Texas tags or an apportion tag?

A Texas combination plate is around $800 for the year (unless its gone up) and an apportion plate is north of $2000.

 

With a combo plate you will have to pay sales tax. With an apportioned plate you won't. I promise you, an apportioned plate will be a good bit more than $900 bucks. There is paperwork with an apportioned plate. My 2 cents, with an apportioned plate comes a lot more opportunity.

 

Apportioned plates for IRP are pricey, however, at the end of the year when your reporting is done they may issue you a partial refund. The initial cost can be expensive because you have never reported to IRP. Do you report to IFTA? If so, then all the information will already be logged. IRP wants to know the amount of miles you traveled in each state at the end of the year.

 

Are you planning running in State at least 90% of the time? If so, State tags may be the better option.

If you plan on going out of state more than once a month, apportioned tags may be better, because you’re going to have to buy permits for every time you go out of state. Also, running State tags out of state (even with the required permits) you are much more likely to get pulled to the back of the scale house.

 

If you go with apportioned plates, you’ll also have to sign up for IFTA and fill out that report every quarter.

If I was running Intrastate only in my state of TN, there is no way I’d get apportioned plates. For TN state plates, you don’t even have to have a USDOT number, that makes you not even exist to the feds.

 

Does not sound like you need apportioned plates or IFTA. My advice, get regular plates. It is a lot of work to get the apportioned plates and why add on unnecessary hassle?