Interstate commerce laws do apply, and as long as your trailer meets all applicable federal laws and the laws of the state that issued the title and registration, you should be free to drive it through any other state.
Now that won't stop some local law enforcement officer who is ignorant of these facts, or who chooses to ignore them in favor of increasing local revenues, from trying to issue you a citation in another state, but you should be able to fight it successfully. Local law enforcement do this a lot, as they think that since you're from out of state that you'll simply pay the fine rather than travel back to their state for a court date a month or more later, and the majority of people do just bite the bullet and pay the fine.
Here in Pennsylvania they do not issue front license plates for cars and small trucks, and it is legal for me to drive my car or truck into any other state in the country, yet while in another state, a local law enforcement officer tried to issue me a citation for not having a front license plate. I demanded that a superior officer be called and the young man was put in his place by his superior and I was allowed to go on my way.
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Today's Featured Article - Oil Bath Air Filters - by Chris Pratt. Some of us grew up thinking that an air filter was a paper thing that allowed air to pass while trapping dirt particles of a particles of a certain size. What a surprise to open up your first old tractor's air filter case and find a can that appears to be filled with the scrap metal swept from around a machine shop metal lathe. To top that off, you have a cup with oil in it ("why would you want to lubricate your carburetor?"). On closer examination (and some reading in a AC D-14 service manual), I found out that this is a pretty ingenious method of cleaning the air in the tractor's intake tract.
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