Driving a new truck on temporary plates

It's from Salt Lake City Utah to Houston Texas.

A lot of people I've talked to said it's no big deal. Paper log and that's it apparently.

 

Thank you!

 

Honestly, I would try to cover things, the best I could. Shows effort, Lol. Instead of blatant disregard, and run it home on the weekend, maybe Driving at night, Lol. That’s just Me. As long as I’m insured. In my case, the Dealer acted as SOS. It took weeks to get my actual Title. But I had paperwork, to get registration and transfer plate in Mi. I should have ran straight home, since the plate wasn’t Legal, for a Commercial Vehicle. I think the main thing is to have proof of Ownership, insurance helps. Your not hauling freight. Log book can’t hurt. So many DOT, don’t really know themselves. Any Violations won’t have a Company to applie them to.( CSA) But your CDL, could get tarnished, by a ticket, or the wrong Officer, I guess. I’d be ready to explain, I thought I had everything covered, Officer, based on information, from my Company, etc. I bought my first Truck, and Bobtailed everywhere, before plating it, with sales paperwork. Never thought much about it. That’s 24 yrs ago. Now CSA points on License, would be my only concern. Worst case, how bad could it be?

 

I'll have insurance and the sales paperwork and a paper log.

I'll probably post IN TRANSIT in the window.

Hopefully that'll be sufficient.

Thank you

 

When it comes to Legalities @ZVar , might know the textbook answer

 

Likely will get you pulled over as that means nothing and might even make the LEO curious as to what you are trying to accomplish. Putting the paper tags in the window is common, but can still get you in trouble if you get an a-hole officer. Having something in the path of the wiper blades to block view and all.

As for the ELD, you do not fall under any exemption from what you said. You don't fall under the drive-away exemption, as you are not delivering it to a customer. You already bought it. You might fall under the 8 days in 30 if, and only if, you as the driver qualifies. If you've driven more than 8 days in the last 30 though you will need an ELD to be legal.

Since you are crossing state lines, you need all the same paperwork/logging as if you are pulling a load. Well, no MC# or cargo insurance, but that's all you don't have to have. If you are getting this for intrastate work, you might be better to get it delivered. If it's going to be an interstate truck, might as well get the ELD and all other legalities in order as you need them anyway.

 

Yeah OK.

So if I have an ELD and the sales paperwork and insurance then I should be OK to drive it home?

I was going to get it lettered at home.

Is that OK?

Thank you

 

I'm not up to date on buying a truck and all the paperwork associated with it, so I'm not going to say with 100% certainty that you have everything. I will say as far as I'm aware that's all you need.

And technically for the lettering you need it on the truck (DOT number and name at the least) as it's no different than say running bobtail to the next pickup. That said I would be shocked if you got a violation for not having it, considering that with the sales paperwork it was obviously just bought.

I would likely run it through a DOT inspection before moving it if it doesn't have a valid one though.

 

It'll definitely be inspected at Peterbilt.

I guess I could make a couple temporary signs and tape them to both sides with the company name and usdot and mc #'s just in case.

Thank you!