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Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:06 am
by rustypjr
The other post got me to thinking. (I know kinda scary) Do you have to have a tag for evvery trailer (four wheeler trailer, boat trailer, 16 foot trailer, 32' dovetail) We have no tag on none of these. Well the boat trailer has one that my wifes granpa put on. It expired in 80 something.
Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:09 am
by 7ducks
I have one on my 4wheeler trailer...fine is 3 times the cost of the tag....Madison PD will stop you for anything.
Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:10 am
by fireplug
I have a 16' tandom, a 12' double 4 wheeler, and a 5'x8' 4 wheeler trailer and 2 boat trailers. None have tags and never will.
I will accept the ticket and pay it. Really has to be some young @ss punk or just some mean f'er just looking for a reason
to write you a ticket to get a trailer tag ticket. Cheaper to just pay a ticket once in a blue moon than to tag all them trailers.
Especially in the county I live in where tags are sky high anyway.
Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:25 am
by blgros1
i don't think you have to have one in MS do you? I know you need one in La, have friends that have gotten ticketed for it, all mine have them, well at least i swap one plate between two trailers

Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:29 am
by deltadukman
No trailer I have ever owned has a tag and working lights...except the boat, because if I give them another reason to stop me coming too and from the lake I just might get more than a tag ticket.
But the fourwheeler trailer is going on about 15-16 years old and has never had a tag or working lights after about a month of ownership...guess were in the money now and a ticket outwieghs the cost

Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:31 am
by Roach
You have to have a tag on EACH trailer and any law enforcement officer can write you a ticket for it.
Most county and city governments are in a tight now due to the economic conditions and have been instructed to write tickets!
Trailer tags are one that they are emphasizing.
Most trailer tags are less than $30 so it's a smart investment.
I would rather have the tag than get stopped and make me late for a hunt and have to pay a $100 ticket!
Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:36 am
by crackhead
Ive have never had a tag on my trailer. Its 8 or 10 years old, still have the title. Will I have to pay a big fine??
Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:43 am
by LODI QUACKER
You better get one, you run into a jack ash like I did this past weekend and you will regret it.
Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:44 am
by Roach
Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:19 am
by mudsucker
I got a tic for no lights on a boat trailer. He let me go on the no tag as I was moving the boat for some one. Cohoma Co. wants $162 for the improper equipment ticket. Hate to see what the no tag would have been on top of that!

Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:42 am
by riverat
i ll let you fellas know how much it is after i got smoked in vicksburg for no trailer tag. guy even said my trailer lights werent working and i said ok well lets go test em then since i put them on days before and he backed off, v town must be hurting for some cheese.

Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:48 am
by SwampMan
I have never tagged a trailer either. Went to the courthouse to get the title transferred to my name on a boat trailer. Found out that the year before I bought it, the previous owner did not tag it, as well as the year that I owned it it was not tagged. Had to pay for the 2 yrs. that the trailer was not tagged, plus a fine, plus buy a tag for this year. All just to transfer the title in my name so I can sell it. Needless to say, I will tag every trailer I own from now on, I suggest you do the same.
Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:50 am
by Lazy Drake
Local coffers are running low, so the are writing tickets for everything under the sun. Police preach that they write tickets to save lives, bullchit, it is for revenue generation only.
I have never had a tag for a 4 wheeler trailer in my life.
Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:54 am
by slim jim
If you go to get a tag and the trailor dont have serial # on it already, make a # up and tell'em you just made it

Re: Trailer Tag
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:55 am
by rustypjr
my fourwheeler trailer and my boat trailer are homemade.