Submitted by bostonshopper t3_1201rta in boston
I read about this. So crazy. How is someone to register their vehicle if they dont have a residence there? To register you have to provide some kind of proof of residency. Just crazy.
The dual registration is designed for cases like where someone lives in NH and parks a van in MA for work, it's not for people visiting and the DMV doesn't seem to get that there's no way or reason for people to actually do that
I feel like that is also stupid/ just a money grab. Welcome to Massachusetts I guess
If it were just a money grab, there would be a way for people who live outside Massachusetts to pay a fee and be done with it.
Like a fucking parking meter?
Fill out a form, pay a fee. The requirement to go through an insurance company, when the insurance company will deny you a policy because you don’t live in Massachusetts, is what makes this so Kafkaesque; compliance is effectively impossible.
Yeah, no. Just set a separate price for meters shift to an app that you enter your plate. Why should I register for a year if I only work there 35 days?
I thought is was for college students and transient professors.
Transient professors sounds like a euphemism for homeless people 😂
Shouty ones in particular.
Although those in academia will claim that "homeless" is a pretty good description of junior faculty moving around all the time to try and get tenure...
Worked at a community college with a lot of adjunct faculty. Can attest those trying to use that as their primary income were one step away from homelessness.
College students are excluded from this requirement
> Exemption for Enrolled Students: While nonresidents who are enrolled as full-time students in Massachusetts schools, colleges, and universities do not have to register their out-of-state vehicles in Massachusetts, they must complete and file Nonresident Student Vehicle Information Form
Wait, are you telling me OP could have avoided this entire thing by just getting admitted to Northeastern?
No, they would also have to fill out the Nonresident Student Vehicle Information Form.
<shakes fist angrily and ineffectively at legislature>
Complete a form? What is this? MIT?
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How else is Massachusetts gonna collect them sweet registration fee/excise tax/inspection fees. Can't have randos driving around for free! /s
I mean, I grew up on the NH border and every halfway rich fuck with a second property in NH registered their car to cheat the system at their lakehouse/cabin. Fuck those guys for sidestepping it, but also the RMV for hitting these travelers.
shit, i never thought about this. i feel like im gonna be looking at NH plates different now lol.
Could be confirmation bias, but I always noticed the most dickish drivers around had NH plates. I figured it was folks coming down south and thinking that's how you're supposed to drive in the city, but now I wonder if it's more this kind of thing.
New Hampshirites will of course tell you that MA plates drive the absolute worst. The whole “x state plates drive bad” thing is like this little harmless parody of cultural xenophobia.
But trucks with NH plates drive the worst, no doubt.
Trucks with NH plates are typically aggressive, but in my experience, Suburbans and Tahoes with CT or NY plates are typically aggressive AND clueless
All trucks are aggressive. It just is how it is, doesn't matter where they are from, all the same doucehbags buy black Dodge Rams, it's a personality trait.
Nobody drives worse than those jerks from Shelbyville
It’s definitely a bit of both
It's 100% confirmation bias haha. You see 1000x more terrible drivers with MA plates but ignore it because it's not "different", the second it's an out of state driver it's "ohhh of course they are from insert state here".
It’s for this same reason they make you pay sales tax on a car if you transfer the registration to Massachusetts without having owned it for a certain length of time (a year I think)
I moved from MA to NH, and I can tell you that you don’t save much money by registering in NH. We don’t have excise tax, but our registration cost every year is based on the value of the vehicle. So it’s essentially the same thing, just in one bill from the town rather than split between the RMV and the town.
Also, as much grief as the RMV gets, in NH you have to know where to go for different things. You normally get plates (and yearly decals) from the town office, license from the DMV, but if you want a special plate, that is the DMV too. Inspection costs vary from station to station, and you usually have to schedule them. Everything expires on your birthday, so “Happy Birthday! Now pay your car registration bill!” Oh, and the town office is open 9-4 M-F, and closed 12-1 for lunch, so you might as well take the day off to go.
Yeah, New York sucks with dealing with all that too. It is much more the stereotypical RMV... sorry, DMV... the typical hateful clerks etc.
I think the whole plate thing is to save on car insurance though by having it garaged in another place.
The insurance thing is only true if you don’t have a loan, because most banks require you to carry insurance if you do. And if you have a reasonably new car, you’d be crazy to not carry any insurance on it.
You forgot the best part. Insurance is optional.
Unless you have a loan, because most banks require it. And unless you’re buying a used car cheap, you’re likely to have a loan.
It's not an insignificant number: https://bkwlawyers.com/the-importance-of-having-new-hampshire-uninsured-motorist-coverage/
Though when you look at national and other state averages, it's not bad. None the less, I suspect this is the reason for the law.
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