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Originally Posted by mydancingangel
I often see Prevost tour coaches, more with Montana license plates than any other states. Why is that and where do all of these people live with their million dollar buses?
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Probably just a much cheaper place to license them than the owners' home states. Difference can be hundreds of dollars a year!! (Maybe thousands, depending on their state.)
Go to Prevost-stuff.com and look at the coaches for sale, appraisal pages -- first one I looked at was licensed in Montana but the owner lived in Nevada.
In CA you won't get away with that for everyday-use vehicles (sooner or later you'll get a ticket), but for occasional-use vehicles that look like they belong to a tourist... no problem.
My previous tenant did that with her horse trailer -- $30 to license it in Washington state, but over $400 in California!! so she left it listed at her old WA address and kept buying WA plates, and got away with doing so because it almost never left the driveway.
Kind of like how almost all ocean liners are registered out of Liberia, Bermuda, Dutch Antilles, or some other small or 3rd world country (whose total assets may be less than the cost of one ocean liner) rather than out of the U.S. where the fees are MUCH higher. It's a good revenue stream for that small country (at one point, most of Liberia's revenue came from this!) and a savings of millions of dollars for the cruise line, even tho said cruise line does most of its business in the U.S. and/or Europe. But if you don't know this, it looks like everyone in Liberia owns an ocean liner.
