> Departments > Clerk & Recorder > Motor Vehicle > Manufactured Homes and Trailers > Trailers

Trailers

The State of Colorado titles and registers ALL trailers. Title applications for trailers have the same requirement as applications for other vehicles.

Beginning with the 1981 model year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, required manufacturers selling over the road vehicles in the United States to produce the vehicles with a 17 character fixed form VIN, with a check digit within the number, applies to passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles, trucks, buses, trailers, incomplete vehicles and motorcycles.

If the vehicle identification number is lost or removed

A DR2395 Verification of Vehicle Identification Number is required to verify there is no identification number. If no identification number is found the following is required:

  • If the manufacturer's name is still on the trailer
    • The county motor vehicle office issues an assigned identification number to the trailer. A DR2409 Statement of Assembly of Homemade Trailer and Assignments of Trailer ID Number must be included.
    • The year and the make remain the same.
  • If a manufacturer's name does not appear on the trailer
    • The county motor vehicle office issues an assigned identification number to the trailer.
    • The make will be shown as homemade on the new application.

Kit Trailers

A kit trailer that was purchased unassembled from a retail sales business that is not a licensed Colroado Motor Vehicle Dealer, and assembly was completed by the owner, it will be titled as a homemade trailer and issued an assigned identification number. Although the manufacturer may have included an identification number, an assigned identification number is required.

The applicant must surrender:

  • The MSO (Manufacturer's Statement of Origin), incoice or written bill of sale. A cash register receipt, will only be accepted, if it identifes the trailer.
  • DR2409 Statement of Assembly of Homemade Trailer and Assignment of Trailer ID Number.
    • The make will be homemade and the year will be the year of application.
  • DR2704 Certified VIN Inspection if trailer weighs 2000 pounds or more.

Trailer from non-title states

Small type trailers that come into Colorado from states that do not title trailers but require only registration of trailers must follow this procedure. First, it must be determined that the specific state does not title trailers but only requires registration of small trailers.

Documents required for titling:

  • Current registration.
  • If registration is transferred to a new owner, assignment on registration must be completed, or a notarized bill of sales if there is no assignment area. Application for title must be made prior to the expiration of the registration.
  • DR2395 Verification of Vehicle identification Number.

Trailers from states that do not title and do not register trailers

First, it must be determined that the specific state does not title trailers or register small trailers.

When a trailer is brought into Colorado from a state that does not title or register small trailers, the following documents for titling are required.

  • DR2374 Statement of Trailer Ownership
  • DR2395 Verification of Vehicle Identification Number