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Any State, Any Country of Conversion, Any Twelvemonth, Make or Model of Motorbus

DMV LINKS UPDATED 2/16/2021

We're going to talk about how to register your bus without conversion today. Let's start things off by doing a niggling visualization….

You've bought the autobus, you've started ripping out seats and things are going well. Then you commencement to think about all of the places you'll go and the things you'll run into. Then, nigh that time, the realization will set in and the questions begin to class.

I'g doing all this piece of work, merely it's still not registered as an RV. Does my state do an inspection? Does the burn down marshall have to sign off? What constitutes a "conversion"?

That'due south what this post is all about! We'll go through the process of registering your motorcoach without conversion or inspection. Links to each form is listed in the steps and there are detailed images of the areas of the forms which you need to fill out. If yous have questions, feel free to caput over to our FB page or our contact page and bulletin me and I will exist glad to aid you out where I tin.

REGISTER YOUR BUS WITHOUT CONVERSION IN Whatever Land

Step-By-Stride Instructions - With Pictures

Lot's of folks live in states that make information technology exceedingly difficult to get a bus, skoolie or coach, designated as an RV or motorhome. States take requirements ranging from a simple inspection to having to be inspected by multiple agencies with numerous requirements. Requirements similar permanent waste plumbing (which for the states was an issue since we're using a composting toilet), installed cooking facilities (camping stoves don't count), and a myriad of other requirements.

This is where the Light-green Mountain Country of Vermont rides in on its white horse and saves the day. Yous can register your bus without conversion in the state of Vermont fifty-fifty if you are not a resident. They don't require an inspection, proof of insurance or proof of conversion. Though you should check with your local DMV if you need any special endorsement if your bus happens to have air brakes.

If you annals your double-decker without conversion in the state of Vermont you will not receive a title if your conveyance of choice is more than 15 years old. Instead, you will be given a transferable registration. I know this seems a little scary but you tin use this registration to transfer the championship of your motorcoach to whatever state you cull. If you take a vehicle that is less than xv years old, you'll go a regular Vermont title.

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STEP 1: Assemble Your Documents

VEHICLES 15+ YEARS Onetime : Yous'll need to include COPIES your TITLE and/or your BILL OF SALE (if you lot take one.)

VEHICLES 15+ YEARS Quondam and NO TITLE: If yous do not take original buying paperwork you will need to provide a copy of your signed and notarized bill of sale and a completed Bill of Sale and Odometer Disclosure Grade (VT-005). Y'all tin find a link to this form hither.

VEHICLES -15 YEARS OLD : If you have a more contempo model of vehicle, you lot'll need to send your ORIGINAL Title, signed and notarized. You'll besides demand to transport in class VT-010 – Verification of VIN or HIN (you tin download that hither)

STEP 2: Complete Required Vermont DMV Forms

VD119 - Registration Tax & Championship Application

Start past downloading Vermont's Registration Tax & Title Application here. This is form VD119 just in case they alter the link. One time you lot take it fill in the information below equally shown in each section equally information technology corresponds to the sections on the form.

NOTE: I've highlighted the sections of each course that we filled in on the paperwork we sent in, which we know worked.

Top of Form

At the top of the form, yous will run across something like to the image at right. A bunch of scarlet text outlined in red boxes. This section is for Vermont DMV utilize but. DO Not write in this area. Simply motion on past to Section 1.

Sections 1 & 2

Section 1

This is your standard personal data. Fill out anything that applies to your situation. You tin can leave the Vermont License # field blank unless yous happen to take one. Also, if you have a partner (either in crime or in life) you can add together them to the registration by filling in the Co-Owner section.

Department 2

If you filled out the Co-Owner section above you'll need to select the relationship to the main title holder here

Section 3

3A: In the unlikely upshot that you are making payments on your motorbus, or if you accept a lien on it for any reason, fill out this department completely.

3B: Here you volition list the previous owner's information. Once more, make full this out to the best of your ability.

Section 4 - IMPORTANT

This department is where your registration actually changes from a commercial vehicle to an RV.

Kickoff, marking "New Registration." The only other section you lot demand to worry about is the "Registration/Plate Type" Department. Hither in the blank space, yous'll need to write in "Motorhome" and use "(nineteen)" as the plate type designation number. Ironically this is the same designation as "School Double-decker" in their systems.

Section 5

This is your vehicle'southward information. Fill it out completely in the elevation section. Practice Non fill up out anything in the "Trucks" subsection. Fifty-fifty if you lot fit some of the descriptions in this section, you are not a commercial truck, you are a motorhome.

Section vi

Enter your purchase price. This is how VT volition make up one's mind what to charge y'all in taxes. They will base this taxation rate off of your purchase price unless your jitney can be pulled up in the NADA database, which nearly all buses will not.

Multiply your purchase price by their taxation rate of six% to get your "Net Taxable" and enter it besides.

Example:
$3,500 (purchase price) x .06 (VT 6% revenue enhancement charge per unit) = $210.00 Net Taxable

Section seven

You just demand to fill up out this section if you are taxation exempt. If so, enter yous exemption number in the appropriate field.

If you are not tax exempt, please get out this department completely blank.

Department 9

Here yous'll find out how much y'all need to write on the check to the Land of Vermont. The majority of folks volition have a very like fee schedule.

Registration Fee – Currently $76 for i year or $140 for two. If y'all're vehicle runs on something other than gas or diesel fuel, check the fee schedule.
half-dozen% Vermont Revenue enhancement – Enter the number you calculated under section half dozen titled "Net Taxable." You can too provide proof taxation has been paid.
Championship Fee – If your vehicle is newer than 15 years old, you volition need to add $35 (currently, you can ostend here) for the new VT title.
Warranty Fee – Currently this is $6
UPDATE: VT sent me a refund bank check for the warranty fee, then this may no longer be required.

Now Sign & Date the lesser of the form and information technology's gear up to become.

VT-005 - Bill of Sale and Odometer Disclosure Statement

You can go class VT-005 – Nib of Sale and Odometer Disclosure here. This form volition verify the facts of the transfer and the vehicle that Vermont needs to complete the registration.

Annotation: I've highlighted the sections of each form that we filled in on the paperwork we sent in, which we know worked.

PG 1 - Neb of Sale - Top

At the elevation of the form, y'all will need to enter your info, the seller'south info, info about your bus, and some transaction info.

PG i - Bill of Sale - Eye

You should non make full out ANYTHING, including the signature in this section unless you meet one of the criteria.

PG 1 - Bill of Sale - Bottom

You volition need to fill in all the appropriate information and make sure y'all accept signatures for all buyers and sellers involved in the transaction.

PG 2 - Odometer Disclosure - Section 1

After some circumlocution, you will enter your vehicle data.

PG 2 - Odometer Disclosure - Section 2

Y'all'll enter your mileage and check the box that best applies to your situation.

PG 2 - Odometer Disclosure - Section three

Enter the seller'south information and obtain a signature and date.

PG 2 - Odometer Disclosure - Department 4

This is your information. Fill it in and then sign and date the form.

Stride three: Cover Alphabetic character

Write a cover letter that describes everything you are enclosing in the package. Be sure to include an itemized list of fees, the amount of the check, and each of the documents y'all are enclosing,

As well, be sure to include a phone number that Vermont DMV staff can reach you at in case of whatever problems. I threw in my email as well only to be safety.

Pace iv: Mail It All

Once y'all complete all your forms, write your cover letter, make copies and get whatever originals; stuff all that newspaper into a business concern-sized envelope. Put some stamps on it (exist certain you have plenty postage as it's a footling heavier than your standard letter) and transport it off to:

Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles
120 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05603-0001

Step v: Wait

The state of Vermont processes tons of registrations every month and even though you can't wait to get on the route… they tin can.

Afterward four-8 weeks (ours took half-dozen) you should receive your new plates in the mail and a day or and so later you'll get your transferable registration (or championship). When y'all get your registration, check to be sure that they designated your craft as a motorhome. If they did non, and in that location is a chance that they'll miss it, simply call the Vermont DMV in a smaller city and talk to someone in that location. They are very helpful folks and will get information technology straightened out.

This is how you can annals your bus without conversion, in any country!

We hope this helps anyone who is considering this method to register your bus without conversion. Please understand, these instructions are written from my experience when we registered the Wanderlust Jitney. Your requirements may be different and your results may vary.

There are also lots of folks who are both joining the #buslife and who are using this method to get their plates. This could hateful that things at the Vermont DMV could change at a moments find and they could even stop doing this all together.

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