Buddy of mine is going to have fun dealing with NC DMV tomorrow. His adventure actually began yesterday when he got pulled by a Highway Patrol officer to check the fuel in his F350 work truck (because he has a fuel tank on the back). He just got stopped a couple of months ago by a DMV officer to let him know he had a light out on his trailer, and as far as the "legal" aspect of everything he was OK. This time, when the officer ran the VIN it came back saying the truck was stolen.....in 2004..... Now my buddy has all of his paperwork, showing that the truck is his, so ownership is proven. Thing is because the database he looked in says it"s stolen the officer has it towed.
Buddy made a few calls today and discovered that the truck was in fact stolen in "04, the insurance gave the owner a check for a new truck, the truck was eventually recovered, and had the title reissued to the "new owner" at that time. Problem is that certain paperwork, or something was neglected and the database the officer used never got changed to reflect that the truck was recovered and was now legal again instead of stolen. Now my buddy is on the hook for a $200 plus tow bill, storage on the truck for probably two days (at least another $50 to $100), not to mention the work he missed yesterday being stopped and going through all that crap, plus the crap he"s going to have to go through tomorrow to get everything straightened out.
The sad thing is that I"ve got one of my customers that went through a similar incident with a semi he bought. In his case the whole incident was a bit more complex and it took him nearly a month to get things straightened out. In that time they had to research the theft report, determine that the truck wasn"t stolen anymore, and, in his case, ultimately had to give the truck a new VIN number to make everything legal. I talked to the DMV officer that came out to put the new VIN on the truck and he said that problems like that are a big part of what he does.
In the end it all comes down to our "public servants" not doing the job our tax money is paying them to do...and we"re paying in even more to pay other people to get it straightened out, plus paying for the "side effects" like tow bills, time off work, etc, etc.
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