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Posted by Russ Roth [24.21.77.67] on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at 22:26:34 :
In Reply to: Re:Nevada & Idaho checked posted by Mike in Md. [96.244.206.53] on Monday, July 09, 2012 at 20:46:07 :
They check the frame #'s in WA. I have a different cab on my '67 W200 but the door tag is from the original. It's that way because Dad bought it new and even with a replacement cab I wanted the original tag.
I had been to the inspection station several weeks prior with a trailer and while they were polite I did not like them acting like I was a wild terrorist when I started to get out of my rig. Made me go stand clear away from the building.
When I drove in with the PW I didn't look at the guy as I handed him the paperwork. In a couple seconds I hear "hey, I know you!" I look and see Steve Crampton, a (former) Multnomah County Deputy I had known professionally on the other side of the river in OR! We chatted a bit then he got down to checking things out including the frame #. When he looked at the door tag he knew right away it had been changed because it does not have correct rivets. He says "you know they don't like that." I explained to him why it was that way and he let it slide. Likely because he had known me for probably 25 or more years.
Normally what would happen is they would put a state VIN tag on it and then I would have to wait 3 years for the paperwork to be formally in my name in WA.
I was not a truck driver as a career but did for a few years before I was fortunate enough to become a career Firefighter. I drove part time through my years as a FF and continue to drive part time even now.
I haul crushed cars and we have some contractors that also haul for us. One of the contractors had a pretty nice Pete tractor that he had a driver on. He was just about to pull out of the yard he and I were hauling out of when a fella shows up with 2 guys that appear to be police officers. They have a title that says the truck belongs to him and they are taking it. Threatened Mike with jail and he let them drive off with the tractor. In the end the contractor had a title with a cab # and the other guy had a title with a frame # and he has the truck to this day. We see it every so often.
I don't really know everything about this but somehow i think there HAS to be a fly in ointment somehow. I can't imagine a couple cops showing up and just handing a rig over to a guy like that. I think it would have been confiscated while the paperwork and story was sorted out. If it had been me they would not have gotten the rig without me calling 911 and getting another police jurisdiction (state) there to find out if this was all legit.
This incident happened in OR about 3 years ago. My personal suspicion is the guy that has the rig now is a crook and there is another Pete out there that has the cab that should be on this one and the same shenanigans were pulled on someone else. I was told he not only ran trucks but was a wholesale used truck parts outfit. Hmmm???