Truck campers and TIP classification
Have an F350 with BigFoot camper on the back that I will be driving up from Argentina on out next trip. When we get to Mexico, will it be eligible for a 10 year TIP or is it classed as a normal veh...
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We will be coming in to Mexico from the south.
when I said No-go - meant that I can't do the TIP on-line because it only allows for USA citizens and Canadian Citizens so that probably means only 6 months instead of ten.
Truck and camper are one unit as far as our plans go. We have other RVs elsewhere so we drive one for six months, park it up somewhere safe(ish) and fly somewhere else and drive around there for a few months and so-on. It would have been convenient to park the truck camper in Mexico for about 9 months while we fly home and then on to Europe (Turkey beckons) but if all we get is 6 months then that might be OK too.
USA isn't a problem because the vehicle is registered and owned by a USA entity, the LLC - as is the Airstream which we took into Mexico last year using a permission note I wrote myself and which wasn't even notarised. We will also have a notarised permission to cover the truck camper just in case they are a bit stricter way down south.
I hope nobody every asks for the title for the BigFoot camper because as far as I know there isn't one. Previous owners who bought the rig in CA never mentioned it and I have all their paperwork. Should I be concerned about this and get a receipt for the camper from the previous owners?? The camper is specifically mentioned on the Poder they signed in Argentina so I guess that might do.
Recently I changed the name of the LLC to " LLC" so our full names appear on the title and the registration paper so unless you notice the "LLC" right on the end, everything matches our passports.
Just more info for anyone planning on buying a vehicle in S America and driving it north - as we have done - the process is actually illegal and getting the vehicle ownership and TIP "laundered" as you cross the border is possible but if you do it wrong you can lose the vehicle or have to pay very large fines as have two parties I have talked with recently. Couple of others have managed it by skipping border crossings altogether, but that runs the risk of not getting into the next country. We have done it once already using an Argentinian Poder (Power of Attorney) signed by the previous owners. That, plus good photocopies of the previous owners registration papers (they don't have titles in England - well not those sort of titles anyway) plus the actual TIP documents. Got us across the border after about 90 minutes of head scratching and then at the border for the next country - which was three days travel away - we presented our genuine British rego papers in my name and entered Chile as normal getting a TIP in my name.
Now have to do it all over again with the new vehicle with the added complication of having to check out with CA plates and documents and check in with MT plates and documents so I need a bit of empty road out of sight of both border posts to make the swap.
All good fun.
"Maybe @ Lukeville/Sonoyta where they give everyone a hard time on everything from pets to meat!"
We had a really easy time at Lukeville last year. Just us crossing and both Mexican and US people just waved us through with a smile - perhaps not exactly a smile, but the US guy at least grimaced a little bit which I thought was a pretty good sign. So far - fingers crossed - we have never been subjected to a decent search or significant delay at any border. Closest was a couple of Chilean SAG (agricultural) inspections which can be pretty strict but which only ever lost us a token carrot or couple of apples.
when I said No-go - meant that I can't do the TIP on-line because it only allows for USA citizens and Canadian Citizens so that probably means only 6 months instead of ten.
Truck and camper are one unit as far as our plans go. We have other RVs elsewhere so we drive one for six months, park it up somewhere safe(ish) and fly somewhere else and drive around there for a few months and so-on. It would have been convenient to park the truck camper in Mexico for about 9 months while we fly home and then on to Europe (Turkey beckons) but if all we get is 6 months then that might be OK too.
USA isn't a problem because the vehicle is registered and owned by a USA entity, the LLC - as is the Airstream which we took into Mexico last year using a permission note I wrote myself and which wasn't even notarised. We will also have a notarised permission to cover the truck camper just in case they are a bit stricter way down south.
I hope nobody every asks for the title for the BigFoot camper because as far as I know there isn't one. Previous owners who bought the rig in CA never mentioned it and I have all their paperwork. Should I be concerned about this and get a receipt for the camper from the previous owners?? The camper is specifically mentioned on the Poder they signed in Argentina so I guess that might do.
Recently I changed the name of the LLC to "
Just more info for anyone planning on buying a vehicle in S America and driving it north - as we have done - the process is actually illegal and getting the vehicle ownership and TIP "laundered" as you cross the border is possible but if you do it wrong you can lose the vehicle or have to pay very large fines as have two parties I have talked with recently. Couple of others have managed it by skipping border crossings altogether, but that runs the risk of not getting into the next country. We have done it once already using an Argentinian Poder (Power of Attorney) signed by the previous owners. That, plus good photocopies of the previous owners registration papers (they don't have titles in England - well not those sort of titles anyway) plus the actual TIP documents. Got us across the border after about 90 minutes of head scratching and then at the border for the next country - which was three days travel away - we presented our genuine British rego papers in my name and entered Chile as normal getting a TIP in my name.
Now have to do it all over again with the new vehicle with the added complication of having to check out with CA plates and documents and check in with MT plates and documents so I need a bit of empty road out of sight of both border posts to make the swap.
All good fun.
"Maybe @ Lukeville/Sonoyta where they give everyone a hard time on everything from pets to meat!"
We had a really easy time at Lukeville last year. Just us crossing and both Mexican and US people just waved us through with a smile - perhaps not exactly a smile, but the US guy at least grimaced a little bit which I thought was a pretty good sign. So far - fingers crossed - we have never been subjected to a decent search or significant delay at any border. Closest was a couple of Chilean SAG (agricultural) inspections which can be pretty strict but which only ever lost us a token carrot or couple of apples.
