Can't find a definitive answer for under 26000 plates / registration and cgvw

Arrgh. If you're sure of that, it's the safer bet. What I had found didn't say that, but dang... you can get your hands on a lot of bad info... And my local DMV is not a "full service" office, so they know nothing... seriously.

 

No, I do NOT suggest moving any business to Oregon. They positively hate businesses and employers here.

 

Oh, yeah. I forgot to post this earlier. Oregon calls any trailer with a loaded weight over 8000 lbs a "heavy trailer" and it requires commercial vehicle plates to tow it. From the DMV itself:

So, you can tow a carnival ride or a roach coach (foodservice) trailer with a regular plated pickup, even if it weighs 15,000, but you must have truck plates (pay by weight, and they gouge you pretty good) to tow a car trailer that's 8001 pounds.

You can tow your 18,000 lb RV without any special considerations... But not your car trailer at half the weight.

I dunno how much its enforced, as I've never met anyone who's been hassled, but just saying.

 

No, I'm not talking about doing hotshot work intrastate. But, you must FIRST be legal in Oregon, if you own a truck and trailer. Being in any kind of business here, or even just living here can feel like beating your head on the wall. Worse, a lot of public employees who are supposed to know stuff... don't. Don't ever tangle with their revenue people, either. They believe they exist to make people's life hell.

 

LOL, ok. Now that I've got it all straight (thanks guys, you always ask and tell people what you think, so they can straighten you out ) , some of the confusion Oregon puts in their documents is less confusing.

For an example: The 'heavy trailer' designation goes by actual weight. When you buy truck plates to PULL that "heavy trailer" you go by the actual weight you want to carry. In OR, I can't actually tell if they care what your GCVW is or if it's only what you're plated for.

EDIT... Oregon does not participate in UCR.... Not IRP. They were supposed to, planned to, etc... and then failed to meet the deadline.

There's other examples in OR's language, even one place where "gvw or weight" is used.

I'll ask the DMV people more questions... but I'm not confident in the answers they give. OR, in what they do. Many years ago, I bought a pickup that had been sitting out in a field for almost 20 years. The owner signed the title over to me and I proceeded to make it roadworthy. It had one plate missing, the other unreadable.

So, when I transferred title, I bought plates. The original owner had actually gone to the DMV and renewed the old plates, but put the stickers, wrapped in paper, in the glove box in a wrinkled envelope, which had been tossed out.

The DMV sold me plates, but NEVER REGISTERED THEM TO MY TRUCK - nor did they tell me any of this. I got dinged at the DMV later (two years later) AND HAD TO BUY PLATES AGAIN because the plates I had "did not exist" and I had been driving on expired plates for 14 months. When I renewed, I got 10 months out of a 2 year renewal and had to do it again.