Looked over the FMCSA website and no answer...Diesel Bear or any Leo's know?

You could check and see if they issue out of state permits. That way you could get one from Maryland and still legally carry in the state.

 

I use my weapon to disable any person or people with malice towards me. Disable can mean many things but that is the key point.

I intend to ensure that anyone attempting harm to me is left incapable of completing their plan. If you feel bug spray can incapacitate someone by all means carry that. I know a .45 will at the very least make them reconsider their plan.


All men owe a death. Some find it earlier than others when they go looking for it.

 

Better than being killed!

 

On the other hand, if someone is going to rob you at gunpoint, they will have the element of surprise. You ain't going to do anything with a gun pointed at you even if you had one. The act of going for your gun can get you killed.

The main thing any driver can do is be aware of their surroundings and avoidance.

Truck drivers do get targeted and robbed. But the odds are pretty low it will happen to you. For it to happen twice is like getting hit by lightning.

OP, where in Chattanooga were you when they tried to break in??

 

http://www.hardylaw.net/FOPA.html



2. Interstate Transportation of Firearms
In response to reports of hunters being arrested for firearms law violations while passing through a state with tight controls,488 FOPA's drafters inserted provisions to offer protection for such travel. S. 49 as introduced provided that any provision of state or local law "which prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting the transportation of a firearm or ammunition in interstate commerce through such state, when such firearm is unloaded and not readily accessible, [Page 677] shall be null and void."489 On the Senate floor, an amendment was accepted which changed this in two respects: (1) the protection was extended only to persons not prohibited by the Gun Control Act from transporting, shipping or receiving a firearm; and (2) the provision that an infringing law was to be null and void was dropped in favor of a simpler declaration that the transportation was allowed notwithstanding any such law.490 The rationale for the former change should be apparent. The rationale for the latter was a concern that, if the provisions that "have the effect" of inhibiting interstate transport were declared "null and void," entire sections of state law might be challenged and voided as to all purposes.491 In this form the provisions passed the Senate,492 and an identical provision was inserted in the bill that passed the House.493
Upon transmittal of the House bill to the Senate, the Senate passed both it and an amendatory bill, S. 2414, which greatly affected this section. S. 2414 narrowed the right of travel by providing that it was a right "to transport a firearm for any lawful purpose from any place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm to any other place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearms"; moreover, both firearm and ammunition must not only be not "readily accessible" but also not "directly accessible from the passenger compartment."494 The restriction to transport to and from areas where the arms might be lawfully possessed was apparently a counter to criticisms that the bill might otherwise bar arrest of the owner in his own state, under that state's laws, if he argued he was beginning a permitted transportation.495 The second change was intended to rule out carrying in a glove compartment,496 which the Senate [Page 678] reports had indicated would qualify as "not readily accessible" under FOPA.497 On the other hand, S. 2414 seemingly widened the allowable transportation by requiring, not that it be "interstate commerce," but that it simply be "from any place" of lawful possession "to any place" of the same.498 The House passed the Senate bill without amendment.499
Enactment of S. 2414 does leave some questions unanswered. Fortunately, its late origin has given us a legislative history adequate to address most issues.
Accessibility
The first question is obvious: what is "not readily accessible"? We can easily discard the horrible hypotheticals raised during the House debates on FOPA, that a briefcase behind the seat would meet this test,500 or that "inaccessible in most cases probably means concealed."501 In practical terms, the requirement of inaccessibility is essentially subsumed in S. 2414's requirement that the firearm be stored outside the passenger compartment. If storage in a locked glove compartment was sufficient to meet the accessibility test, as the legislative history clearly indicates,502 the [Page 679] required storage outside the passenger compartment should clearly suffice.
Purposes
A second question is likewise obvious. For what purposes may the transportation be undertaken? FOPA itself had no requirements relative to the underlying purpose.503 Opponents of FOPA criticized this lack,504 but did not carry the day; a House amendment that would essentially have required that the transportation be for defined sporting purposes was decisively defeated.505 S. 2414 does insert a purpose requirement, but one far broader than that proposed unsuccessfully in the House; the transportation may be for "any lawful purpose."506 The omission of "sporting" or its equivalent is apparent and would suggest that the transporting party may intend any lawful purpose, including self-defense, at his or her destination.
Lawful Carrying at Origin and Destination
S. 2414 would require that the transportation be from an area where the person may possess "and carry" the arm to a place where he may do the same.507 This raises the question of what manner of carrying is being addressed. Carrying restrictions can vary; in some states concealed carrying is banned, while open carrying is subject to no regulation.508 Others require a permit to carry on or about the person, regardless of purpose,509 while others only restrict carrying for non-sporting purposes.510 The legislative history reflects an intention of a simple and pragmatic test: the transporter must be entitled to carry in the way he carries during the transportation; he must be legally qualified to carry an [Page 680] unloaded, inaccessible firearm outside a vehicle's passenger compartment both where he begins and where he ends his journey.511
Nature of the Transportation
The shift from transportation "in interstate commerce" to transportation from one "place" to another512 raises an initial question of whether intrastate trips through a locality with restrictive firearms laws might be covered. There is no explanation of the deletion of "in interstate commerce" in S. 2414's legislative history. On the more general question of whether it was intended to reach intrastate trips, the legislative history implies, but not unequivocally, that interstate trips remain the target. One Representative, for instance, mentioned that both FOPA and S. 2414 cover trips "in interstate commerce,"513 but received a response that travelers are protected "after they leave the boundaries of their state or local jurisdiction."514 The responding Representative then, only a few moments later, described S. 2414 as a protection "for interstate travelers."515 Conversely, even with its restriction to travels in interstate commerce, it had been suggested that FOPA would reach travel within a state.516 The better reading would probably be to restrict the coverage of this section to interstate commerce, particularly in light of the preamble's failure to make findings that protection of intrastate trips was necessary to a valid federal objective.517

 

you mean 180? That's a rough neighborhood, crack rock heaven. Any of them westside exits I wouldn't park near.