mowermech wrote:
Montana Code Annotated 61-1-101 (82) (a)and (b):
""Trailer" means a vehicle, with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and constructed so that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle.
(b) The term does not include a mobile home or a manufactured home, as defined in 15-1-101.
A passenger car or pickup is not designed to carry property (it is designed to carry PEOPLE), and is not designed to be towed by a motor vehicle (it has to be modified for that purpose). It is not a trailer in Montana.
Neither is a pole trailer or a mobile home or a manufactured home!
Interesting... It strikes me that no conventional hitch drawn trailer meets that definition. I have never seen a conventional trailer that didn't have some of its weight resting on the hitch (tongue weight), failing the "...constructed so that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle." test. On the other hand, a toad actually comes closer to meeting that definition by virtue of placing no weight directly on the hitch, and being designed to carry both people AND property (pickup bed, trunk, rear cargo area).
