Modern Buddy

Where oh where do you put them? So that you can remember when it is needed.

Phone number and VIN in my cell phone.
Card in wallet.
Xerox of card (plus one of my insurance card) in a ziploc under the seat.

+1 for ziploc in the pet carrier, along with registration and insurance

I stopped carrying a purse about a year ago. I now have a wallet/cardholder... jacob's ladder style, holds maybe about ten cards in the slots on the outside with stuff on the inside under the elastic.

I had my insurance card, roadside assistance card, parking decal, and a couple other things laminated on a sheet, then cut them out. I keep the insurance and roadside cards in my cardholder, on me at all times.

My registration is at home. I've been chastised for this, but my mother has always warned me to never keep it in a vehicle- if the vehicle was stolen with the registration/title in it, it would be easy for the thief to go to the DMV forge a few things, and sign the vehicle into his/her own name. The police never actually needed it whenever I was stopped in my car, I assume it will be no different for the scooter.

Do you hae titles in NC? If so, the thief can't just re-register it in his name without a title (or maybe he could, if he was an idiot.)

What do you say when the local police stop you and ask for license, registration and proof of insurance. In AZ riding without a registration is a ticket. Maybe it's an easy-to-get-out-of-ticket, but it's a ticket, and a reason to look for other, uh, irregularities.

LunaP wrote:My registration is at home. I've been chastised for this, but my mother has always warned me to never keep it in a vehicle- if the vehicle was stolen with the registration/title in it, it would be easy for the thief to go to the DMV forge a few things, and sign the vehicle into his/her own name. The police never actually needed it whenever I was stopped in my car, I assume it will be no different for the scooter.

I think you are mixed up a little. You shouldn't keep the title in your vehicle (car or scooter), but you must keep your registration. It's the title that can be used by thieves to transfer ownership. While your state may not require the registration in the vehicle most do. If you are pulled over out of state and can't furnish the registration, you can be ticketed and your vehicle can be towed.

In MO we typically would not be asked for registration - the cops will just run the plate anyway. Insurance cards are another story. Big trouble if you don't produce current proof of coverage.

jonlink wrote:

LunaP wrote:My registration is at home. I've been chastised for this, but my mother has always warned me to never keep it in a vehicle- if the vehicle was stolen with the registration/title in it, it would be easy for the thief to go to the DMV forge a few things, and sign the vehicle into his/her own name. The police never actually needed it whenever I was stopped in my car, I assume it will be no different for the scooter.

I think you are mixed up a little. You shouldn't keep the title in your vehicle (car or scooter), but you must keep your registration. It's the title that can be used by thieves to transfer ownership. While your state may not require the registration in the vehicle most do. If you are pulled over out of state and can't furnish the registration, you can be ticketed and your vehicle can be towed.

You're 100% right, I misspoke myself slightly in the first sentence. To rephrase, I was always warned against keeping the title in the vehicle ALONG WITH the registration for said reasons.

However, I have been pulled before (in cars) and occaisionally admonished lightly but never seriously scolded (or worse) for not having, or in my case being able to find, the registration. They just ran the other information I had, which was my parent's or whatnot. I think this happens a lot, and, at least around here, they would rather go ahead and do that than wait 20+minutes for the driver to tear things apart looking.

LunaP wrote:However, I have been pulled before (in cars) and occaisionally admonished lightly but never seriously scolded (or worse) for not having, or in my case being able to find, the registration. They just ran the other information I had, which was my parent's or whatnot. I think this happens a lot, and, at least around here, they would rather go ahead and do that than wait 20+minutes for the driver to tear things apart looking.

In my experience they'll be equally happy to make you wait 20+ minutes while they check the registration you give them.... seemingly waiting to hear back from the embassies of all of our allies to make sure there are no outstanding extradition requests or anything. Even if all you got pulled over for was having a dead tail light.

TVB wrote:

LunaP wrote:However, I have been pulled before (in cars) and occaisionally admonished lightly but never seriously scolded (or worse) for not having, or in my case being able to find, the registration. They just ran the other information I had, which was my parent's or whatnot. I think this happens a lot, and, at least around here, they would rather go ahead and do that than wait 20+minutes for the driver to tear things apart looking.

In my experience they'll be equally happy to make you wait 20+ minutes while they check the registration you give them.... seemingly waiting to hear back from the embassies of all of our allies to make sure there are no outstanding extradition requests or anything. Even if all you got pulled over for was having a dead tail light.

Bahaha. We had a club member tell us the other day that he got pulled speeding on his Blur on the southside of the city (technically not the city, different county and whatnot) on one of those roads that's labeled 35 but everybody goes 40+ because it's semi-rural and not busy. He was going ten or fifteen over, and when he got pulled, smiled and promptly produced registration and insurance. The cop let him off with a warning, saying, "You're the first person I've seen on one of these things with a proper license and registration on hand." Apparently he was impressed just by that. It seriously makes me wonder about how many bad impressions of the scooter world are given by people on 50ccs with no license, etc.

Thanx's one and all! Pet carrier get's the paper work.

LunaP wrote:

jonlink wrote:

LunaP wrote:My registration is at home. I've been chastised for this, but my mother has always warned me to never keep it in a vehicle- if the vehicle was stolen with the registration/title in it, it would be easy for the thief to go to the DMV forge a few things, and sign the vehicle into his/her own name. The police never actually needed it whenever I was stopped in my car, I assume it will be no different for the scooter.

I think you are mixed up a little. You shouldn't keep the title in your vehicle (car or scooter), but you must keep your registration. It's the title that can be used by thieves to transfer ownership. While your state may not require the registration in the vehicle most do. If you are pulled over out of state and can't furnish the registration, you can be ticketed and your vehicle can be towed.

You're 100% right, I misspoke myself slightly in the first sentence. To rephrase, I was always warned against keeping the title in the vehicle ALONG WITH the registration for said reasons.

However, I have been pulled before (in cars) and occaisionally admonished lightly but never seriously scolded (or worse) for not having, or in my case being able to find, the registration. They just ran the other information I had, which was my parent's or whatnot. I think this happens a lot, and, at least around here, they would rather go ahead and do that than wait 20+minutes for the driver to tear things apart looking.

Absolutely..... Don't cops have that 'built in' dead-pan statement? License and registration, please..........
NEVER keep the Title in the car I think that's printed right on a PA vehicle title.
Be CAREFUL as to where you keep it too!! About two years after my ex-wife and I split up her new boyfriend needed a car, SHE had the title to MY car in hand................. (need I say more)

KABarash wrote:Don't cops have that 'built in' dead-pan statement? License and registration, please..........

License, registration and proof of insurance please...

In Los Angeles, I was pulled over once (car), let go with a warning (long story), and they asked me for licence, registration, and proof of insurance.

That surprised me. "License and registration" is standard, so I was looking it up - they obviously *can* ask for insurance proof, but usually don't for routine stops. Well, in most places. I've read/been told it's more common in certain neighborhoods and parts of LA to do so. Certainly never happened to me in the Bay Area (this'll make me look bad, but not in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Walnut Creek, or Davis)

You are required of course to keep proof of insurance on you, but not necessarily in the vehicle (in CA). But I'm surprised at not keeping registration in the vehicle; I thought that you have to nationally. Doesn't it say on the card it should be within the vehicle? As Jonlink pointed out, it's the title that says do not keep within vehicle. I'm not dogging on ya, just surprised as I've never before heard of anyone who didn't keep their registration (when it's actually legally registered, that is, hehe). I guess in the case of a scooter, you may be able to keep it in your wallet or something, but I wouldn't want to risk the consequences of not having on me when asked for it.