Insurance question - Stolen tow vehicle
This might not be the right forum - please advise if so. I tow a cargo trailer to shows and events, so not a camper but the issue is the same. A month ago while in Dallas my van was stolen from a ...
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Lew Schiller wrote:skipro3 wrote:
For that price, I would have contracted to have the trailer delivered with a trucking/shipping/transport company. My best guess is maybe $400 to move it. Any company that can transport a car should be able to handle a trailer. I once bought a 22' pontoon boat with tandem axle trailer of eBay in El Paso, TX and had it shipped to Sacramento, CA for $400.
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42 cents a mile for 1,000+ miles.
That approach isn't viable.
If I shipped the trailer how do my wife and I get home along with everything we had in the hotel room? Can't fly with all that and in any event air fare would be around $500 for last minute one way tickets for two - plus Air Fare isn't covered at all.
Can't rent a $25 car - those aren't one way rates.
I'm gathering that nobody here has coverage that's any better than mine in the event the tow vehicle is stolen away from home which is why I posed the question. To find out if I should be looking elsewhere and as a cautionary tale.
It might be a CDN / US difference, but I use State Farm because I get a substantial discount for having many properties and vehicles insured with them.
When my F-350 was stolen in Miami a few years ago, 1,500 miles from home, they gave me 2 options. They would ship my trailer home for free and give me a rented car, or they would give me a Suburban / Excursion and I could tow the trailer myself
Up here at least they call it “loss of use” coverage, it provides for a replacement vehicle comparable to the insured vehicle.
