New Mexico Trip Tax Permit $60!!

####......You can't purchase a trip permit at the Port of entry like others? That's ****ed up.

 

Entrapment. That is how Oregon operates.
ODOT 503-378-6699 expects you to get your permit online or calling that phone number with a valid credit card and a valid fax number, and you are expected to have a hard copy of the permit in your possession before you hit the state line.

 

That's not entrapment, you may not like it but it's not entrapment....

"In criminal law, entrapment is a practice whereby a law enforcement agent induces a person to commit a criminal offense that the person would have otherwise been unlikely to commit."

 

No it doesn't. It should I agree but it doesn't.

 

A few years back I ordered a trip permit when I got loaded in Portland and headed east on 84.
When I got to the scale (Cascade Locks) I was flagged to come inside. When I got inside they said I had no permit. So I showed it to them on my phone. They looked at the time of issue and the time was after I crossed the scale and before I walked into the building.
They gave me a ticket for no permit upon entry, ticket was almost $500.00
He did say an electronic copy of permit was legal. Faxed to office and emailed to me.
I do have an annual permit now and I did pay the $2,000.00 deposit. The bright side is it includes an annual Oversize permit valid for 12'wide and 14'tall. I don't use it much. I try to stay out of Oregon.
Trying to get those single trip permits was a pain. You would think Oregon would join the 21st century and use email for permits but only fax. PITA.

.http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/MCT/docs/EntryPolicy_TaxRegistrationCredentials.pdf

 

I haven't been to Oregon since about 02 or so. I try to stay outta the rest of them horses ### money grabbin states to. Just isn't worth the headache anymore. I do pull fertilizer outta Carlsbad usually if I get out in West Texas as it's the only thing around. I just dodge the coops. Course I do that every time every where

 

People like to complain about California but I'll take California over Oregon any day of the week

 

Oregon is a state it has become hard or many miles to go around coop.
Oregon is where I learned to drive,delivering in the Northwest. I knew all the back roads, Lot of fun years ago. Not so much any more.

 

It's becoming harder everywhere honestly. I always really enjoyed the drive itself up that way, no more than I took it it was a risk reward decision not to continue. Colorado has become tough too.

 

I used to try to go to the Northwest a few times a year. Like the drive along 90 into Seattle or over 80 to 84 into Portland. Don't see myself getting there anymore this year with the I-90 bridge detour in Montana. That and not much freight coming back East.