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| | | | Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 61 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 61 |
Not sure if anyone is familiar with California. I had a choice: register it and insure it as a Historic Vehicle, and drive whenever there's a parade. Or keep Year of Manufacture plates, and insure it at the rates of a 'big rig' working dump truck. Is there a way to insure it with the YoM plates, and insure it for about 5000 miles a year, make a few dump runs, landscape runs (sod, sand, etc) Are there any options? I've tried Hagerty, but since I have YoM commercial plates, they won't do it JC Taylor says "parade use"....
Any ideas???
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | do the historic vehicle and then on the way to the parade
do your dump and landscape runs... easy fix
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 61 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 61 | Do I have to follow a one man band, to have a one truck parade?
I really don't want to give up the year of manufacture plates....but if that's what it takes!
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 268 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 268 | Hi
I went to Progressive for my 1952 GMC 454-30 3 ton flatbed dump.
Cost was $397.00 for 6 months PL & PD.
California now requires a $750,000 liability on vehicles with a GVW of 10,000lbs or more for commercial plates.
Geico was similar price but, requires a commercial drivers license.
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1948 GMC FC253 1t Factory 80"x9' Flatbed Dually
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1950 GMC 354-24 2 Ton 8'X12' Flatbed w/Dump Hoist
1953 GMC 454-30 3 Ton 8'x14' Flatbed w/Dump Hoist
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,644 | I've got my stuff with State Farm ,give them a call.
Pete | | | | | Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 21 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 21 | No need for a one man band, just toot your own horn | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,236 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,236 | Look up Gulfway, they advertize in the ATHS magazine as insuring antique tractor trailers. Mike B  | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,107 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,107 | if your going to use it commercially then your going to have to bite the bullet and pay the price. if you choose to go the other way then you chance losing your historic plates if your caught hauling with it which im sure there is also a cost with that too.
you need to ask yourself this, do i want an antique dump truck that i can haul with or do i want a dump truck that i can take to antique truck shows/parades?
i have a 51 2 ton that i chose to make a dump truck that i take to truck shows. there is a big difference in what it costs me vs how much i use the truck but i still chose the more expensive option. | | |
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