Here's what the new DMV 30-day tag looks like. It's what you put on your car until you get your real license plate.
You'll notice it has the expiration date in big red type.
“It was intended to better identify and track those vehicles that are using 30-day tags,” DMV spokeswoman Marge Howell sayd. “It will make them more visible and easier to track by law enforcement.”
Maybe this will cut down on those faded, weather-beaten "30-day" tags you see on suspicious vehicles -- the ones that look 30 months old, if a day.
Wait a sec: an expiration date in big red numerals, to make it easier on police eyeballs? That sounds like the new handicapped-parking placards DMV was supposed to start using in January.
The General Assembly told DMV that law enforcement officers as far as 20 feet from a parked car should be able to read the expiration date on the placards hung from car mirrors in cars where the driver or a passenger is entitled to special parking privileges because of a disability.
DMV still has not complied. Howell said she expects the agency to receive the redesigned placards with the large-type date, and start issuing them, by late May or early June.
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