From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Sat Jun 04 2005 - 18:49:38 PDT
Jon,
Thats the very same situation I was in so I stretched mine ten foot, put a
big aluminum box on the back and registered it as an RV, now no weigh
stations, no commercial insurance and usually no problem from DOT (They
sometimes chase me down and put me through the drill hoping with everything
in them to get me to say I sold this or that little gismo)
You're spending a heck of a lot of money that you could get around if you
wanted to. I'm just a low paid Army Warrant Retired so I can't afford seven
thousand a year.
Sonny
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Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] My recent run in with the Commercial Vehicle Police -
Indiana
> My truck is posted in big letters on each side:
>
> Not For Hire
> Not in Interstate Commerce
> For Military Vehicle Collection Hobby Only
> Name
> City state, zip
> Phone
>
> No DOT stuff because I am not in interstate commerce and there is no money
> being made for any reason. Not hauling for hire, not hauling my own
> products as there are no products.
>
> Still have IFTA tag, heavy truck IRS Tax and Insurance, and A-CDL,
> Apportioned Plates. I have 80K plates on this rig, 97 Freightliner and 53
> foot Trailmobile drive on trailer.
>
> Expensive but pretty simple.
>
> Jon
>
>
>
>
>> Ryan Gill wrote:
>>> At 1:42 PM -0500 6/3/05, MV wrote:
>>>
>>>>That is true. I have seen "not for hire" on trucks and also "private
>>>> carrier - not for hire". However at this point I don't see what either
>>>> one would do for you. If you are a Private carrier or not for hire,
>>>> but
>>>> still commercial, you are still subject to the USDOT BS. Once you hit
>>>> the magic 10,000 GVWR and you are commercial you are suppose to have
>>>> USDOT numbers, DOT inspections, carry a medical card.
>>>
>>>
>>> It probably works with some DOT cops, but not others. They probably
>>> start asking you questions and based on those questions, they try to
>>> decide if they can give you grief. Your game of 20 questions with the
>>> Female DOT cop kind of supports this too.
>>>
>>> I suspect that if you have "not for hire" get pulled over and get asked
>>> about your business (A parts company) and you've got a bunch of car
>>> parts in the back of the truck, you're going to have trouble wiggling
>>> out. If however you work at say a computer company and you have a race
>>> car in back (or horses) or something, then you're going to be off the
>>> hook pretty quick.
>>
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