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Jan 26, 2002 | 03:47 PM

dinosaurfan

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Trailer registration

I remember from a previous thread that most of the folks out there (everyone but me?) has a registration and plate for their truck. What about your trailers ? I purchased, for 50$, a trailer made from the back half of a ford 250. I nothing to prove it is mine. I've used it for firewood hauling and nobody has ever bothered me. Dad's sailboat is on a trailer that has no plate, and the travel trailer I pull most often has no plate. The TT is old enough that I don't think it has or ever had a title. How do you register that or my obviously homebuilt F250 trailer ? I never really thought about it until I noticed a plate on a friends 32 ft TT. Do most folks get a registration and plate for a trailer ? DF

Jan 26, 2002 | 04:05 PM

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Trailer registration

You'll have to look on the motor vehicle dept. in your Jurisdiction.
I could you find it if I knew where where you lived.
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Jan 26, 2002 | 08:59 PM

Greywolf

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Trailer registration

Back on my land in Tipton County, is a trailer made out of a 68 Dodge pickup ("It's called RECYCLING and it's good fer the planet...") and I went through an ordeal in California over it that turned out to be nuthin'....

They stuck a metal sticker on the head of the hitch that was the "Official California Serial Number" of the trailer, and life went on.....

The sticker and the outdated tag are still on it, but I haven't been through the process in Tennessee yet.

I may scrap that old thing...
It would take a lot of modification to stabilize it right for the highway.

Jan 27, 2002 | 09:35 PM

Carlene

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From: Silver Springs

Trailer registration

A couple years ago we built a homemade trailer for our race car and the only thing we had to do was to take & have it weighed. Here in Fla. trailers over 3,000 lbs require a tital along with having tags. Luckily the one we built was about 200 lbs under and didn't need to be titled. Check with your local DMV to see what their requirements are for homemade trailers.

Jan 28, 2002 | 10:00 AM

jim henderson

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From: So Cal

Trailer registration

All depends on your state laws.

In Oregon, any trailer under 1,000lbs does not need registration. it doesn't even need lights IF you can see the lights on the truck from behind the trailer.

Travel trailers are registered for 2 years at a time. I think the fee is based upon value and for my 98 30 foot travel trailer, I paid something like $140 last year to register it. Cars and truck cost only $30/2years.

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Jan 28, 2002 | 10:43 AM

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Trailer registration

it depends where you are I know here in AZ it costs $125.00
it doesn't matter what size and that ids for a permanent plate
AZ doesn't give out 2-3 yr plates anymore only permanent for trailers

Jan 28, 2002 | 08:13 PM

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here in iowa where i live all trailors need plates and all you have to do is go to the DMV and tell them you've got a homade trailor and they give you a plate and a registration, i got 2 trailors and the plates are like $5 each for a year

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Jan 31, 2002 | 04:31 PM

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Trailer registration

Most cops won't bother pulling you over, and even if they do, it's a minor fine. They would probrably just tell you to register it next time. BUT, your insurance carrier may say otherwise.

Jan 31, 2002 | 07:04 PM

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Trailer registration

LOOZIANA requires a Plate on everything that goes on the road.
If you "Create" a trailer, you have to have the Title from all the Parts and pieces it took to make the "Creation" and then the whole mess can be inspected by the Troopers for correct lights and Brakes if it exceeds a certain weight.

Anything else, requires a notorized bill of sale and a title.

I got a Boat trailer from Texas, that had no paperwork. In two years of advertising for a Title on this forum and two others, I never got it titled!

I finally had to buy a Piece of crap for too much money, and I just moved the paperwork over to the Good trailer.

Feb 15, 2002 | 03:53 PM

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Feb 16, 2002 | 02:07 PM

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Trailer registration

I'm also from Iowa and I have one plate that's been on three different trailers. I simply went to DMV and told them I needed to register a home made trailer. No inspections or anything else. They just handed me a plate with "HMD" for serial no. and a matching registration. It costs me about $10.00/year. Anything above 2,000 lbs is supposed to be inspected by the state police for legal compliance. However, I had my HMD plate (which is readily obvious due to it's size which is the same size as a motorcycle plate) on two double axle car trailers and nobody said a word. Then again out in the sticks where I'm at there's alot of farm eqpt running around and hardly any home built trailers have plates.

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Feb 18, 2002 | 12:41 AM

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Trailer registration

Trailers in Hawaii need plates AND inspection tags. Plus, on a boat triler we now need an additional $25 yearly sticker before we can park in in the harbor parking lot while we fish. If they see a trailer without the sticker, the state STEALS (or impounds rather) the trailer and you cannot go home. Nice, huh?

Feb 18, 2002 | 05:49 AM

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Trailer registration

For regestering a trailer in NC, You first apply for and get a VIN. You have the number stamped into both the tongue and axle. Then you get a DOT officer or HP to look at the numbers and fill out the blanks on the paperwork that came with the number, and then you go to the license plate store and pay your taxes and get the plate. You get a new sticker for your plate every year and pay the annual taxes.
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