Weight Issue still there

Thanks for the updates. Safe travels to all.

All of you travelling to Mexico with RECREATIONAL VHICLES make sure that if the unit has a bathroom, a stove, a refrigerator and a sink permanentlly mounted to the vehicle that the papers stating the ownership of said vehicle have the word MOTOR HOME or RECREATIONAL VEHICLE clearlly writen rather than pick up truck, or in this case van, this applies to the new "C" class constructed on the Mercedes-Benz chasis with duall tires on the rear, the Mercedes-Benz enclosed units are sold in Mexico and ARE CARGO CARRING TRUCKS, also sold under the Crysler mark ergo the wheight problems at the borders, a porta potty, a plastic basin and a Coleman stove will not make it in a pickup truck at all.

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Quicksilver is listed as a passenger bus and not a motorhome. And the southern border is a lot weirder as far as interpretation of of regulations is concerned. I can only keep my fingers crossed.

And tambien kudos for the update.

I also hope AMLO the president elect is serious when he declares that NAFTA regulations will be much more strictly adhered to.

What is needed is an advocate in the Mexican government. Preferably in the Secreteria de Gobernacion (SECGOB) office. This would take a lot of time, effort and money.

The word motor home is easy to understand by Spanish speaking aduaneros,

Motor.... motor

Home..... casa, hogar

Intrpreted as casa rodante, translated to English, rolling home

All pickup trucks, and I repeat all are clasified as cargo carring vehicles the small ones with 4 doors are clasified as SUV, anything bigger than a Ford F-150 or equivalent in Chevrolet or Dodge is going to be looked at as a comercial vehicle, unless the words MOTOR HOME appear in the registration form and that allows that vegicle to enter regardles of wheight, it is no longer considered a comercial cargo carring vehicle.

This designation also applies to enclosed vans since now the ones with the benches are used as taxis and mini buses.

There was a whole lot of writing some time ago in this blog where the different rules for different importation types of comercial vehicles were downloaded, machine translated and given as those being the correct ones.

Reading and interpreting legal documents in Spanish in Mexico is not easy, simply two words that depending on how they are placed in the document will change the whole meaning and use and intent and completlly changing the outcome of that document.

Machine translations can not and will never be able to interpret the actual meaning and interpretation of the context of the document, even someone that has spoken, writen and read Spanish his or her entire life have a hard time with some of the "lawyer" fancy words used.

So check your documents and have the words MOTOR HOME included in the registration, I know that a pickup truck with a camper shell will not have the words in the registration, get your insurance agent to include them in the policy with some mention that if the camper shell is on the truck then it is insured as a MOTOR HOME, maybe showing this document to the aduanero the light bulb might blink, also show them the fact that it is acctually a home on wheels.

I hoppe that this is of some help, I hate to see folks being turned away for something so simple.

Siempre hay esperanza en esta vida.

navegator

I'm applying for a permit as I write this. The rules say no vehicles over 3.5 metric ton and my 1 ton dually(itself) is over that. Do I just ignore that statement? and continue on. Have a truck camper.

Oops, applying online.

Maybe this will help. Tequila did a great job on this.

http://mexicocaravans.com/permits/onlineapplication.pdf

Well, 5 hours later I got done-at least for the truck. The truck weight is actually about 7450 as I an old scale ticket but with me in it and about 1/2 tank of fuel. The Banjercito website the scanned documents to be in a pdf format and under 1mb in size. Other than getting the scans right it worked pretty slick.

Glad to hear it. Once you've done it once, and have the permit placed in your hand in just a few days, you'll never do it at the border again-even if you had an easy vehicle to get a permit for.

You can now also get your tourist card on line. With that you only need to get it stamped and not have to line up. In nogales at least, it means 5 minutes and you are done.

https://www.inm.gob.mx/fmme/publico/en/solicitud.html