Just a dumb question here. If I remember correctly, the weasle is
amphibious. Why couldn't you register it as a boat? Years ago the
Chrysler Corporation made a thing called a "marsh screw anphibian" that
would go over land or water. This is an interesting problem. Good luck
with it.
Jim 1967 M-715 Kaiser Jeep cargo truck
1983 M-101A1 cargo trailer (usmc)
----------
> From: islander <islander@midmaine.com>
> To: Todd Paisley <paisley@erols.com>; MV <mil-veh@skylee.com>
> Subject: Re: [MV] Insurance underwriters?
> Date: Friday, February 26, 1999 18:10 PM
>
> >I'm just trying to help you out here. If you don't like my definition,
then
> >you can ignore it.
>
> Todd, I know you are trying to help, and that is appreciated. Please
> understand that me not "liking" your definition is not the point here.
> What I am trying to do is relate why this "truck" definition will, in
> reality, fail to get insurance in at least the State of Maine (and I
> suspect pretty much anywhere). In my case I couldn't get the insurance
> in the first place with this definition because I can't get my Weasel
> registered with the DMV since it has no wheels. Even if I did somehow
> get truck insurance coverage (no idea how, short of falsifying paper
> work), it would most likely open me up to high risk if are ever called on
> it. Hell, even the MV insurance companies I called didn't want to have
> anything to do with a tracked vehicle (that should tell us something <g>)
>
> All legal definitions and common perception aside, if you tell the
> insurance people that your vehicle has tracks and no wheels, they will
> stop you right there and say they can't cover you (at least for a 55yr
> old MV). That means it is HIGHLY likely they will challenge any claim
> for or against you in the event you managed to hoodwink them and then got
> into some some kind of accident. They could easily claim they don't
> insure your type of vehicle, so therefore you must have withheld vital
> information, and then declare your insurance policy (which you've paid
> money for) null and void. Even if this wouldn't stand up in court (which
> I think it would) you would have to get a lawyer and challenge them for
> breech of contract (or whatever). Therefore, it is very risky to try to
> fool the insurance folks in this way.
>
> >If your state does not
> >allow you to drive it, I fail to see the problem here. Sounds like you
have
> >an expensive lawn ornament....
>
> I'm not sure what state you live in, or what the laws are there, but I am
> up in logging territory. In the winter, when they are not actively
> logging (which is most of the time in most places) anybody with an ATV or
> snowmobile registration can drive for literally HUNDREDS of miles without
> running out of trails. Normally no insurance is needed for this (which I
> find silly considering all the deaths and injuries that happen), but I
> *had* to have it to satisfy the bank. If I paid cash for the Weasel
> (which means giving up investments, liquidity of assets, and cash for
> restoration) all of these problems would have gone away so long as I
> didn't care about being sued for causing injury in case of an accident.
>
>
> >If you can't drive it on the roads, you can't get it registered.
> >If it isn't registered, it can't be driven right? (What is the
liability
> >risk of your vehicle just sitting?) That leaves only off-road use or
use on
> >your own property.
>
> I'm not sure there is any state that will let you drive on a public way
> with a tracked vehicle. So yes, off-road use and on property are the
> only places I can drive. This is EXACTLY what I bought it for. If I
> wanted to drive an MV on a road I would get something that could go
> faster than 36mph and got more than 5mpg :-) The thought of a semi
> filled with a couple hundred tons of logs coming up behind me at 55mph in
> a 35-45mph zone, while I am putting along at 36mph, is enough to scare
> any sane man into driving off road one way or the other :-)
>
> > Doesn't your home-owners policy cover this?
>
> Normally, no. I was told that a vehicle for anything other than
> maintaining the house or grounds (i.e. a lawn tractor) is not by default
> covered in any way (value or liability). I managed to get liability
> coverage under my home-owner's policy, but only because my insurance
> agent was VERY persistent and persuasive with the underwriter. If she
> hadn't been, I wouldn't be writing this because my wife would have killed
> me due to the higher monthly payments the unsecured loan (i.e. loan w/o
> insurance) would have imposed on us :-)
>
> Steve
>
> ===
> To unsubscribe from the mil-veh mailing list, send the single word
> UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of a message to <mil-veh-request@skylee.com>.
===
To unsubscribe from the mil-veh mailing list, send the single word
UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of a message to <mil-veh-request@skylee.com>.