Texas RV Insurance: What You Need to Know

Texas · A motorhome is a motor vehicle. A trailer is not.

A motorhome on a Texas road needs its own liability, at least 30/60/25. A travel trailer is not a motorhome. Many auto policies extend liability to a non-motorized trailer only while it is hitched, and they do not pay to repair it.

Class A, B, and C motorhomes are motor vehicles. The Texas floor is $30,000 bodily injury per person, $60,000 per accident, and $25,000 property damage, on a policy that actually lists the coach. Personal auto on the sedan does not imply the motorhome. Collision pays a crash. Comprehensive pays theft, hail, flood to the vehicle, vandalism, and many animal strikes. Deductibles are separate. A total loss is usually actual cash value unless a stated-amount endorsement says otherwise. A travel trailer or fifth-wheel has no engine. While it is hitched to a listed tow vehicle, that auto policy often extends liability only. When it is unhitched, that extension often stops. Repair of the trailer is a trailer policy, not the car’s collision. Forms differ.

Full-timers who have no homeowners policy need their contents on the RV form. An HO-3 does not follow you into a coach you live in year-round unless the form says so. Loss of use on an RV policy is not a homeowners additional-living-expense grant. Storing it does not create a statewide discount. If a carrier offers one, it is that carrier’s rule. A personal umbrella pays only after the underlying limits, and only if the RV is scheduled underneath. It does not insure the coach. This page will not invent an RV premium.

Living in it: full-time RV insurance. Why storage does not cancel the policy: year-round. The trailer by itself: travel trailers. The two physical-damage coverages: comprehensive versus collision. A house on a chassis is a different form: manufactured homes. The liability that sits above, only if the RV is underneath: umbrella.

List the coach or the trailer on its own quote before the trip. Ask an agent or get a quote.