by Oldragbaggers » Wed Jun 05, 2013 9:41 am
Glory be...we are road legal. I have a Maryland tag and a vin plate for my home built trailer!!
I had heard horror stories about how hard it was going to be and I actually had all of my paperwork prepared and ready to send off for a Maine tag, but I really wanted to be Maryland legal, so I decided I would give it a try knowing that if they gave me a hard time I would just walk out the door and send my paperwork to Maine.
I went to a lot of trouble to organize receipts and made a spread sheet of expenses, on which I wrote my "statement" that I had built it. It was expensive (it is Maryland, after all), but really very painless. The clerk was extremely nice, seemed impressed with how organized my paperwork was, and after looking at the pictures I had to submit asked me a lot of questions about the trailer. She ended up looking through a lot of my build photos on my iPhone. What a relief. I still have to get my inspection (don't anticipate any problems) for the permanent sticker. But I have a temporary sticker good until the end of July so we are GOOD TO GOOOOOO. Very happy.