REGISTRATION -FEES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1927, Page 19

REGISTRATION -FEES

LORRIES-IN THE STATES

There is a great range in the registration'fees for motors' in America. For instance, in Texas a five-ton truck with solid tires pays 1207 dollars. The fee in- California is 40 dollars. Tho aver-

age tax in all States other than Texas is 220 dollars. In nineteen States the tax on this truck is less than 100 dollars, in eighteen it is between 100 dollars and 200 dollars, in six between 200 dollars and 300 dollars, and in five others between- 300 dollars and 400 dollars. In only two States is it above 400 dollars. • ■■

■ The proportionate difference is almost as great in the-case of a five-ton truck equipped -with pneumatic tires, which in Texas costs 967 dollars, and only 20, dollars in California, while tbe average for all States, exclusive of Texas, is 160 dollars. In the four-ton class is again highest, with a fee of 325 dollars. Florida with a levy of 240 dollars, has the highest rate on threeton trucks. For 2J-ton trucks Florida leads, with 180 dollars. What is true of the tax on trucks is also so of the fees on trailers covering the various sizes ranging from 37S dollars in Texas on the five-ton vehicle to 20 dollars in Tennessee.