MGVWR and problems titling trailer

Oreonut wrote:

Cwilson333 wrote:
Let me get this straight? A brand new never titled travel trailer? The state you wish to register it in does not matter. This is the dealer and manufacturers problem to deal with IMO. I've never heard of a requirement to have a brand new, first time sold, commecially made trailer weighed to title it. I find it hard to believe that everyone in DE has to go to some state operated weigh station in order to title a new trailer. The COO has the weight and VIN as certified by the manufacturer which is registered federally by law when the label is printed and applied to the trailer, and should be a accepted at face value. There has to be more to the story. R title?

Nope nothing more to the story. Brand new travel trailer purchased in PA with PA temp tags from a well known dealer. We live just over the line in DE and you have to take your trailer through inspection and get it passed (it did pass) then you can go in and register it, pay the taxes and get the title. They are refusing to title because of the weight. If we lived in PA, none of this would have been an issue.

If the CAT scale on Saturday morning states the DMV scale was correct it will definately be a dealer and manufacturer problem. Although they already told us we had to call the dealer but we haven't actually made much stink about it yet.

I don't actually think we have 900lbs of stuff in there that can be removed to get below the limit to pass even if we remove the propane tanks.

Aren't these items included in the dry weight? One aircon, batteries. Propane, awning, stabilizers? We did have the dealer put in the extra air conditioner and they of course didn't mention anything about the added weight and we didn't even consider it. The same trailer from other dealers had the 2nd air in them already.

FWIW good or bad, quite a few manufacturers have had a rash i
Of recalls during the last 2-3 years for stating the weights incorrect where they had to provide new yellow stickers and update the reported info.

I've personally never had to ever have a trailer weighed for a state required safety inspection, registration, or anything else. It just seems wrong. There are numerous legalities involved when a manufacturer records a VIN number and GVW for a trailer that all fall back to them. What you have loaded in the trailer should not matter one bit for anything. So you're saying that anyone who lives in DE and buys a new trailer from PA, MD, VA, or anywhere else has to have it "officially" weighed? WTF? Stolfus is, or maybe was, a fairly decent dealer.