Marine/Car Insurance and Problems

The people we have used to insure the car for both Marine and road use are Hagerty in New York. The contact there is a Mr Rick Worm and they require quite a lot of paperwork. UK insurers are not interested in insuring cars in the USA and US insurers will only cover non US residents as a member of a club or tour. Our tour is named the East West Centenary Tour. They again require a photo of the car, a copy of V5 and an itinerary of the meetings, clubs etc that you will be attending on your tour. They also require full details of your driving experience in the USA. You may also require an EPA Certificate (Environmental Protection Agency) and approval has to be obtained before shipping otherwise your vehicle will not be able to discharge the vessel and will be regarded overstay. Collection can only be undertaken by the owner. We chose to use a container rather than a RO-RO, which is cheaper but involves dockers loading and unloading and the chances are the vehicle will be left in a compound after unloading and driven by dockers. One thing I forgot to mention whilst loading the cars is that there should be the minimum of fuel in the tank and definitely below a quarter tank. Also forgot to tell you whether you can leave anything in the vehicle whilst in transit ie torneaus, luggage etc. Trevor and I both had fitted luggage made for our cars which was left in them. Anything else requires an itinerary. I chose to leave the vehicle empty but Trevor did send some stuff with an itinerary. We will wait and see if there are any import customs problems.