call from the Florida Highway patrol
Wanted to know if I had a missing trailer??? Looked out the window and seen my trailer if GONE!!!!!!!!!!!! Yup. Then they asked me if I knew so and so. Yup. My nephew. He took it without telling me, to take his motorcycle to his grandmothers house in Tampa. Told the officer he was my nephew and it was okay. They then informed he was getting a ticket for no insurance card . Serves him right. I would have gave him the card if he asked to borrow the trailer. Everyone takes my trailer without asking. Starting to get me upset. What if I need it and it's gone. Sorry for the rant, but my wife's family is very ignorant when it comes to stuff like this.
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Family members/ friends borrow my stuff occasionally, but I draw the line at trailers and chain saws.
And firearms. My BIL borrowed a Savage 110 in 30/06 to go mule deer hunting and brought it back with blood on the barrel. Since then (1985) there has been pitting where the blood was and I think of it every time I handle the rifle.
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That's why my trailers all have a lock on the hitch. You're welcome to borrow it, if you ask.
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Mine are locked in the shop...... they still get 'borrowed' from time to time....
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EXACTLY! No one is "borrowing" anything from me without cutting off a lock. And THEN we are going to have some serious problems.
Merc
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That's why my trailers all have a lock on the hitch. You're welcome to borrow it, if you ask.
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Never heard of a utility trailer having to be insured separately and a card being needed, it's usually covered by the vehicle it's attach to when in use.
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That’s not OK.
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So it is not locked down? In Jersey? A lock would at least keep the relatives from stealing it...
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well they at least called to check on it
but sad you found out thet way you did very frustrating
I have owned a car trailer of model or another for 40 some + years our car insurance covers the trailers I have ask many times to cover my butt
I use to have friends that use to borrow it ( which ever trailer I had at the time ) the one that used it the most passed away about 10 yrs ago .
About 30 yrs ago he borrowed it and did ask however he then loaned it to a cousin of his ( he did not think i would mind ) well then the cousin loaned to a friend and and then another friend and so on 😲 it took me a week to get to the last friend of a friend who had it and back home. no one thought it was wrong or thought to ask me ☹️
I would have let any of them use it but dang it 😣
currently I have a car trailer and a couple small utility trailers and my youngest son never ask ( 😣 ) but he does return it or let me know before the day is over . I keep a lock on the car trailer but he knows where the key is .
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LOCK AND CHAIN
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You should have really made his day and told the Trooper, you had not told anyone they could borrow your trailer. 🤐
I (at one point) had the longest extension ladder in our holler. Word got out and any and everyone borrowed it. Got to the point it would just disappear. (Had it hanging on the backside of one of my sheds.) One time it disappeared for weeks. I went looking for it, asking around. "I think ***** has it, building his outbuilding."
Yep, there it was, propped up against his (now finished) outbuilding. Covered in mud/clay where it had been on the ground. I was not very happy. Told him, "Dude you were welcome to borrow it, but really, weeks and weeks and I had to go looking for it?" 🤔
I sold it shortly thereafter. Now I need to borrow it. 😂
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You need insurance on a TRAILER? Wow.
I can insure my trailers against theft, but if they are in tow, they are covered by the insurance policy of the towing vehicle.
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He may not have had insurance on the vehicle. Insurance is not required on a trailer in Florida.
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He may not have had insurance on the vehicle. Insurance is not required on a trailer in Florida.
Didn't think so, I've pulled utility and boat trailers in & out of Florida going to the Gulf many times and had no problems, even going thru road checks it was never even questioned. Thanks for verifying.
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Wanted to know if I had a missing trailer??? Looked out the window and seen my trailer if GONE!!!!!!!!!!!! Yup. Then they asked me if I knew so and so. Yup. My nephew. He took it without telling me, to take his motorcycle to his grandmothers house in Tampa. Told the officer he was my nephew and it was okay. They then informed he was getting a ticket for no insurance card . Serves him right. I would have gave him the card if he asked to borrow the trailer. Everyone takes my trailer without asking. Starting to get me upset. What if I need it and it's gone. Sorry for the rant, but my wife's family is very ignorant when it comes to stuff like this.
I love my nephews BUT, if you want to borrow something ask. Around here we all know I am going to say yes but you need to ask first..
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A neighbor wanted to borrow my utility trailer but all he knew was that his pick-up had a "square hole thingy" in the back. So, instead of letting him learn with my trailer, I spent the afternoon towing it with my vehicle & helping him. Somehow he was insulted, never said thank you & bad mouthed me to other neighbors.
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Here is my old registration. The insurance card is in the truck. In NJ, you have to have both. Sucks, but that is the rules here.
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Trailers in Florida do have a registration and a tag, they just don't require insurance. I assume that any liability would attach to the tow vehicle which of course does require insurance.
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"Neither a borrower nor a lender be..."
Profound advice. Stand on your own two feet and tell the guy he can go to the renal place and get all the tools he wants.
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Trailers? Sometimes I have to drive around the farm looking for the one I want/need. Went looking for one last week and didn't find it here. Asked Son and discovered it was sitting on a farm he rents with a blown tire--still loaded with what he was hauling.
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I have what they call a ball lock. It is actually a ball with a huge cylinder. Wife left the lock off, after using it to haul hay for the horses. If he wasn't my nephew, I would have put my foot where the sun doesn't shine. Just kind of torqued me, for not asking first, on such a long trip. Trailer came back today with a set of new tires. He said they looked worn, so he replaced them. Now I can't even get mad at him. 😕. We did have a little talk about asking permission in the future and about being respectful. He apologized several times and thanked me for bailing his out with the cops.
PS. I was wrong about the insurance. Your vehicle that you are towing the trailer needs insurance. Donna said it just has to be registered. He got a ticket for no insurance card on his truck. He has insurance, but didn't have the card in his truck. He was going to fight it, but I told him to just pay the fine and be done with it. 38 years old and zero common sense, along with a bad attitude and some other issues. Be glad when he moves down there permanently. To be honest, not very well liked by most of the family, but he is still family.
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I'd get a hitch lock ASAP, and make it clearly known ASK FIRST for anything. jmo
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