#Florida transporter plate driver#
#Florida transporter plate free#

The similarities for Dealer tag and Transporter tags are the obvious, they both can be used to legally transport an unregistered vehicle on the open road with insurance coverage protection of some kind. However, you could very well be picking up a car from your mechanic at 3am, or otherwise transporting the vehicle at 3am to a variety of places, for a variety of things as it pertains to business of that car. But don’t get into an accident at 3am while driving home from the club, with a Transporter plate on the back of your vehicle. How are you using the plate at 9pm? You can conduct car business at anytime of the day or night. When people ask me about not being able to use the Transporter plate after 8pm or 9pm at night, I tell them it has nothing to do with the time, it’s about the functionality.

The intent of the insurance policy is to cover the vehicle for limited driving, and no personal driving at all. That being said, the Transporter tags will be underwritten with a lower amount of liability insurance. The Transporter tags can be assigned to a (licensed) car Dealership or assigned to a transporter company (no license).

#Florida transporter plate free#

No matter which state issues the Dealer plate, you are generally allowed free range in terms of using the plate for business and personal errands because of the higher level of general liability insurance the dealer plates are attached to.

The biggest and most important difference between Dealer Tags and Transporter tags is the insurance behind them, with limits the functionality behind them. So sometimes there is a color difference. For instance in Florida, Dealer tags are white and Transporter tags are orange. Transporter Tags, will have the word Transporter stamped on them and may have a different color than the Dealer tags issued by the same state. But what if I told you that I can get you a TRANSPORTER tag, and its probably good enough for what you need it for?įirst of all let me go into the differences between Dealer Tags and Transporter Tags (also known as plates).ĭealer plates usually say “Dealer” or “Used Car Dealer”, stamped on them depending on which state issued the plates. Contacting brokers like myself and Dealerships directly. People are scrambling trying to find Dealer Plates and Tags for their car enterprises.

#Florida transporter plate driver#

You have to show proof of a driver license for each additional plate you wanted to add onto the policy. Newer Dealerships trying to get multiple plates, have to jump thru a few hoops now. The Dealerships who already had their share of multiple plates were “grandfathered in”. But then around middle of 2019, the insurance companies started to tweak the underwriting for these types of policies, and it’s been a lot harder to get extra plates now if you are a Florida Dealership. This has been going on for years, even before I got in it. This fee can be anywhere from $1500 -$2800 for the year, per plate. They can get additional income by charging a fee for a business entrepreneur to use their plate. Just think about it, you have a Dealership let’s say in Miami, with 5 plates and only uses 2 plates. Granted, this may not be looked upon too kindly by the state and the insurance industry who underwrites the policies. So, as a result, you had a lot of Dealer plates and tags issued out of this state. Florida does not set a particular amount of Dealer tags that any one dealership can utilize. This is a small cottage business that has been served by a small base of dealerships around the country as well as the fringe “dealer plate windmills” for quite some time and still exists. Being that I have been involved in the car business for several years, I have developed a small network of Dealers who make their plates available for a small fee. Dealer tags and Transporter tags are what independent dealers, their employees, and contractors use to pick up vehicles from the auctions, and transport them to and from mechanic shops and things of that nature.

I then proceed to tell them that I have Transporter Tags only. This is a typical response I get, after telling that person that I no longer have access to Dealer tags like I used to have “back in the day”.