Can you have your cake and eat it too?

Kayteg1 wrote:

discovery4us wrote:

Kayteg1 wrote:
Than with RV you don't pay all the taxes commercial trailers cost.

CA the trailer would be PTI tags which are only $50 for five years, or $10 a year. One reason many of the off roaders go this route.

Also provides a nice deck up off the desert dirt.

It is hard to find a nice goose neck flatbed,new or used,at a decent price. If I already had the trailer I wouldn't hesitate to go this route.

Sounds like you missed the part about CA "weigh fee" that you have to pay with truck registration.
9900lb trailer with SuperDuty calls for 20,000lb stickers.
Somebody might come with current cost, but is is about $600 a year.
Doesn't Alabama charge for driving on their roads?

I agree with the CA truck weight fee and you are right it will be north of $500. Trailer is separate and as long as the weight tag is 10,000 lbs. or less only $10 a year. Truck and trailer are registered separate. Go to any trophy shop and they will make a plate stating trailer is 9,999 lbs. GVWR and CA DMV will charge you PTI.
Thanksgiving weekend we saw two goosenecks with TC and Jeeps on the trailers. Nice setups with lots of storage for BBQ, ice chests, tool boxes, extra water tanks, and really anything else they wanted. Both trailers were every bit of 40' so it negated the benefit of the TC size and getting into the back country but it allowed them to safely haul heavy jeeps at a much lower cost than a conventional TH. Plus I don't know of a TH that the jeeps would have fit in.