From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 05:53:36 PDT
Florida DMV told me I couldn't register my Freightliner converted RV Toter
as an RV after telling me before I started converting it that I could so
when I threatened them with a lawsuit they suddenly changed their minds.
Its a dadburned shame that know it all know nothings exist in this country.
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Grammont" <islander@midmaine.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Kansas say no to Ferrets
> Jon makes an excellent point. Knowledge of the law is usually the best
> way to fight the improper use of it. I know that several people on this
> list, who have had problems like this, educated themselves and went back
> at it with regs in hand and finally got things going in the right
> direction. Similarly, it's why I'm not paying disability insurance for
> myself for my own company. The insurance company said the State required
> it, but I didn't believe them. So I got the State's legal council on the
> phone and he said it was BS and was kind enough to tell me what obscure
> paragraph in a HUGE bill proved that it was. Armed with the facts the
> insurance company folded quickly. The squeaky wheel gets oiled (most of
> the time).
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Aug 1, 2005, at 9:37 PM, shoop19@brick.net wrote:
>
>> A quick scan of Kansas regs shows the following.....
>>
>> http://www.ksrevenue.org/pdf/forms/tr145.pdf
>>
>>
>> Special Interest, over 20 years old. Looks good to me. I see nothing that
>> stops someone from filing in that catagory....
>>
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>> On Aug 1, 2005, at 7:55 PM, Robert Peterson wrote:
>>>
>>>> If it's equipment, and not registerable, that does
>>>> mean it can be road transported, except on interstate
>>>> highways and turnpikes, does it not?
>>>> Cranes, well drills, forklifts, and other equipment
>>>> can be transported thus.
>>>
>>> I'm sure it is dependent upon the particular state rules, but I'd be
>>> surprised if there wasn't a distance limitation. I know around here
>>> farm equipment is allowed on public ways, but only for x number of
>>> feet. Same with ATVs and snowmobiles. The logic is that these
>>> vehicles are not supposed to be on the road and therefore are being
>>> granted a reasonable exception for situations when it is unavoidable.
>>> If you need to move a forklift from one side of town to the other you
>>> are therefore required to haul it there by some other mode of transport
>>> (like a trailer).
>>>
>>> There is a guy in town that got arrested for driving his ride-on
>>> lawnmower into town one fine afternoon. Lesson for today is that a
>>> ride-on lawnmower is not a clever way around logistics issues resulting
>>> from losing your driver's license (twice IIRC) for DWI offenses.
>>> Especially when you do it so drunk that you can barely stay on while
>>> yelling garbled obscenities at people.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
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