Down side of building a TTT in Florida—DEALING WITH THE DM

[cracker39]

I took all of my receipts, weight slip, and photos of my PT to the DMV. Just like the last time, five years ago, no one in the DMV office had a clue about how to register a home-built trailer (i.e. in Florida DMV lingo, an “assembled from parts trailerâ€

[Dale M.]

NEVER EVER volunteer any information when dealing with and state DMV drones...... Only answer their questions with minimal information so you don't confuse them....

Dale

[Mightydog]

Dealing with the DMV is like getting pulled over by a cop. Keep you hands where they can see them, answer questions with a 'yes' or 'no'.

Good to hear that you can go down the road all legal like.

[Alfred]

Name, rank and serial number - That's all I'm sayin'

Congrats on getting it tagged!

AL

[mikeschn]

If I should ever build another one, I'll just have the chassis tagged then build on it. That will save a lot of hassle with the DMV.

Sounds like a really good plan. So what is number 3 going to be?

Mike...

[bmacke]

I"m glad you got through all that, I sent my wife to register our TD- she's better at that sort of thing. I think I just sent her with a ticket from the landfill scale. The less info, the better.

I would love to see the PT someday, I'm just over in Lakeland.

Have fun taking it out now that the weather is cooling off.


Brian

[CAJUN LADY]

I had no issues whatsoever when I went to get my Teardrop tag. I told them it was a home-built trailer, produced the bill of sale and that was that. Paid my fee and got my tag.

[cracker39]

Now, it looks like I have to go have fun with the DMV again. My little one-person pontoon boat I am building has to be registered and titled as it will be powered by a small electric trolling motor. If a boat is powered by electrical or mechanical means, it has to be titled no matter how small. My pontoon boat is costing me about $250 to build and weighs 105 lbs, yet it has to have a title and boat sticker and numbers on the "hull", which I guess is one of the pontoons. The DMV probably won't know how to do this one either since I made it.

It's not finished yet. I'm finishing up the fiberglass resin and cloth tape tomorrow and starting the priming and painting. I plan to use it while camping next week. The pontoons will go on the truck cap on a rack and the platform inside the back of the truck for traveling. I'll post photos when it's finished.