Human Resources Management Division

VI. Transportation of a House Trailer

If authorized by your administrative officer, you may be allowed a mileage rate for transportation of a house trailer or overland transportation cost for a boat when you use it as your home. A per mile rate is allowed if your house trailer is towed by a privately owned vehicle. This expense includes all transportation costs including ferry fares; bridge, road, and tunnel tolls; and all other charges. This mileage payment will be in addition to any mileage allowable for the transportation en route of yourself and your family in a personal vehicle.

If your house trailer is towed by a commercial transporter, you are allowed the carriers' actual charges for transportation of your trailer. The amount NRCS can pay you cannot exceed approved tariffs for movement of a trailer of its size and type for the distance involved. In addition you will also be allowed ferry fares; bridge, road and tunnel tolls; taxes, and fees charged by a state or municipal authority for permits to transport house trailers in or through its jurisdiction. You may be paid the following cost of preparing your mobile home for movement and resettling it at the destination:

• Blocking and unblocking.
• Labor costs, removing, and installing skirting.
• Cost of separating, preparing, and sealing each section for movement.
• Cost of reassembling the two halves of a double-wide mobile home.
• Travel lift fees.

You cannot be paid the costs for maintenance, repairs, storage, insurance for valuation of trailers above the carrier’s maximum responsibility, or any charges designated in tariffs as "Special Services" when it is part of the transportation expense.

If your house trailer or boat is transported partly by a commercial carrier and partly by some other means, the expenses described above apply to the respective parts of the transportation. The total combined cost to NRCS cannot exceed the cost for transportation and 90 days temporary storage of 18,000 lbs. of household goods and personal effects moved for the same distance.

When you use a boat as your primary residence, an allowance for transportation over-water shall include, but not be limited to:

• Cost of anchoring and unanchoring.
• Cost of fuel and oil used for propulsion of the boat.
• Cost of pilots or navigators in open water.
• Cost of a crew.
• Charges for harbor pilots.
• Cost of docking fees incurred in transit.
• Harbor or port fees and similar charges related to entry in and navigation through ports.
• Cost of towing, whether in tow or towing by pushing from behind.

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