From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Tue Dec 27 2005 - 11:04:27 PST
Funny that you would mention that Joe, that very same thing happened to me
in Indianna about two years ago. He was extremely arrogant with me. This
was a State Trooper, not a DOT type. He had a car stopped on the side of
the interstate so I looked in my left mirror and it was bumper to bumper so
I slowed down as much as I had time to within reason and eased on by him and
then he chased me down and when I told him the truth he said "THAT LEFT LANE
WAS OPEN" I said nothing more and signed for the hundred and twenty dollar
ticket for not yielding to a stationary emergency vehicle and called the
court house for a meeting with the "Judge" and he didn't show up. Cost me a
lot of time but I HAD TO PROVE A POINT to my grandson who was with us.
While I'm on here I want to say Thanks to all the people who commented on my
truck. That makes it all worth while. I worked on it at my shop where I
have a small Tire business and Carport and Garage sales for eleven and a
half months. Its got everything in it that the most fancy ones have, well,
almost. lol I put knotty pine on the walls and ceiling. It has a two foot
by three foot shower, 4 burner stove with oven, double stainless steel
sinks, china toilet, thin TV, Sterio, sleeps six,etc.
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
> Mr. Smith,
From: "Joe Shannon" <fordpart@bellsouth.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Sonny's rig
>
> I have been reading you posts and you know your thing but that is where
> the problem lies, you are the only DOT officer who does. It has been my
> experience that if any other officer pulls over Mr. Sonny and then
> recognizes the fact that it is a recreational vehicle the officer will not
> admit that he made a mistake as I have been told by the main man here in
> Tennessee that his men do not make mistakes and they are not interested in
> what the federal law says.
> This is where the problem will arise for those of you like Sonny who
> just happen to be riding around for fun in something big, the officers
> will harass them just because of their appearance whether or whatever
> ticket they write sticks when it goes to court or not or not they will
> still pull them over. DOT officers count on the fact that the person
> receiving the ticket will not take the time to go to court and fight it.
> I see these folks every day, I have been inspected close to 40 times this
> year mostly by the same station sometimes twice a day, several times
> bobtail, several times with an empty trailer.
>
> Let me ask you a question that so far no one else has been able to
> answer---What is the purpose of the BOC-3 or Blanket Company that I am
> required to have? I was under the impression that it was to keep from
> being detained if I received a ticket in another state but that is not it.
>
> Let me apologize Mr. Smith for the attitude that comes across in this post
> I do not mean it toward you but toward the lawmakers and the brass who
> decide who is allowed to make a living and who is not most of the laws
> have nothing to do with safety.
>
> Joe Shannon
> MC# 467421
>
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