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Date:         Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:47:16 -0500
Reply-To:     Roger VanTill <motelvw@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Roger VanTill <motelvw@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: titling and registering camper in Washington
In-Reply-To:  <20150114160838.TS6YJ.172415.imail@eastrmwml214>
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In Michigan, my Westy is a Station Wagon.

On Wednesday, January 14, 2015, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

> I have run into something unexpected in moving my camper to Washington. > The clerk at the registration office asked me if my camper is a motor > home. I said "No," because it is not. She agreed, saying that her > computer registration program identified it, by its vin, as a passenger > car. But another lady, at a different booth, spoke up, saying that it is a > motor home. The two disagreed, so they called someone else, saying that > they can always rely on him for correct information. He said it was a > passenger car. > > OK, everything was cool. But the other woman intervened again, asking me > if the van had a bed. It does. She then asked if it had a sewage holding > tank. It does not. She asked then if it has cooking facilities or a > refrigerator. It has both. She declared it to be a motor home. The first > woman was non-plussed. I told her that I would title and license the > vehicle "later," and she said she thought that was a good idea, and that > she would check further for me, and let me know what she found out. > > It seems to me that if the registration program recognizes it as a > passenger vehicle, and the departmental expert, consulted because he is the > expert, agrees, then the second woman is just butting in, but what do I > know. > > So, fellow VW Campmobile owning Washingtonians, how are yor camper's > titled and registered, as passenger vehicles or motor homes? > > Thanks,David McNeely >

-- Peace out, sauerkraut. Roger '89 Westy "The Moose Lounge"


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