Tow Truck or Trailer

bobracing · Sep 25, 2006

pokey said:
havent seen the big killer issue yet. (at least for me) Cost of insurance. The car trailer dosent have any insurance costs while the flatbet will most likely be concidered a commercial vehicle by your insurance co.

Checked on this at one time, was thinking of a F-550, there really wasn't any price difference. This was also for a personal use (non-commercial) rig and it did take a call to the head office because it wasn't your average 1 ton truck.
Besides, have you seen some of the pull trucks that are being used for RVs? If they can be registered as non-commercial, a 1+ ton truck shouldn't have a problem.

skrause · Sep 25, 2006

Trailtoy1993 said:
Damn tough, indnit?

Not really, having arrived home after dark I decided to just leave the truck on the trailer. I guess I could have unhitched the trailer with it loaded, but I was too lazy to do that this morning so the Taco got to stretch it's rods for the first time in about a week. :haha: I'll put it this way, I'm ready to go wheeling on a moment's notice.:clappy: :clappy: :clappy:

GRNTACO · Sep 25, 2006

skrause said:
I'll put it this way, I'm ready to go wheeling on a moment's notice.:clappy: :clappy: :clappy:

You have been notified...........LETS GO!

skrause · Sep 25, 2006

GRNTACO said:
You have been notified...........LETS GO!

Ok :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

Lucky Jeff · Sep 25, 2006

It's only insured as a commercial vehicle if you register it as one.

pokey · Sep 25, 2006

bobracing said:
Checked on this at one time, was thinking of a F-550, there really wasn't any price difference. This was also for a personal use (non-commercial) rig and it did take a call to the head office because it wasn't your average 1 ton truck.
Besides, have you seen some of the pull trucks that are being used for RVs? If they can be registered as non-commercial, a 1+ ton truck shouldn't have a problem.

Maybe its just because I own my own buissnes then. I had the same idea before and found out that the cost was restrictive at best. For the same reason thats why my one ton van is a single wheel (instead of duals) since the cost about doubled