LEOs: Best way to explain I'm not a motor carrier?

Well you do need IFTA if your power unit is 3 axle or more regardless of weight, or a combination vehicle over 26,000 lbs. It doesn't matter if you are commercial or not. Same for apportioned registration. The question I have for you is this. How many times do you move your personal belongings? Where do you from and to and how often? I know you say your doing this for personal reasons, but to me, that sounds very fishy at best.

 

I believe you may be in error here.

IFTA is for commercial activity or business operations, not for personal use.

 

Well, in my State. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck. It's a duck. I know the IFTA enforcers have run in this same scenario and each time the citation has been written and convicted in court.

 

Tell me, who runs up and down the road always moving their personal items in a tractor trailer. I could see if your relocating, but from the sounds of it, this "hobby" seems to be quite frequent.

 

IFTA would encompass some of the larger personal motor homes. These would not be subject to it.

As far as this scenario, I am in agreement with you as far as the driving of personal items. I doubt it is a hobby. I see many of these that makes one wonder.

 

I always get the boat haulers and the enclosed car haulers who claim it their "friends" boat or cars and they are doing a favor. They are not commercial. When it is all said and done, the same thing rings true. They are liars who are trying to manipulate the system. Undercut the rates of the legitimate haulers and basically do whatever the h^ll they want to. It brings me great joy to watch these clowns on the side of the highway stumbling and fumbling all over theirselves trying to lie their way out. It's almost a game to me to see how much fun I can have with them. Takes me back to my criminal investigator days dealing with the scum of the earth. I've had quite a few of these recently and in the end the truth comes out, the "favor" is proven to be commerical. At least with cars and boats the VIN numbers or hull numbers provide who the owner is and a little investigation is all that is needed to prove it. Hauling "personal items" probably be hard to prove unless you trailed the vehicle and use the power of observation on where the stuff is "relocated'. I know that is time consuming and could present jurisdictional problems, however if he is "relocating" in my State, I'll follow him all day to see what he is up to. With fuel cost and operational cost, no one in their right mind just rides up and down the road as a "hobby" with personal items to relocate. Or no one has so much personal items they tote it around and move it from one place to another. And I don't know any law enforcement officer who will ever believe that story. May be time consuming to follow and document but their is some that would be willing.

 

I agree a motor home is not applicable. But a road tractor with a box van trailer with personal effects? Doesn't look like a RV to me.

 

I was in Checotah, OK at the Flying J. A motorhome came in with an enclosed car trailer. We asked what was in it and he said he was hauling cars to deliver. The trailer and the motorhome was clearly marked "Private, Not for Hire."

He said he was running very hard and could not keep up with the freight.

No log book, medical card, signs or authority. Just a happy camper.

I am always glad when they are caught.

I see camper haulers that have no signs running around pulling trailers. I know they are just happy campers as well.

 

Very true Medic. Had one the other night blow the scale. F-450 with external fuel tank in the bed. Had bikes in the bed as well to make it appear as a happy camping family. I stopped in and what would you know, moving from delaer to dealer, new camper with dealer tags on the trailer. Guy finially admitted that he had the bikes on the truck to appear "a camper". No log, no medical, wrong class license, no IFTA, No apportioned registration, no operating authority. Plenty of these guys out there and trying to reinvent the wheel instead of doing it the right way. The guys I work with water at the mouth and have fun playing with these jokers on the side of the road.

Viking, I know what your saying. I have read your posts before and quite honestly it sounds like a bunch of B.S. to me. I can only imagine you will be stopped and examined very closely with this vehicle. Their is so many cats out here doing things very similar and putting "Not for Hire" on their truck and thinking they are good to go. Maybe you are, maybe your not. But until I actually have the scenario in front of me. The truck, the trailer the load and the driver with "his story" , it's hard to make a determination of what you have posted. As far as telling or advising you what regulation code would apply to you, it's nearly impossible without having the scenario unfold in front of me. I have tried that in the past when people call the scale and ask a question of "I have this and this. What do I need?" The only problem is they tell you half of what they are doing and get the wrong information because we are going off of what they said. Then they get stopped and popped and want to complain because "I talked to so and so and he said I only need this and that." So not to muddy the water anymore that it already is, over the phone, over the computer it's hard to give precise information if you don't know what you are looking at.