If I had to do it over again I don't think I would get the 10 000 pound GVWR on my F-250 diesel.

I just got my licence plate renewal sticker and it is for $181 for one year. When I questioned why it is more than double the price, the licence bureau guy told me it was because the vehicle has the 10 000 GVWR and if I had the 9 900 rating my licence sticker would have been $74. What a rip off!

Guess I passed some kind of threshold price where the costs rises to a new level. So beware new buyers on this little known fact. Live and learn I guess.

P.S. - Happy New Year

 

What state are you in? Here in MA i had to stay under 10,001 to get the cheap plates.

 

Thats why 9,900 for the 250 and the 10k for the 350 exist

 

It really depends on how your State collects property taxes.

My state it is totally on the value of the vehicle. But I remember as a kid my dad having to put 6,000 or 9,000lb stickers on his pickup trucks and being taxed based upon those weight ratings. But Utah has discontinued that practice.

Its why F250 are more common in some states and almost everything around here is a F350.

 

I am in Ontario, Canada. I had a Chev 2500 before, not diesel, and paid way less for the sticker for the plate. It is not that it is diesel, but that 10 000 magic mark. And it doesn't matter if a F-250 or an F-350, it is that 10 000 mark that counts. (An F-350 is over 10 000 though)


I just wish I knew that before getting it added. That 100 pounds extra GVWR is costing me a lot of extra bucks every year and I am sure the trade off isn't worth it. All that for the extra 100 pounds on the front of the truck.

 

If it's in Ontario, why is the "magic weight" in Pounds?

Are you guys not allowed to register the truck as a personal vehicle and not have to deal with any of this? Here in AB the 4500kg requirement for logbooks and regular inspections is only if you register it commercially AND for over 4500kg... you see a lot of loopholes with companies registering vehicles for 4490kg.

 

The trucks are built in Kentucky, and if I remember the government doesn't put the weight in kgs. However, I am trying to think if the plate on the door doesn't have both pounds and kilograms but will have to check. The truck is registered as a personal vehicle. I think it is in kgs but the invoice is in pounds, since it comes from Kentucky. I kept the invoice. I had the truck built as a special order as none on the lot or area had the option list I wanted.

 

No yeah I know, but my question was more along the lines of why are your provincial regulations specifying weight classes in pounds instead of kilograms? I'm trying to dig up this info on the MTO website but it's not clear to me.

The door sticker has both. If you didn't import it yourself it would have the CMVSS sticker which has the kilograms listed first, then pounds in parenthesis beside it.

 

Ok, so the prices you are saying that you paid in your first post don't agree with what is on the ServiceOntario website. Who's right?

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You got the right truck, but you live in the wrong state. I just renewed my 2012 F-350, 11,500# rated and the fee was $67.50.

 

Wow! and my rate this year is $181.00. Last year it was about $142.00 if I remember right. The $74 dollar one was for the Chev 2500 and that was about 3 years ago but that truck wasn't 10 000 GVWR. We are getting ripped off up here in Ontario for sure. And our diesel isn't any cheaper either.

 

Our Diesel is more expensive than gasoline, currently $3.64 p/gal. but lately we have received your winter weather, they call them Canada Cold Fronts, heck it snowed on Christmas Day.

 

Both my '08 F250 and '11 F350 had 10,000 lb GVWRs. Both were diesel crew cab 4x4s also. So just going down to an F250 wouldn't help anything unless you get the gas engine.

 

True that.

 

You guys don't know how good you have it. The renewal for my '12 F250 next month in Nebraska will be in the neighborhood of $500 bucks.