Has anyone received a CA Green HOV Sticker yet?

Took about 20 days to get my stickers from the day I sent the check over normal postage.

There are over 20,000 green HOV tags left even still.

 

Assuming the proposed laws pass and we have access until 2018, more of those stickers will probably be issued.

 

Has anyone received stickers in the last couple of weeks? I mailed my application on Aug 26th, and the check still hasn't been cashed... hoped to have my stickers by now. Someone must be on vacation at the DMV.

 

There is a small group at the DMV that handles these decals, so it would not be entirely far fetched for vacation to be the actual cause of the delay.

 

Thanks Charles, wow, sticker number 0005. You're the man!

 

Application Returned! The application asked for mailing address, if different from residence, I put down my PO Box, so because they didn't have it "on file". the application was rejected.... I had to do a chance of address on-line. Mailed the application right back to them on Saturday, now the waiting starts all over again. ;-)

 

this green sticker makes my life so much better. quality of life has gone up exponentially.

 

Mailed in my application on October 1st, DMV cashed the check on October 11th, hopefully stickers next week...

 

Dealers have the option of preordering HOV stickers. Check before buying your PIP

 

I never heard of this. My dealer made me wait until I got my license plate number. The dealer I bought my car from is a very big Toyota dealership.

 

I don't know about the HOV decals, but my dealer apparently is an authorized DMV agent, and handed me the actual plates two days after I bought the car.

 

Dealers can send a representative to the DMV to register the car and get the plates, but it costs money to have someone stand in line. I haven't heard of a dealer being an authorized DMV agent- sounds like a sales person's blarney.

 

They didn't claim to be an authorized agent; that was sort of my interpretation of what happened. The exact process is not really that important. All that I cared was that I got my plates in two days, and could thus send in my application for the HOV sticker. Mine was my dealer's first PiP.

 

Received my stickers today!!
17 total days
Sticker #22139

 

wow, more than halfway through the quota now! looks like we're set to run out of stickers before the deadline comes near…so…sounds like a repeat of the yellow stickers for resale values! sounds good to me lol

 

Received my stickers today, feels especially good after an +1-hour commute that included not moving in one area for over 10-minutes while the HOV lane was empty!

Purchased car: 09/29/2013
Received plates: 10/16/2013
Mailed application: 10/17/2013
Sticker #238XX

 

I am OCD "pre-thinking." Wondering if anyone else is thinking of how to make the stickers slightly less distracting aesthetically? Anyone mounting stickers all the way down to the bottom edge (partially on the black plastic below the paint: rear)? Either way, show us some pics of your stickers. Before today, I have not even thought to notice HOV stickers. Now driving a PIP,I am sure I will 'noticing' )

Dublin Toyota finance guy say to call in a week to check if they have the Lic # yet (plates to take 1 1/2 - 3 months he said). I just bought my (OK my wife's mostly ) white PIP 2 days ago. I don't know if my wife's commute has much if any HOV lanes
(Her freeway commute: Alameda County; Vasco Rd Hwy 580 to 68o, then 680 north past Bolinger Canyon).

 

3 months to get plates? wow.
i think some people posted photos in this thread. you can also search the yellow sticker-related posts from back in 2004-5…

 

Good point on yellow sticker threads. Must be lots of info on decals, and folks experience. I wiil go there to search (and search here for pics of 'greens'. )

 

I use only the two small ones- on the chrome strip on the left front and on the dark glass under the rear spoiler. No problems with CHP spotting them so far, but I can always add the larger ones if I have to do so. IMHO, the CHP officers know what to look for, in regardless of the instructions from the DMV. This is my third Prius, and I had the same experience with minimal use of the yellow stickers on the two previous cars.