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I posted the below on another thread as an aside, but here it is in the LEO Contacts thread:
Since I got my CHL I have only shown it to one LEO. A Trooper stopped me for a long expired registration sticker on the window. The new one was still in my glove box - a "Duh" for me. When the Trooper approached my car, I already had out my license, CHL, proof of insurance, and had both hands at 12 oclock on the steering wheel. I gave him my stuff and put my hands back on the steering wheel at 12 oclock. The Trooper was very pleasent and did not comment at all on the CHL - nor did he ask me if I was carrying (which I was). I told him that the new sticker was probably still in the glove box. He told me to go ahead and look for it. I found it almost immediately and handed it to him. He laughed at my "Duh !" and told me to scrape off the old sticker and put the new sticker on as soon as I could get to it. He gave me back my stuff and gave me a smiling "Have a great day!"

I have my annual inspection sticker timed with my registration. I get the registration sticker and take it with me to the inspection station and then ask the inspector to stick the new registration sticker on at the same time he does the inspection sticker.

Funny I've never been pulled over for either sticker (I learned to spell procrastinate - as in "I will not..." x100 - in the third grade - and things haven't changed much in almost 50 years!)

I like the syncronizing trick. Thanks - I'll try that. I am also very guilty of the procrastination issue . . .

styxx wrote: I told him that the new sticker was probably still in the glove box. He told me to go ahead and look for it. I found it almost immediately and handed it to him. He laughed at my "Duh !" and told me to scrape off the old sticker and put the new sticker on as soon as I could get to it. He gave me back my stuff and gave me a smiling "Have a great day!"

Pulled over for the same thing in Travis County. Officer started writing me for the expired registration, which by the way can be taken care if you you have a valid registration sticker (receipt).

While he was doing that, I mentioned that I thought I had it in the glove box as I had just paid for it that week. He allowed me to get it, looked at it...

Then he wrote me a ticket for "failure to display registration"....

Doh! I shouldn't have told him... I could have just submitted a copy of my valid registration with the first ticket that he was writing.

I accept responsibility for not putting the sticker on.. I was, after all, breaking the law.

AEA wrote:I have my annual inspection sticker timed with my registration. I get the registration sticker and take it with me to the inspection station and then ask the inspector to stick the new registration sticker on at the same time he does the inspection sticker.

Not me. I'm too cheap. I get a new inspection sticker the first day of the month after it expires. That way I get 13 months every year.

I do the same thing with the annual inspection on my airplane, and my flight physical.

Mel wrote:

AEA wrote:I have my annual inspection sticker timed with my registration. I get the registration sticker and take it with me to the inspection station and then ask the inspector to stick the new registration sticker on at the same time he does the inspection sticker.

Not me. I'm too cheap. I get a new inspection sticker the first day of the month after it expires. That way I get 13 months every year.

I do the same thing with the annual inspection on my airplane, and my flight physical.

Maybe not the FIRST day of the next month

Mel wrote:Not me. I'm too cheap. I get a new inspection sticker the first day of the month after it expires. That way I get 13 months every year.

I do the same thing with the annual inspection on my airplane, and my flight physical.

So, let's see.... if you keep the same car for 13 years, then you will have eventually beaten the state out of a full year's inspection fee.

$35

Took you 13 years to save all that up.

That's $2.69 a year.

Just checking.

Mel wrote:

AEA wrote:I have my annual inspection sticker timed with my registration. I get the registration sticker and take it with me to the inspection station and then ask the inspector to stick the new registration sticker on at the same time he does the inspection sticker.

Not me. I'm too cheap. I get a new inspection sticker the first day of the month after it expires. That way I get 13 months every year.

I do the same thing with the annual inspection on my airplane, and my flight physical.

I'm gonna do this this year... My registration expires the month before my inspection. Seems that every year the guy that puts the inspection sticker on my window moves it just a bit closer to my registration. When I replace my registration sticker the next year I move it up a bit, so when he removes the inspection sticker the following month, he won't have to thrash the registration sticker in the process.... well, now the stickers are high enough up the window to be annoying. Hopefully replacing them at the same time will get them back to a normal place, out of my view.

it's a conspiracy, I tell you.

If you really want to snowball the savings, save the inspection for 2 months after it goes out. By law, if given a ticket on an inspection sticker that went out within 60 days, the court has to drop if you fix it. Can't hunt for it now, but it's in the transportation code under inspection sticker statute.

RoyGBiv wrote:Seems that every year the guy that puts the inspection sticker on my window moves it just a bit closer to my registration. When I replace my registration sticker the next year I move it up a bit, so when he removes the inspection sticker the following month, he won't have to thrash the registration sticker in the process.... well, now the stickers are high enough up the window to be annoying. Hopefully replacing them at the same time will get them back to a normal place, out of my view.

it's a conspiracy, I tell you.

I put the stickers side by side.

You have until the 5th day of the month following the expiration month to renew a car tag or inspection sticker. A citation for either can be dismissed by the court if corrected within 60 days but there is a $10 dismissal fee.

styxx wrote:A Trooper stopped me for a long expired registration sticker on the window. The new one was still in my glove box - a "Duh" for me.

In today's world, an officer should be able to confirm that the driver was indeed current via their on-board computer or smartphone. Ditto for insurance coverage.

Do they only check information when it fits their agenda?

Crossfire wrote:

Mel wrote:Not me. I'm too cheap. I get a new inspection sticker the first day of the month after it expires. That way I get 13 months every year.

I do the same thing with the annual inspection on my airplane, and my flight physical.

So, let's see.... if you keep the same car for 13 years, then you will have eventually beaten the state out of a full year's inspection fee.

$35

Took you 13 years to save all that up.

That's $2.69 a year.

Just checking.

Not to mention spending a longer time waiting because of all the other procrastinators.

Unless one's time isn't that valuable, it's false economy.

A few years back I had a registration and inspection sticker expired by more than two years each. Like a dumski I paid zero attention to the dates. To make it worse, I ask the officer to cut me some slack since one was only out by a month and the other a couple months. The fact that I had apparently lost a year of my life was pointed out to me and I received two citations. I recieved zero forgiveness from the court or the registration office. I think they even tagged me extra for getting a ticket while driving with an expired registration.

Whelp... that's my ticket story. Pretty exciting stuff... don't ya think?