Vehicle sale, critical habitat plates

I am taking delivery of my new truck tomorrow and am wondering if anyone has been through something similar. Last month the tabs on my current truck were due, paid my $374 and called it good. One month later I find myself buying a new truck.

I am being told:
Critical habitat plates cannot be left on my old vehicle, new owner must buy his own plates. (why not let the new owner drive the vehicle with the existing plates and replace them when the tabs are due?)
They can however be transfed to my new truck for $5
I must buy NEW tabs for my new tuck whether I transfer my old plates or get new ones.
There is no refund or price reduction to offset the cost of my 1 month old tabs to my new tabs.

So, I just paid close to $400 one month ago to tab my truck, I am basically tossing that money out the window to the state and they are making me buy new tabs for over $500 and they keep my $400 for a vehicle that was used for one month before needing the plates removed?

I must have missed this when I did this before. I do not think it was even offered to me to transfer over my plates on my previous truck purchases.

Oh, the new truck is a 2012 Sierra SLT with the 6.2L

were your prior plates Critical Habitat ? You pay an extra $30 per year to have them, so that is probably why they transfer them for $5. we need Jesse back to straighten this tab stuff out again

In Iowa your plates stay with your new vehicle and pay any difference..prorated..

That can’t be right…. you got currency exchanges up there in the great white north?

Yes, plates on all of my previous trucks have been critical habitat. Prior to this purchase, I had never been offered the chance to transfer them so I probably never realized the state seems to have a scam going on. This is a $40k + rig, it is more in principle that I am P&Ming about $400.

Just seems to me, if the next owner cannot use the 11 months remaining on the tabs I just purchased and I can transfer my plates with those tabs to my new truck, I should pay the DIFFERENCE in registration tax on the value of the new truck versus the value of my old truck. This would send the state about $200 more from me, not $700.

The state would still see the revenue from who ever buys my old truck and buys plates/tabs for it.

You need to transfer your plates to the new truck. That is what I have always done and been told to do.

When I bought my truck they transferred my old habitat plates to my new truck.

If you can afford to pay 40K for the new rig, I am sure the 400 for the plates will be soon forgotten

I just had the same thing happen to us
$562.00
SUCKS!!!!
and only $30.00 to the DNR
oh yea X2= $60.00
DAM MN. COMMIES

guys, guys…think about the tax deduction that you can use the coming year. Now you have a double deduction.

Does this make you feel better?

Sounds wrong. My buddy got a truck with habitat plates and he was able to run them till he needed tabs and then paid 10 bucks for regular plates next time he needed tabs. I’d check another license center

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If you can afford to pay 40K for the new rig, I am sure the 400 for the plates will be soon forgotten

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That’s just what the government wants us to think.

habitat plates can always transfer, but sometimes the dealership gets confused on it. on my last truck purchase, i had to argue with the dealership that i can transfer my plates for $5. they swore up and down that i could not do that, until they called the state….

do not trust anyone at the dealership any further than you can throw them…

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we need Jesse back to straighten this tab stuff out again

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He left us quite a legacy with the tab situation and all because he was pee’d off when he went to get tabs for his new Porsche…

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do not trust anyone at the dealership any further than you can throw them…

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Yes, all dealerships are the same….if one does not know, none of them do

The dealership knew I could transfer the plates to the new truck. What makes no sense to me is they told me they could not sell it with my old plates, they would come off regardless if I transfered them or not.

What miffs me is the $400 I paid for tabs last month is gone according to them, I need to pay an additional $500 something for new tabs to cover up the ones I bought last month with no credit for the money I just spent on the last ones.

If the plates could stay with the old truck, at least the new owner could get 11 months of use out of them. I am being told that cannot happen. I have no clue why. If the plates are valid and the tabs are valid, except for being greedy, why would the state care WHO owns the vehicle until the tabs expire. The special fee for the plates and the cost of the tabs is in the coffers already. I am gonna swing by the city hall registration center on my way to pick up the truck and ask.