If you pull a trailer, you best read this..

[Keith]

I know this a few days old but...

My bad. Not C&S but C&M trailers out of Ennis. On their price list page the utility tandoms mention 2-3500# axels but no brakes. Unless you specifically ask/order brakes you don't get'em. It's been a few years ago and I didn't know I needed brakes and inspection. Took title to tax office and got registration for a 7000# trailer. Legally needed brakes and inspection but not required at that time for registration.
When I called later and asked about this they said I didn't ask so I didn't get... That's like going to buy a truck/car new and it not being street legal just because I didn't ask for it???

http://www.candmtrailers.com/id10.php

I agree with you, if it is legally required to have brakes, they shouldn't sell them without brakes.

[Keith]

Thats a 4500# trailer. Isn't brakes and inspection required??

"1. Brakes (system) (If gross weight exceeds 4,500 pounds)"

I believe brakes are required for 4501 pounds and above. Exactly 4500 pounds and below is not required to have brakes.

[DaveC]

"1. Brakes (system) (If gross weight exceeds 4,500 pounds)"

I believe brakes are required for 4501 pounds and above. Exactly 4500 pounds and below is not required to have brakes.

Bingo, the article linked early on in this thread states -4501# and up for the increased scrutiny to apply.
I was able to renew the registration online without the need of an inspection.

My travel trailer, no dice. And I'm slated to work most weekdays until the end of the month so I might be finding out what the late fees are.

[Keith]

Bingo, the article linked early on in this thread states -4501# and up for the increased scrutiny to apply.
I was able to renew the registration online without the need of an inspection.

My travel trailer, no dice. And I'm slated to work most weekdays until the end of the month so I might be finding out what the late fees are.

By the way, the tags on the trailer I registered today expired in May 2013. She charged me $56 and changed the expiration date to February of 2016. Since the trailer had not been used in several years, I did not have to pay for the time it was sitting unused.

[denowt]

I went to the tax office today and found out that any trailer over 4000 pounds must have a title and you have to file for a VIN number, even on a homemade trailer.

Also an old law that was rarely enforced in the past.

That's funny cus in Upton county there is not a place to get an inspection sticker lol how's that gonna work

I wonder if the state knows that official inspection stations are refusing to inspect trailers.

Texas transportation code 502.146

(b) An owner is not required to register a vehicle that is used only temporarily on the highways if the vehicle is:

(1) a farm trailer or farm semitrailer with a gross weight of more than 4,000 pounds but not more than 34,000 pounds that is used exclusively:

(A) to transport seasonally harvested agricultural products or livestock from the place of production to the place of processing, market, or storage;

(B) to transport farm supplies from the place of loading to the farm; or

(C) for the purpose of participating in equine activities or attending livestock shows, as defined by Section 87.001, Civil Practice and Remedies Code;

So you don't need proof of any farm exemption to register your farm trailer because it doesn't need to be registered at all you do not need farm LP on a farm trailer it required no LP at all

It's not required, but it only costs $5/year for farm trailer tags, so why risk the hassle.
If you're pulled over for no license plate, at the very least you'll be delayed on the side of the road trying to explain your temporary use of a trailer to haul farm related items.

Thats a 4500# trailer. Isn't brakes and inspection required??

4500 and under do not require brakes or inspection.
4501 and over require them.

[DaveC]

If you pull a trailer, you best read this..

By the way, the tags on the trailer I registered today expired in May 2013. She charged me $56 and changed the expiration date to February of 2016. Since the trailer had not been used in several years, I did not have to pay for the time it was sitting unused.

Good deal. It would have stunk to have had to back pay for the years it wasn't using the highway/road system.

About the 4500 # rating of my trailer, I'm lucky my builder had the foresight to title mine as such, as I can image is a standard practice for a lot of them.

[WCB]

Aha!! 4500/4501#
Clear as mud.

Seriously is, just didn't see that...

[denowt]

Good deal. It would have stunk to have had to back pay for the years it wasn't using the highway/road system.

About the 4500 # rating of my trailer, I'm lucky my builder had the foresight to title mine as such, as I can image is a standard practice for a lot of them.

Just about every 16' tandem axle lowboy trailer I have ever seen is rated for 4500# or less for this very reason to avoid the brake requirement.
I would avoid purchasing any trailer from any of the companies listed in this thread that did not install brakes on a 4501# or more trailer.
IMO that is a shady unethical policy to not install brakes if the customer doesn't request them if state law requires them.

[Mike D]

More and more and more government taxation/regulation/intrusion into our lives.

You know I don't have a problem with this actually. Just maybe it will get some of the Jake leg trailers that have no brakes, no lights, shoddy tires, etc to come into compliance.

[denowt]

You know I don't have a problem with this actually. Just maybe it will get some of the Jake leg trailers that have no brakes, no lights, shoddy tires, etc to come into compliance.

Maybe, just maybe that'll be the case.
However, most of the unsafe trailers I see on the roads are smaller, <4500lb trailers, which are exempt from inspection.

[Tbar]

You know I don't have a problem with this actually. Just maybe it will get some of the Jake leg trailers that have no brakes, no lights, shoddy tires, etc to come into compliance.

Step back and look at the forest and not just the trees.

The phrases....."its for your safety" or "for the children" or "for the greater good" precedes every government encroachment into our lives. There is always a "good reason" for taxing or regulating us.

Since we became a nation how many forest have been cut down to write all the laws we have on the books. This is just one of hundreds of thousands......

[AtTheWall]

My new 2015 tags for my boat trailer arrived today - ROCK & ROLL!