TxGearhead wrote:
Kayteg1 wrote:
Side question for those who use truck for camping only, how you deal with registration and insurance?
Even with my good records and liability only, keeping truck registered in Las Vegas cost about $1400 annually.
Good part, Clark County allows for plate surrender and they give me credit for unused fee. Still if I don't use credit in about 6 months, I am at lost, but at least insurance is not playing games with me.
I don't know how y'all deal with that. It's ridiculous. My 1 ton dually registration is about $140 per year. Would have been less than that if I hadn't re-registered it for its GVWR of 14,000. The RAM dealer originally registered it at 10,000#. According to them...it weighs 8,000# and it's a 1 ton , so 10,000. I would imagine 99% of all duallies in Texas are registered the same way. My dealer was totally confused..."why would you do that?"
I'm kinda wondering myself.
We save enough on heating bills to cover the expense :D
My 1999 F450 was registered in California at 9,000 its own weight till about 2005, when DOT officer pulled me over hauling small backhoe on the truck and send me to DMV, where I had to pay $600 for 25, 000 lb GCVW sticker.
There is lot of variables and that is why ask about details.
"Seattle area" for example doesn't say much.
I pay a lot in Las Vegas, but moving the registration address 25 miles away, crossing county line, I can get my fees slashed by 4-fold and insurance likely by 1/2.
In populated areas zip code change every 2 miles and rates can be quite different. Hard to compare to insurance given to truck park at farms.
