Looking for Dealer Plate to rent yearly...

[djais1801]

I have started buying/selling used cars, and it is working out pretty well. I am looking to rent a dealer plate, it does not matter the state, but will need to have current registration on it, and I will verify insurance provided.

This is extremely part-time, and the plate will only be used to get vehicles home from sale, to detail shop, and to/from service station if needed.

I am 44 years old, and have a clean driving record.

Please PM me with details.

Thanks much.

 

[Danomt]

Very illegal in my state.

 

[Photon440]

Where I live, people just buy one (or two or three) days insurance to move cars around. Just get a paper license to put in the back window.

 

[modernistsouth]

I don't know about Jersey, but in PA the process to get plates is insanely difficult and time consuming. The auto industry is highly regulated. Just the parameters around the "place of business" requirements keeps most of us out of the game.

 

[Cranky]

Same thing in my area.....the hard plates are assigned to the dealership and that dealership is responsible for that plate. I've borrowed paper tags before too but even the the numbers on those are assigned to the particular dealership and the only reason I got a couple was because I knew one of the managers and even he was a bit reluctant to let me have one and told me to be very careful.

 

[kiwigtx]

It might work out cheaper to buy a transporter - or a decent trailer for hauling cars around. Saves on insurance and road costs with all the different cars you intend to buy & sell.

 

[moparmarks]

Many a hoop to jump through here in CO to get dealer plates and lic. but can get a 3-day transport tag for about 15.00 IIRC.
Might check with NJ to see if they have something of the sort.

 

[Cranky]

In Texas, if you sell a certain number of cars in a year, you have to apply for a dealer's license anyways so with that comes the plates etc. The only way around that is to buy cars with an open title and I quit selling them that way to people I don't know a long time ago.

 

[Bruzilla]

I had one when I worked for Ford. The dealership had six that we used for test drives, but salesmen would forget to take them out of cars, leave them on their desks, etc., so when you went to get one for a test drive you ended up having to scour the area looking for one. I think they were $85 and worth every penny. I let it expire after I quit at Ford and used the tag as a trade-in when I registered one of my Crown Vics.

 

[mopwrd340]

I had a friend that had a car lot and i would use his plate once in a while are use his wrecker he's retired now. I remember people would come in and have a wholesale r plate they could sell cars but weren't held to the same standards as dealers
check your states website to see if they have this .

 

[moparmarks]

In Texas, if you sell a certain number of cars in a year, you have to apply for a dealer's license anyways so with that comes the plates etc. The only way around that is to buy cars with an open title and I quit selling them that way to people I don't know a long time ago.

Same here Cranky. Think you can sell 4 cars in a year. After that they want you to jump through da hoops.

 

[67GTX440]

Dealer license in Florida requires that you have a properly zoned place of business with adequate space to store cars (inside or outside) and a minimum 10 by 10 office with locking storage for records. I know people who have rented space that met requirements for $600 a month.

You can get a wholesaler license from various dealer service companies (search the internet) that will provide you with a dealer tag an allow you to buy at auction, but will not allow you to sell to an individual, only to another dealer. This works if you have a dealer that will work with you and process the final sale paperwork (at a fee) at their location. This does not make for easy evening or weekend transfers on the spur of the moment.

 

[YY1]

Most states have extremely strict laws concerning vehicles sales, taxation, registration, and insurance.

Also in FL, is the "transporter" plate that allows you to drive "unregistered" vehicles to and from auctions, lots and maintenance facilities. All that is required is verification of a $1,000,000 insurance policy.

The wording of this is not very intuitive, but seems like a nice compromise between the sales limitations and registration/insurance costs of a private individual and the expensive and time consuming requirements of a "dealer".

I sure would like to hear form anyone in FL that has had a "transporter" plate issued to them.


Bru- I also find it difficult to believe that a dealership allowed you to keep a dealer plate after your employment ended.

That sounds like a large legal liability on their part.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I've often wanted to get a dealer's plate, but being in MA, I'm screwed.

 

[djais1801]

the transporter plate seems well suited to what I am looking to do

 

[super-bee_ski]

I have not been to Rhode Island in a few years but:
In that state, it seemed everyone had one!
Especially if your last name edned with a Vowel!

 

[Bruzilla]

Bru- I also find it difficult to believe that a dealership allowed you to keep a dealer plate after your employment ended.

That sounds like a large legal liability on their part.

Those tags didn't belong to the dealership, they belonged to the salesmen who bought them. The dealership only had six tags that belonged to the dealership, and out of those six you were lucky if two were ever in the drawer at any one time, and most of the time we would have to go looking around at the cars on the lot to see if the tags were left in them. There were a couple of times tags went home with customers because the salesman forgot to take them out of the car.

The Ford dealership I was at was obsessive about liability. I had always heard sales people could take cars home at night, but not there. Also you had to have your own insurance to operate a vehicle, and if you damaged a vehicle you had to pay for it, not the dealership.

Our tags were paid for by us and had our names on the reg form.

 

[Danomt]

Very illegal in my state.

I have had a used car dealer licence since 1994. I sell from 3 to 15 cars per year. To obtain a licence I must be bonded for 50 thou per year and have a
6 hunderd thou liability policy. I have one dealer plate and 4 demo plates. The dealer plate can be used for anything (pull trailers, across us travel, anything personal) but can only have myself or one of my employees use it. The demo plates are for people to try out cars, they must show a curent drivers licence and legally, me or one of the employees must be with. We break this law sometimes. I cannot loan a car but I can let someone try it out. Try explaning to a customer that if you get stopped this is not a loaner, YOU ARE POSSIBLE BUYING IT> Also any car I put one of these plates on better have a title in my possession. Now this is why it is hard to rent these or loan them out as it would be a way to loose them....

 

[YY1]

Our tags were paid for by us and had our names on the reg form.

So if you ever tried to renew it, you'd have to supply the dealership's dealer license info, and that would be illegal, since you were no longer affiliated with them.

Or were you a licensed dealer, yourself? That sounds like a pretty substantial expense.