From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Sun Nov 14 2004 - 15:58:19 PST
You hit the nail on the head. I can understand being required to go through
certain loops if you're, in fact, commercial but I don't make a penny with
what I do, instead I believe its a good role model and an education to show
and/or use an old military vehicle.
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: <Recovry4x4@aol.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Highway truck scales
> Sonny, while I concur with your thoughts on this matter I have to say
this.
> If you don't resemble the part, don't even loosly imitate the part. If you
have
> hair down to your waste and insist on wearing tye dye shirts you will most
> certainly draw attention to yourself. My contention is if you loosly
resemble
> the part and just happen to be wearing a green or brown tee shirt than you
> probably won't be noticed when you're cruising around. Now even if you
look the
> part and have 3 harleys on the back of the truck then you won't get by
incognito.
> I can tell you that when I'm out on the road with the license plates in
the
> cab, I wear a green or brown tee shirt. When I jump out it becomes
painfully
> obvious that I'm not trying to imitate any soldiers as I have my church
shoes
> (holy) and worn out jeans on. No hard set rules here. Do what you think
you can
> get away with but be prepared to pay if you push the envelope too far.
> Kenny
>
> In a message dated 11/14/04 3:01:00 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> sonny@defuniak.com writes:
>
> > I do believe that, if you care to check it, weigh stations are for
> > commercial vehicles ONLY. Thats why I said what I did. I thought I
said,
> > or at least I meant to say that "if it were me". We start this crap of
> > going in to weigh stations with our military trucks and pretty soon
some
> > jerk will get it written in to a law that we MUST stop and then the
next
> > thing will be a log book requirement and then next will be the fifteen
> > hundred dollar tag and then the fifteen hundred dollar liability
insurance
> > bill, so stop if you want to but I'am of the opinion that its asking
for
> > trouble.
> >
>
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