Re: Clarification 2

From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Wed Dec 28 2005 - 22:53:16 PST


I don't have DOT numbers on my rig as I do not engage in interstate commerce
with my truck.

Got that from the State of Missouri-DOT office.

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "MV" <MV@dc9.tzo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Clarification 2

> Sonny,
>
> If I were you I would just make sure your paperwork is in order,
> registration, insurance etc. and drive without worries.
>
> Be courteous if someone pulls you over and ask what is wrong, act
> concerned etc. I don't think they can pin anything on you if you are
> setup as an RV and not commercial. Just insist that you are a
> non-commercial vehicle and not much applies.
>
> If these other mega rigs being built in Northern Indiana do not need DOT
> numbers and inspections then why should your rig?
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> Sonny Heath wrote:
>> Well, I suspected that when I entered Iowa going north on interstate 35
>> the scale house saw me and put him on my tail. He stopped me about ten
>> or fifteen miles in to the state.
>>
>> That would have been fine but why wouldn't he say to me "I stopped you
>> because it was thought that you had evaded our scales but I see now that
>> you are an RV". Who knows?
>>
>> Thats the only time I've ever been stopped since I built it other than
>> the time the jerk stopped me in Indianna for no reason other than my
>> suspicion that he didn't like big trucks so I went to court and he didn't
>> show up so the judge dropped the case. That was funny. Anyone want to
>> know the details I'll post them but I don't like hunting and pecking
>> enough to write individual emails which could last all day.
>>
>> Hope everyone got something MV for Christmas. I'll probably get socks
>> and hankerchiefs as usual, but just in case of that event I bought from
>> our good friends at GL an "A" frame with 3 ton hoist and a grease rack
>> which I picked up a coupla days ago. Anyone with spare time on their
>> hands can come over and help me unload them from the trailer and set them
>> up. lol
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sonny
>>
>>
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>> To: <sonny@defuniak.com>; <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 11:51 AM
>> Subject: Re: [MV] Clarification 2
>>
>>
>>> Sonny i for one agree so much it makes me sick to hear these stories,
>>> He had
>>> NO right to pull you over he was just curious, Randy out
>>>
>>>
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