Except for the Texas based companies with trucks and trailers that operate solely out of an out of state terminal, and/or the independent o/o who is just like a fulltimer, registered here but never comes back. Texas has only recently (2yrs ago?) begun to allow multi year registrations (as was mentioned above by whj) to attract the Texas companies that have all of their trailers registered in Oklahoma, Louisiana and other states that already had multi year and none expiring trailer registration. With this new inspection program, the step forward they made two years ago will instantly be undone. Commercial vehicles are required to be inspected and there are many ways to obtain an inspection without having to return to Texas. Token trailer license plates no longer have expiration date stickers on them either, so the registration can be renewed easily even if the trailer is not in the state. This new law will change that and require Texas registered trailers (including RV's) to come back to Texas for an inspection. That won't happen. The carriers will simply change their state of registration, costing Texas a lot more revenue that any amount of RV'ers.
"If this becomes law as currently written we will change our domicile to SD or Florida. "
"if this goes through then we will go with Florida as there are no annual inspections"
"But if it stands, I will have to leave TX."
Hmm, I guess you define threat differently that I do.