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Building a trailer II
Looks like I'm the first Texan to chime in with an answer to your question.
I know that TX has some of the easiest requirements for trailers...that is a good thing. If you're in a rural county, the process is cake. All you need to show the county tax assessor/collector's office is the bill for materials, if they even ask.
If you have a farm, or anything that can be considered a farm, register it as a farm trailer...it's something like $5.00 a year. But if it is for commercial purposes, don't do it because if you're ever pulled over with "farm" plates and you've got "JoeBob's Business" signs on your vehicle, you'll get a ticket for it...so they say.
You don't have to title trailers in TX...just register them, i.e. get plates. No inspections are necessary, either...at least not in my county.
Get with your local Sheriff's office to get an ID number to stamp on the tongue. Back in the old days, people would stamp their SSN on equipment like that...back in the old days, before identity theft.
If you build a trailer and put it behind your vehicle, well, hopefully your skills are up to the test. I will build them for myself, but not for anyone else...besides any liability issues that might arise, there's no money in it. An individual can't compete with big companies (like BigTex)in most cases.
Bottom line is: Don't make it any harder than necessary. Just tell the county tax assessor/collector clerk that you want to register a homebuilt trailer. They'll want dimensions and weights, empty and loaded capacity. That's about it, from my experience.
Good luck,
Mark
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EW, I have never seen the stickers you refer to, and there are a lot of Big Tex trailers around here.
I got this from their website: Big Tex produces trailers from three separate manufacturing facilities, one of which is located in the East Texas city of Mt. Pleasant and the other two located in the West Texas Midland-Odessa area.
I'm not here to promote Big Tex, I've seen others that I thought were better built. But they do sell a lot, and the point I was making is that for the money, it is seldom possible for a man to build his own for what he can buy one for. All because of the power of mass purchasing.
Mark
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