Bonus points if u show pics of your ranger toting one…Zero because it's not required.
Exactly. In SC you don’t have to register or have plates on any trailer. Nor do we have to pay taxes on them. I keep insurance on all mine bc of crackheads but all my trailers combined probably don’t equal $40-50/month
It is and I’ve considered a slide in dump bed but it’s 10 yrs old, has only 57k miles, and is honestly 9.5/10 for condition so I have a hard time considering a dump bed where some tard with the loader at the quarry drops a bunch of gravel on my dually bedsides.
3 yds of rock/gravel here is over 10,000 lbs. My GN was about 13,800 on the axles with another 1500 on the truck.
Before I bought my trailer, it was suggested to buy one like that. I would be handy for some things.Fwiw, if we're to get another one, I think I'd go gooseneck and deck over with the fold down sides.
Gooseneck because you can carry more wieght and pulls way better. Bonus, less people will ask to borrow it.
The deck over is handy for hauling other materials like lumber or pallets. Can be loaded from the side with a forklift. Plus it's nicer for hauling equipment, since most equipment is made to barely squeeze in a 7' wide trailer.
Like this
My 97 was same. I bought it in 2019 with same miles as your truck. It's got about 75k now.
I wish it was that simple up here, anything under 10k lbs is $20/yr, anything over has excise tax added on top of the $20 just like a vehicle. Based on book value, not what you paid. Have to run plates on all trailers, at least they just got rid of the inspections for trailers if not used commercially.
That's about what these were. I hauled some for a friend that were over 36. He uses them for carvings.
The good definitely outweighs the bad with our trailer policies. The bad is it just makes it that much easier for thieves to sell your stolen trailer since they don't require any registration. I never had insurance on any trailers until I almost had one stolen and then I added all mine to my policy. Our vehicle sales tax is capped at $500, but where SC gets you is the annual luxury tax on all your vehicles and it varies by county millage rate. Our county is extremely rural so there isn't much tax base. Just got the bill in the mail this week and the dually is $552 this year. Better than the $1200 it started at but still. Once a vehicle hits 15 yrs old it is capped at $75. Annual bill on my wife's Raptor absolutely sucks...
My 16 Ram 3500 with Farm plates rated at 8k lbs is $552. With it rated to 23k lbs it is over $1k. NC is like the gestapo but SC doesn’t really give a **** as long as you don’t give them a reason. The risk/resultant ticket is cheaper than paying the taxes so I have been risking it for the last few years. When it hits 15 years old I will up the plate back to 23-25k lbs.
Yeah Maine likes to find ways to tax people. They somehow consider any trailer with a weight more than 10k commercial even if it’s not associated with a business. Anything under 10k you can pay the $20/yr and get multi year tag.
And the landing gear is powered by the hydraulic system which my fat, lazy ass likes. Till I have dead batteries... I have a warn winch power cable run to the rear of my truck run off a switched solenoid. I wonder what'd take to install a battery disconnect and a plug to the hydraulic pump to simply run everything off the truck?
