Maryland Mva Low Speed Vehicle: Fill & Download for Free

Here in the U.S., we refer to these “graveyards” as junkyards. The vehicles inside, however, are not junk.(Skip down to your answer if you do not want to read about how I ended up taking my truck to a junkyard.)A year ago, I took my ’98 Mazda B2500 pickup to a junkyard in Baltimore, MD. The truck had died on the side of the road the day before on my commute home. I called my dad to pick me up but, somehow, he managed to get it running. The truck did not have A/C to begin with and it was a [math]97^oF[/math] day.Although this was the first time the engine had failed in motion, it had failed to start five times in the preceding three months (by start, I mean it would not turn over when I turned the key. If I had the space, I could usually bump start it, but even then it was not guaranteed.) The chassis was covered in rust and had steel chipping off. The suspension was shot, the windshield was cracked, and body dented (despite having never been used as a work truck.) It idled high and the throttle would sometimes stick for a few seconds after I took my foot off the gas (which isn’t that big of an issue when it has a five speed manual transmission.) It was difficult to shift into gear (sometimes requiring significant force despite me having the clutch pedal fully depressed.) One of the rear windows was busted (I broke it while trying to break into my own truck by trying to pop the latch on the back window.)The truck was a piece of s—t mechanically. My father had almost never cleaned it (yes, even pickups need to be cleaned from time to time,) nor had he done anything more than basic maintenance (oil changes, tire rotations, ect.) At the time (when I first got it,) however, I could not really afford a car. I could cover the gas and the $100 every six months in basic liability insurance, but I could not afford much else. I was working a minimum wage job and the only reason I had the truck to begin with was the fact that it was a hand-me-down from my father. He gave it to me in 2013 when he bought a new Toyota Tacoma.(As an aside, he technically maintained ownership of my truck; my name was never on the registration. Despite having a much nicer truck, he would insist that he use my truck for hauling the lawn mower to my grandparent’s house (he would handle their lawn care and gardening) and for taking junk (grass clippings, old furniture, ect.) to the dump. I never complained as I got to drive an almost pristine Tacoma with functioning air conditioning.)I knew I needed a new(er) form of transportation. (At this point, I had a job that was bringing in $1,000 a month, so I could actually afford to get a new (read: used) car (trucks, unfortunately, were too expensive.) But, I would still have to get rid of the truck somehow. I tried to take it to used car lots; they didn’t want it. Neither did any Mazda dealers. (Who could blame them?) The truck’s lack of reliability when I needed it most had started to wear on me. I even jokingly considered painting an ISIS flag on the hood and donating it to the Maryland Air National Guard ( of which the [math]175^{th}[/math] tactical fighter group, an A-10C Warthog squadron, is a part of) and asking if they would like to use it for target practice (it was, more or less, what they would have been shooting over in the Middle East, after all. I never painted it nor contacted them. It would have been funny to see the source of my frustrations blown up by GAU-8/A, though.)Since I was unable to sell the truck, and strongly doubted the ANG would be willing to use it for target practice, I ended up taking it to a scrap yard. They gave me all of $400 bucks for it, but that was $400 more than anyone else.(As much as its constant mechanical issues annoyed me, I was actually sad to see it go. That truck was both my first car (or rather, truck,) and the truck I had learned to drive in (I refused to start learning how to drive in my mom’s automatic equipped minivan.) I had intended to take off one of the license plates, clean it up, and hang it on my wall, but those plates had to be turned into the MVA.)NOW TO ACTUALLY ANSWER YOUR QUESTION(Bolded so you can skip to here if you do not want to read about me reminiscing about my old truck.)When a vehicle is sold to a junkyard, it is not completely useless. Even my truck had salvageable components, namely the electrical system. People have bought rims, tires (used tires are ALWAYS a bad idea, don’t buy them,) engine parts, fuel pumps, body components, just about every part of a car, from junkyards.DIYers have even bought components that are no longer suitable for road use for hobby projects. For example, an amateur blacksmith, when s/he is just starting out, can take a brake drum, line it with furnace cement, fill it with charcoal (real charcoal, that is,) and have a functioning forge.Hollywood has used them as well. If the script calls for a parked car(s) to be blown up, why would the producers want to drop money on a car that has functioning components? They will buy a body from a junkyard, paint it such that it looks nice, and let their pyrotechnicians rig it to blow. Hell, just look at where Mythbusters got most of the cars they used (read: destroyed) on their show.A junkyard is like a thrift store for car parts. Everything in there has been preowned. Yet, if you are willing to sift through the detritus, you can find a diamond in the rough, be it a car you can restore or an expensive part for rock bottom prices.Once it has been picked clean by the junkyard vultures (no, I am not trying to sound condescending,) the remnants of the car are crushed and loaded onto a truck (or some other form of transportation, i.e. railroad cars.) The trucks take the now crushed cars to an automobile shredding plant. Here, cars are fed into an industrial paper shredder that has ODed on steroids. The entire car, or what is left of it, is reduced to a pulp of plastic, aluminum, steel, glass, and any other material the car was made of. The materials are then separated, sorted, and dumped into piles.At a latter date, another truck (or rail car) will pick up some of the material from a pile. The plastic goes to a plastic recycling plant. The glass goes to a glass recycling plant. The aluminum, steel, and any other metals (i.e. lead) go to foundries.So, the materials are indeed reused; either as car parts in other cars, or are broken down into raw materials and recycled. Nothing goes to waste.But why are there so many junkyards? We have the third most cars per capita after San Marino and Monaco. (Both of those countries have more cars per capita due to their low populations.) When those cars die or are totaled, they have to go somewhere.