Illinois registration

You must read your bob/tail insur. care fully it may only give you a time to get leased on to a co. to get your 750,000 or 1,000,000 insur. started, but you can drive to repair shop or to get the yearly dot insp. done if the bobtail insur says so?

 

I would get my own plate, so you can leave whenever you want. If you are unhappy with a company and using their plate it will be much more difficult.

 

He can’t get his own plate without real insurance, and he won’t have that until he has a lease.
OP, take the risk and drive it or have it towed, only you can make that choice. BTW, bobtail insurance only covers you if you are leased to a company.

 

Check on a temp registration truck not for hire

 

In Florida you can get a 'car tag' for the truck and drive it without working it.

I guess it's the bobtail insurance you're talking about. I get my own insurance and tags.

 

You can’t get an intrastate or IRP tag in FL, or any other state, without the liability insurance provided by the motor carrier either. Bobtail insurance is a secondary insurance and won’t get a tag anywhere.

 

You can't get a non commercial, under 26,000, personal use plate, at least temporarily? You would have to have liability insurance, but once you get ready to lease on you could cancel that and get the insurance and tags you need.