hey everybody,

i'm in a very tight schedule and i need some info about insurance for the frog during the TTC - would'nt want any trouble with the police.

i have my insurance, but it's valid only in Israel.

therefoe, need an insurance policy for about two weeks. i can give righy away all the relevant detailes - make, model, registration number, etc. payment can also be made immediately through c. card.

can anybody help here? maybe one of the PBB members is an insurance person and can take care of this issue?

need an URGENT answer - time in running out... :(

thanks

Barry

If not driven on the street here, you dont need any. Isnt TTC done at a park ?

Originally posted by smurfsdad
If not driven on the street here, you dont need any. Isnt TTC done at a park ?

are you sure?!

i can drive on an unpaved road and even take part in an offroad competition without any coverage?

BTW - one small part of the TTC involves a short ride on a paved road - the "ride & drive" test.

what happens if someone gets hurt by the vehicle in tha TTC?

do the organizers make some sort of insurance?

if your right, i'll be moving immediately to California....:flipoff2: :flipoff2: :flipoff2:

I dont know what TTC rules are but you do not need insurance to drive off road here. And yes the organizers will have liabilty insurance for the event. Do they require your vehicle to be street legal for TTC ?

Originally posted by smurfsdad
. Do they require your vehicle to be street legal for TTC ?

yes, they do, because of that street ride they're planning through Hollister.

i guess i have no choice but to have it covered for the two weeks period.

Barry

Ask your insurance carrier there about coverage. People have cars shipped to the states and drive them here so i would assume they can get coverage. When travelling in Canada we are covered but in Mexico you need to buy insurance at the border. I will see what i can find out about this for you.

Originally posted by smurfsdad
Ask your insurance carrier there about coverage

i did. he told me i must buy a local insurance. not possible to buy it from Israel.


I will see what i can find out about this for you.

thanks:) :)

Barry

Just to clear things up. TTC does insist that all contestants have vehicle insurance. It says it in the rules right along side needing to have a working winch.

Is it street legal in Isreal?

If it is street legal in isreal and has isreali plates/registration then you can bring it over and drive on them. Otherwise do you have a plan for getting that thing legal anywhere in the US.

I dunno, maybe a temp registration, dealer plates?

check with the R.A.C. or the isreali equivilent. I know they sell coverage for U.K. people traveling abroad so maybe that would help. Also you can get some sort of carnet from them if customs gives you crap though I don't think it would be necessary coming into the US.

Ron

Try this link:

http://www.insure.com/auto/foreignlicense.html

The rules state that the vehicle has to be "street legal, registered, and insured". The organizers don't check (they didn't last year) but everything had plates on it when it showed up.

Barry, your insurance company should be able to provide basic liability insurance for traveling; that's all that is required. Most carriers in the states, kinda frown on writing really short-term policies like that, but they'll do it, for a premium price.

There is a grand total of about 30 miles of street driving involved in TTC, guesstimating from last year. California does require liability insurance, and because Hollister is legally public land, they do also require that street legal vehicles that go there to play, have insurance. The magazine folks don't check, they just ask for license plate number on the forms.

I believe in order to be 100% legal, you'll also need an international driver's license to drive here... some countries inherently recognize each others' licenses (US/Canada come to mind) but AFAIK, most of Europe does not recognize US licenses--I don't know Israeli/US relations well enough to say one way or the other. Might be best to get one just to make sure you're covered.

hye Scott,

i have everyting settled except for the insurance thing.

i have an international driving license + a street registration for the frog valid until April 2003 + license plates, but i thought that Four Wheeler required a local insurance policy.

i tried it with some American insurance companies, but all i got till now was a BIG "sorry we do'nt do it" kind of answers.

if i do'nt find one that will do it in the states, i'll try to go for one of these international travel policies, but i doubt if an Israeli agency would agree to do it.

the problem, as you very well know, is that the vehicles that we build are heavilly modified(although legally) and insurance people here try to avoid it anyway they can.

if you know of an insurance agency in California that would do it, just let me know.

thanks

Barry

If I remember right in from driving school cant you have a bond of somesort that you can use instead of having insurance. It is something lik ehaving to $500,000 set aside in a bank account or something like that but I thought I remember something Like that. Why not just get in contact with 4wheeleer magazine and see what they say about your home country insurance?

Matt

Originally posted by RockRanger
If I remember right in from driving school cant you have a bond of somesort that you can use instead of having insurance. It is something lik ehaving to $500,000 set aside in a bank account or something like that but I thought I remember something Like that. Why not just get in contact with 4wheeleer magazine and see what they say about your home country insurance?

Matt SR22?

Considering how little of these rigs is from the factory in the first place, why not just hook up with someone here who has a registered (not in CA, their rules are just too nuts) title and plate that they will lend?

Slap that plate on, maybe crayola the VIN onto your frame, then drive!

Randii

Originally posted by randii
Considering how little of these rigs is from the factory in the first place, why not just hook up with someone here who has a registered (not in CA, their rules are just too nuts) title and plate that they will lend?

Slap that plate on, maybe crayola the VIN onto your frame, then drive!

Randii


Good point. Barry, what is your rig registered as?