Antique plates no longer allowed for Kansas heavy farm vehicles and commercial trucks

The changes are effective immediately

The State of Kansas has changed registration criteria for antique trucks used for farming or commercial use.

Effective immediately, trucks that are at least 35 years old and with gross weights over 12,000 pounds are no longer allowed to use antique license plates.

Trucks under the 12,000-pound gross weight target can continue to use the antique plates.

In Kansas, a one-time $40 fee is required for an antique plate and doesn’t require renewals.

Under these new changes, vehicles intended for farming, hauling, or commercial purposes must have proper farm or commercial registration.

A $10 title fee, plus a registration fee based on the truck’s weight will be required.

A truck with a gross weight of 16,00 pounds, for example, will require a yearly fee of $69.95.

And a truck with a gross weight of 85,500 pounds will require an annual payment of $757.25.

Kansas Highway Patrol will begin enforcement with a grace period to issue warnings and inform drivers of the changes.

This will evolve into the police issuing tickets.

Online, Kansans aren’t happy with these new changes.

These new rules feel like it targets farmers, one user said.

“Yes let’s milk the small farmers with some more fees for doing things the old way with equipment they have had for years,” Jared Schults wrote on the Ellsworth County, Kansas Facebook page. “More taxes and fees is all the government wants. Can’t let us save money where we can.”