Just some of the stupid things I see

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  1. Roadmedic

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    Interesting thought.

    GVWR of a suburban is about 7500.

    Pulling a boat, pontoon boat in question on trailer, is bound to exceed 10,001.

    Just a curious question, which you can answer by pm if you want.

    Just how many of these have you seen?

    The boat is usually covered in plastic, white so it cannot be missed.

    I personally believe you would find a gold mine here.

    No signs.
    No authorization.
    No medical card.
    No Log book.
    No commercial carrier insurance.

    How many have you encountered?



    I know that a Indiana DOT officer saw them.

    He said, I wonder where they are taking that one.

    It had no signs either.
     
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  3. Roadmedic

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    GVWR of a 250 is about 8800 lbs or 9800 if 4 wd I think.

    Does not take much of a trailer to put it over on the GVWR calculation.
     
  4. Roadmedic

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    You are under Intrastate laws for the most part and subject to the 12 hour rule in most cases.

    If they get hungry, they might eye you.

    Only problem is that if you exceed 100 mile rule.
     
  5. Roadmedic

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    Good.

    Watching for him, you will be most likely missing me.:biggrin_25522:
     
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    You'll get eye strain before you see me in your state. :biggrin_25522:
     
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    You're 1000 times more likely to run in his state than me. :biggrin_25522:
     
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    What an unholy nightmare it would be if I was forced to 12 hrs.
    Most of the time I don't work over 12, but you can be sure that if I was tied to that I'd have a whole bunch of days where I was over.
    During a snow event its possible to put in A LOT of hours. 12 hr limit is unacceptable.

    I'm certainly not going to invite trouble on myself any time soon.
    Its a wonder WY isn't hard on the small rigs, Lord knows they LOVE to bang hotshotters if possible.
     
  9. Roadmedic

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    Indiana makes the guys like you have DOT numbers and names on their trucks like yours.

    The guys at your area port are not bad to deal with in my opinion. I have never had a problem there and most of the time they are sociable.
     
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    Run thru the 85 scale south of Cheyenne and see what happens.
    The word on the street is the guys that work there are the problem children trying to get back into the good graces to get moved to an interstate position.
    They've got history for being unpleasant.
     
  11. Roadmedic

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    I got a level 1 at cheyenne once.

    I will take your word on the other scale.
     
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