Everest

The license plate on our 5th wheel is due for renewal this month. 

We have not yet received the normal renewal paperwork in the mail this year.  Instead, we got a letter from the State of Texas reminding us that the trailer had to have a current safety inspection before a license could be issued.

I took the trailer to the inspection station yesterday, and it was about as painless as possible.  It only cost seven dollars, and only took about ten minutes, and most of that was spent typing information into a computer.  The safety inspection itself – lights and brakes – actually involved less than we normally check every time we hook up.

I asked the inspector if she thought we would receive the renewal form from the state now that the trailer was inspected.  She said chances were only about 50/50.  Since Texas is in the middle of a conversion year – going from two stickers to a single sticker for automobiles, trucks and trailers – people were only getting the renewals in the mail about half of the time. She assured me that if we didn’t get one we could still get the plates renewed since they could pull up the trailer records using the inspection paperwork she gave me.

Boy, I hope she is right!