Campers with gross mass over 3.5 tons
Been a few reports of border posts in southern Mexico refusing entry to US camper trucks (not regarded as RVs) with gross mass rating over 3.5 tons even though they were previously allowed in at north...
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With bed, fridge and stove what else could it be?? :-)
an empty big box without wheels with a bed, fridge and stove fitted inside.
I hear that some owners get in by using the on-line application for the TIP and it isn't checked when they cross the border. Down south the foreign cross-border traffic is lighter and more likely to be checked. No question that a truck camper isn't an RV unless the camper is permanently fixed to the truck bed, and then the change in status accepted by the registration authority. Otherwise the camper is a removable load and the truck isn't single purpose. Similar to a fiver where the fiver gets 10 years and the tow vehicle (I thought) only gets 6 months. In that case are they going to crack down on the truck if it has a maximum mass of over 3.5 tons.
