and blow it up. Feds will find ID on it
DeleteDaryl
It's about control.
ReplyDelete12. gauge 00-buck generously applied to the torsos of the thieving miscreants might help
ReplyDeleteThe good idea fairy strikes again.
ReplyDeleteKnow of a stolen trailer that was recovered a couple years after being stolen. The thief had painted it but did not know that the owner had welded his name on the frame.
ReplyDeleteTrailers are registered here, a one-time fee that gives it a "permanent" plate (same with motorcycles). I know several people that have had one stolen. I don't know anyone that's had one recovered. Maybe it'd work better if we had a yearly fee.
ReplyDeleteThey may have changed it, but in TN the rule used to be that a trailer didn't require a license plate for in-state use, but did if it were to be taken across state lines. Don't know about now. I haven't bothered finding out, & don't intend to. Fuck 'em.
ReplyDelete--Tennessee Budd
I don't worry much going into Kentucky with it, but I'm pretty sure if I used it untagged to haul something anywhere west of the Mississippi, I'd be getting pulled over on a regular basis.
DeleteI bought a nice 6X10 homemade utility trailer in NC where all trailers need to be numbered and tagged. Painted some parts of it John Deere green so at least thieves would have to repaint it. It also makes it easy for the law to spot it. Please don't everyone start painting yours green. Pick another color please.
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