TX RV and trailer owners are in trouble.
Read that Tx has a law that all trailers over 4500 lbs must be inspected. Starting this month and after, you have to show proof to get the new tags. Just one more deal to get your cash. Tx trailers h...
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Gearitis wrote:
I live in Waco, TX. We have always had to inspect our Trailers for 4500 lbs and over as this includes car haulers, and some farm trailer. Just last Thursday, I pulled the 5er out getting ready for the spring since weather is finally starting to warm. I went to get our new registration sticker. I had always gotten an inspection after registration. This time I had to get it inspected, bring the official paper after inspection to the county office and get my regestration. The cost at the inspection station was 7 bucks and the cost at the county was another 7 bucks. There is no inspection sticker on any trailer or vehicle now. It is all in the states database. To me its no big deal as I always had it inspected. Folks the cost is still the same, just regulated properly. Before, only 5 percent of Trailers were inspected. Maybe, just maybe, this will catch some of the things that RVers do not catch, like a bad light bulb or a bad tire. Yes it adds a bit of funds to the states system. 14 bucks, spend more than that on soft drinks in a year! Any inspection station that has a large enough area, can inspect any trailer, so don't fret over who can inspect.
IMO, bad (external) light bulbs should be caught at each pre-tow walk-around...same as an airplane. I turn my lights and flashers on each time I hook up a trailer and check all lights before I leave.
Lyle
