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WYnWest

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  1. Randy, All the things you mention are things I'm going to thinking over carefully as I look to register a MH, and yes - Wyoming. The county controls vehicle registration here and it's a circus. First you go to titling department and they title the vehicle - then you go to licencing and they sell the tags. Licencing decides what tags/application they are going to sell you, but they won't make a decision until titling has done their part. Ttitling won't budge - their opinion is that it was built as a tractor - it's always a tractor. Licensing says that if it's a tractor it's commercial. If that isn't bad enough the fees are based on the original MSRP and decline by 6% per year. A co-worker pays $2400 annually right now for his class A MH. If If I based my registration on a 5 yr old HDT, I'm not sure I want to know their fee. MY 5'er is an '07 TH and it was $580 for this year's tags. When you say states are checking for out of state registration I'm guessing you mean that my residence state is checking to see that my MH wouldn't be domiciled at home yet registered in Montana. I can't imagine it making a difference to Colorado or NM or AZ if I live in WY and drive a vehicle from MT. The answer to that is simply to domicile the RV out of state in order to comply with the registration requirements. It would be a LOT easier to register in my local county and I do have the county treasurer's # to call and contact as I get closer to a full on project. The funny thing is - the neighboring county has a person that operates an old HDT as a personal vehicle - but that county says that if you don't live in the county - they can't register your vehicle. There are plenty of ways to work this out. I just haven't found which one I'd use yet. Thanks for your input.
  2. I'm new and this past year I've been looking at a new truck for towing the TH. For now - I'm way over the capability of the p/u I tow with but at the time it was truck or TH, not both. So far we've stayed pretty close to home but recently we've been looking at new pickups. The part that made me feel dumb about coming here is that as a former driver I wonder why I had not ever considered an HDT. So now we've changed goals and fortunately soon enough. In starting to research I've found that my local county is not willing to even consider an HDT as an MH period and they want the outrageous license fees, even when I explained the use - stole some of your pictures for display and said I wanted to spend registration money near home. They are not interested so i figure the eventual plan will be Montana. Couple of thoughts/questions. How hard can it really be as I noted in one post to deal with an RV that is owned by a company? I read it's real tough in Canada and some states. Why would this be any different than say driving a rental from some rv rental place? When it comes to getting stuck - I seem to be a master - has anyone considered a truck mounted winch. One brand MileMarker will run off the hydraulics of the PS. We like to dry camp off in the Nat'l Forest often and I've been stuck bad twice. Fortunately both times it was easy to get someone to winch me out. We won't be full timers just look forward to be often timers for the foreseeable future. Thanks for all the ideas and posts!
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