From: Ida Heath (spike@defuniak.com)
Date: Sat Jun 19 2004 - 05:46:11 PDT
Half price???? Sounds like another insurance gouge job to me. Mine went
from fifteen ($1500.00) hundred dollars a year down to $182.00 for
liability.
Dave, you still didn't say what state that tractor with an RV plate is
registered in.
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: David Cole <DavidCole@tk7.net>
To: Ida Heath <spike@defuniak.com>; Military Vehicles Mailing List
<mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 10:39 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Licensing big rigs without a second mortgage
>
> I've been digging into this enough to know that the RV plates are the key.
>
> If you tell an insurance company that your Peterbilt and the 53 foot air
> ride trailer you have is a legitimate RV per the BMV, then they really
> won't care. That is a whole different category than commercial trucker.
> You will probably fall in the same category as other heavy RVs such as
> converted GMC highway buses, etc.
>
> Going from a commerical category to a non-commercial category for
insurance
> is a big deal. Like half price.
>
> Dave
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:39:13 -0500, Ida Heath <spike@defuniak.com> wrote:
>
> > Hmmmm, very interesting, thats one I haven't heard of. I wish you
could
> > give us more info on it for our personal knowledge and to pass on to
> > others.
> > I don't guess I need it but I know people who may.
> >
> > A man that I know has a Ford Diesel three quarter or maybe a one ton
> > duelly
> > and he went to Arizona and bought himself a 48 foot three axle trailer
> > that
> > goes up over the roof of the truck and he was cruising back to Florida
> > with
> > three or four old cars on it and Texas pulled him over and cleaned his
> > clock. They told him he was breaking about fifteen laws, ROFLMAO
> >
> > He told me he was going to go get his CDL and get the right tag to carry
> > all
> > the weight, change the data plates on his trailer axles and on and on
and
> > on. I told him he is nuts and is only asking for more problems, weigh
> > stations, etc, etc. I advised him to get his truck qualified as an RV
> > and
> > do his thing. Here in florida if he has a sleeper behind the cab he can
> > put
> > a PVC plastic water hook up and get an RV tag but he wasn't going to
chop
> > his truck up so I said "do whatever you want my friend" Thats been
about
> > a
> > fortnight so I need to call him and ask what he decided to do.
> >
> > Sonny
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Joe Shannon <fordpart@bellsouth.net>
> > To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 4:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [MV] Licensing big rigs without a second mortgage
> >
> >
> >> I was told by the state of Tennessee although I can't find the law to
> >> prove it right now that here you can buy a J11 tag which is 80,000
> >> pounds and drive anywhere you want to in the US. This used to be known
> >> as a farm tag but you can now haul anything that you are not getting
> >> paid to haul and you are not going to sell when you get there. If you
go
> >> over 5000 miles in a year you have to pay a highway use tax though. I
am
> >> sure other states have this also.
> >>
> >>
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> --
> Dave
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