My camper overhangs about 18" and the bumper on the rear of the camper does hang below the bed of the truck. Still, anyone sitting in a car right behind me could easily see the plates. Sitting in a van, probably not. But from 200' back, no problem. That said, there's a place for the plates on the camper and if I remember before I load the camper, I'll move them. In my mind it's a grey area since the plates are for the truck, not the camper and the camper does have it's own VIN number. Even though PA doesn't title truck campers, isn't this kind of like putting plates on a different vehicle than the one they're registered for?
I've traveled with the plates on the truck, and with the plates on the camper. The only time I've been pulled over I had the plates on the camper, though the pullover was unrelated to the plates. I guess driving 63 mph in a 70 at 11:30 PM in Kansas is suspicious activity. Anyway, as the officer was leaving me he asked if I had any questions. I thought this was my chance for a definitive answer, so I asked him if moving the plate to the camper from the truck was the right thing to do considering the plates were for the truck, not the camper. His response, "Probably." Sigh...
I still move them, but if I forget I don't sweat it.
