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State inspection is the easy part. Try a D. O. T. inspection which you will be subject to once in your life. Please read on! I am in agreement with some of the previous posts in that I HOPE YOUR INSURANCE IS PAID UP. I sell trailers for a living. Trust me I have tried if not once, a dozen times, to build a trailer for the same cost as you can by one for. The only way possible is to have everything given to you and your labor and energy is worth $0.00. And you still haven't paid your liability policy. Not being hard or critical because there are good backyard welders out there, but the manufacturers have engineers, professional welders, and INSURANCE. And most of all experience. For the trailer to pass inspection in VA, there is a book an inch thick on specifications for everything from lights to springs and coupling devices, tires and so forth. *For example - install 2 6000# axles on a trailer. Now you have 12000# GVWR right! Not neccessarily! If you do not install atleast 4 tires with a weight rating of 3000# each, your trailer must be rated to whatever your tires are. (4 2580# tires is 10320# GVWR) *Example No. 2 Federal law states any trailer over 80" outside extremes must have 3 center rear mounted marker lights in addition to taillights/turn signals.
*Example No. 3 Federal law says no amber(yellow) lights mounted at rear used for marker lights. Amber lights are only for Turn signals. Cannot be used as brake lights or marker lights. Don't forget your Conspicuity Striping; the red and white expensive striping - minimum 18" on, skip 18", 18" again, all the way down the side of the trailer and MANDATORY if the trailer is registered over 10001 GVWR - FEDERAL LAW. Again I am not being hard or critical just telling you what is FEDERAL LAW. And that is the law that is the law when the local D. O. T. man stops you in your state or another. E-mail me if you want a picture of a trailer or better yet check out www.pequeamachine.com. This is on of the manufacturers I sell (with one years warranty). Tony630
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