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!
That is almost word for word the Michigan code as I recall. However a passenger car *IS* designed to carry property, how do you think the groceries get home from the store, and the modifications to make it towable constitute a RE-DESIGN. and after that it is DESIGNED to be towed in the manner specified.
So it is a trailer.. And it needs brakes.
