Parking the truck at home??

Accessing the interstate system from where?

Read the law, not just the title.

 

Move to Chicagoland and tell them that. You will get fined or towed if you take a bobtail in a neighborhood with covenants. I'm sure all the other richy cities are the same way. Going home is not reasonable to the public eye.

Sure you can in the country. I can run our tar and chip roads all day and nobody will say anything. I'm just talking about neighborhoods.

 

625 ILCS 5/4-203

In other words, they can't just tow the vehicle out of your driveway. I sure as heck wouldn't authorize the tow from my driveway, and if the HOA authorized the tow, if you park another vehicle in a manner which would prevent them from getting their truck in a position to hook to your truck, they cannot move that other vehicle to gain access to the truck they are after. The tow company would also still be liable for any damage they cause to the truck OR to your property while attempting to tow the truck, so they won't winch it sideways through the front yard in order to get their truck to it...would cause more damage to the yard than they will be allowed to charge for the tow. The law has changed a little since I used to drive wreckers and do these relocates....used to be if the owner came out with the keys before we got off the property and could move the vehicle themselves, we had to unhook and give them the car back at no charge...so you could literally sit inside with keys in hand while they hooked up until you saw them walking to their truck to leave, then run out and stop them and they'd have to unhook and leave. Now, it looks like the tow company gets to charge half the tow rate.

As for ticketing the truck, all they can do is put a hold on the registration...so that the plates can't be renewed until the ticket is paid. Simple solution? Pull the tags when you get home, and put 'em back on before you leave. No tags = can't run 'em to get the VIN, which the only other way to get the VIN would be to open the drivers door. Without the VIN, they can't tie the ticket to the registration, so they can't prevent the plates from being renewed. The only other option they have would be to cite the property owner, which if the property owner refuses to pay the fine the worst they can do is put a lien on the property, to be collected if/when the property is sold. If I know there is a lien on my property, I'm not selling it for less than what I need to pocket in the deal, plus any commissions needing to be paid to realtors, plus the amount of any lien on the property. If the amount of the lien pushes my asking price above that which other people are willing to pay, I won't sell and the neighborhood is stuck with me. Write me some more citations and increase the lien that much more, and it'll only be longer 'til you will get rid of me.

I don't care WHERE I live, my truck will be parked at my house and on my property. The neighbors aren't paying my mortgage or my property taxes, therefore they have no say in what or where I park on my property. If they don't like seeing it, they can look the other way.

 

It al depends where you live, when I bought my house in Burbank the city was OK with it as long as I did not park it on the street,about 2 years later the good citizens of Burbank passed a ordinance not allowing vehicles over 10,000 lbs (I think) on or in residential areas exept local deliveries. You can keep paying the fines if you like, or if not they add it to the property tax bill, and if you don't pay that they simply sell your house for you at auction.

I rented the house out in 1993, and bought another house moved.

 

If the road supports it? If the road doesnt support a home that supports the road than screw it..

I'm just about done truckin anyway...

 

I'd have told 'em to GFY.

Hell, when I was in college, the neighborhood my parents live in was tossing around the idea of passing an ordinance that would have restricted the number of cars parked in the driveway to the number of licensed drivers in the household. When the neighbors caught wind of what my dad was planning had it passed, they quickly dropped the idea. At the time, there were 6 licensed drivers maintaining legal residence at my parent's house...but only 3 cars in the driveway (mom parked in the garage, and my 2 little brothers had licenses but no cars). Dad was going to buy 3 beater cars that looked like they came straight from the junk yard (as long as they ran & moved under their own power), insure them with minimum liability, and put plates on 'em so they'd be legal....then park 'em in the driveway and never move 'em.

My dad's pretty mild compared to me.

If I live in a place, and they pass an ordinance which "outlaws" something I've been doing "legally" for a while, I couldn't care less what the ordinance is...I'm not going to follow it. The property will be worthless before it goes on the auction block....I'll make sure of that. By the time the legal process is complete and the government can put it up for sale, it won't bring a fraction of the money needed to cover the unpaid fines...and it would need far too much work for anyone else to want to buy, as the inside of the house would be thoroughly gutted of anything of any value...walls, wiring, etc.... The water would have been shut off and the meter removed, and the interior plumbing removed and sold for scrap. If I'm really in the mood to cause trouble (which I usually am), the night before I'm physically removed from the house, every bucket of anything I have in the garage will be opened up and poured out in the yard to kill the lawn and make sure nothing grows back for a while. Heck, I'm outta there anyway, so why would I care? Call it my "parting gift" to the neighbors.

You can't sell a piece of property that nobody wants to buy.

If you don't like looking at the truck parked in my driveway, turn your head and look the other way when you drive by. I really don't want you looking my way anyway. And if you think I'm a bad neighbor, ya best keep your mouth shut about it, because if you think I'm bad when I'm just minding my own business, you REALLY don't want to piss me off. If you don't want to be my neighbor, move your own ###### self...I'm not going anywhere without a fight. Try kicking me out and it'll get a LOT worse long before it gets better.

I'm not paying your fines...ESPECIALLY if the ordinance was passed to try to stop me from doing something that was perfectly legal when I bought the property. It is my property, and until you are paying the mortgage and taxes on that property, you don't get any say in what I do on it or with it.

 

Around where I live, there are 8 truck drivers, and one guy bought two blocks of land to park his truck and trailer on; now, Australia law are a bit different on what is on the land, so long as it looks nice, it passes (so no rubbish dumping)

Over time we must of all asked if we could park our trucks, as it was a pain to park 2 km down the road, at 4am, and have a freezing cold walk home; so now every weekend we go wash our trucks, and do a quick service, with a beer and pies (I know, ironic), so it was a great way to meet other drivers.

 

Is there a truckstop near you? I park at a local truckstop, about 5 minutes from my house, and my wife picks me up...no problem at all...they even allow a trailer to be dropped there too. I buy some oil there, and some gas, and we are both happy.

 

Okay I skipped over about 5 pages of reading so I could post here, My town I live in now is a little town my daughter delivers a free weekly paper they send 50 and she has some left over. As close as I can count we have 125 people in the town 15 vacant houses and 3 for sale. I own two houses and have both on and off street parking, the problem is that the city is trying to put in an ordinance about no semis or no trailersoneof the 2 or a weight limit on roads etc. I have been in close contact with the mayor on this issue as have the other 6 drivers in this little town. (yes 7 total out of 125 people) the problem came about when one of the o/o that pulls for a scrapyard came in one day 110000 lbs. and blew a tire then another drove through town on rims we have a large gouge in the road from this, This driver is ruining it for the rest of us, he seems to think he owns the road and the town has recently broken a drain tile under the road in front of his house from the wieght just sitting there as well as has taken over a foot of grass out of my corner yard lot. I am not real worried about the grass less i have to care for however he has cost the city 3800 to fix the tile at the end of my corner lot wheere he is tearing up the grass. again idc about the grass. One of the o/o just built a 85000 $$$$ shop and is now rethinking this because the way it sounds he wont even be able to take his rig to it. I guess what are your opinions is there a way we could maybe convince the city that its okay for us to take tractors home but drop trailer we do have a place outside of town that will let us, or are we in a loosing battle?

 

The city should bill him for the repairs.