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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!
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.
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.
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.
Alot of people jumping on this bandwagon not knowing all the factsQuote:
Originally Posted by bluesfan
Too good to be true, probably ain’t
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 approved :Rofl Isn'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.
Time will tell. Wait I think I can already here the whining.
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.
BluesFan your plate being hard to see makes me recall the time
I rode around for 3 years with expired sticker completely forgot about it. The sticker was hid by the ball on the bumper.
I hope the ST plate works but I really can’t believe money grubbing ILLINOS will over look it When they are the same people who jacked the renewal up a hundred bucks
I got a St plate last month and when I did I confirmed that I can tow it with my Tahoe that has auto plates. (Not b truck) auto plates have the same 8000lb limit as b truck plates.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluesfan
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Thanks for sharing. It seems there is very little understanding of this whole deal, whether it is the title/license company, the SOS, law enforcement, or the boat owners posting on the web. Still, I have yet to find one case of anyone being fined for having an ST plate. That says a lot to me given its been a year since this whole concept started. I'm trying to keep an open mind towards both sides of the coin. But, given human nature, it sure seems likely someone would go to the web with their story of how they got screwed over for using an ST plate. After all you hear less when things go correctly and hear every detail when they do not. For example truck shopping-you would not buy a Ford, Chevy, GM. etc. if you looked only at negative posts across the web. But for every negative account there are thousands of people who don't say squat because all is good. Still, I'm trying to find a reason not to try this and failing to do so...
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Who needs a trailer! Take that illinois !!!
We have two single axle trailers, one for the boat, and a 5 x 10 flat bed, with a 2000# axle. Last year, due to the increase, we did not renew (or use) the flat bed . I recently received the renewal notice for the boat. We decided to renew the flat bed for this upcoming year. I did it online. Couple days later, the sticker shows up. When does it expire, you ask? April of 2021. Yup, you read that right! $118 for one month.
Wife called local DMV, was told you can send a letter to the state to appeal it, however, good luck. DMV mentioned these, while on the phone with them. Said if you go out of state, some LEO's may not recognize them for smaller trailers. And, as others said, for "B" or similar plates, stay under 8000# gross weight. As well as some state/local LEO's. On the other hand, A good friend is a LEO, he's fed up with this whole increase also.
We're going Friday to get ST plates for the flat bed. I'm on the fence with the boat, as I'm trying to sell it.
I tried for st plates.. dixon il. lee county dmv..guy in line in front of me also was trying to get st plates..neither one of us had any luck.. she kept saying it was illegal..and this DMV office will not issue st plates ..for a boat ,flat, homemade trailers..her only reasoning was.. it is illegal..Quote:
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My boat and trailer were both liberated to South Carolina. My grandson is enjoying their freedom. I should have a T shirt made that say's "I haven't escaped Illinois politics, but my boat has".
i buy all groceries and gas in Iowa. Sad
Boat trailer and small trailer both issued ST plates today. No issue at all, and when I was there (had some other things to take care of so I was there a little bit), at least 5 other people came in and got the ST plates without issue. Marion County - Salem
Salem is where I had gotten mine and where I was able to get my questions answered. I still need to go get my kayak hauler changed to an ST plate.Quote:
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Maybe northern IL does it different than southern IL. LOL never heard that before!!! I'm ready to draw a border line and split the state!Quote:
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I had the same thing happen on my car plate sticker.Quote:
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I also got a license expired ticket to the tune of a $30.00 fine.
I think their reasoning is that the trailer or vehicle was on the road while the sticker was expired.
I was on the IL dmv website and it doesn't even offer the ST class plate.
Check out Carol E’s License Service. We have two locations locally. Cahokia and Milstadt, IL. 618-332-0331 and 618-600-5537, respectively. My neighbor (mower trailer) was able to reclassify his expired TA license to an ST designation over the phone. I called the Millstadt office and was told I could reclassify for $70 and it would the be lifetime. I just paid the $118, good through April 2022, so will wait until next year. But, they understood it was a boat trailer and had no problem with issuing an ST trailer license.
I have ST plates for both my boat trailer, and my 5x10 utility trailer....got them last year, and the lady at the DMV told me the state just probably hasn't figured out all the money they are losing. She said this may last a month, or may last a couple years, but with as corrupt and money-hungry Illinois is, don't expect it to last but a couple more years. She then assured me that those who have the ST tags will be "grandfathered in" if anything changes. SO, I told my dad, who the day before just went and renewed his registration for his boat trailer for the $118. So, he went back and asked his DMV about the ST tags, went ahead and bought it, and he should never have to worry about it again. He got his renewal in the mail the other day for the regular one....threw it in the trash!
A follow up to post #15, we got the money back!! I couldn't believe it!!!!
We did use $25 of the refund, and put ST plates on the boat trailer also.
Ended up getting the ST plate and not looking back. I should put that $100 I saved towards some fishing lessons!