From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Wed Dec 14 2005 - 16:44:07 PST
It may mean that to you Mike, but it dosen't to me or anyone I know of
around my area. So if we have a garage sale we're in business?
Just hope you don't get stopped on the way to the meet or on the way home is
all I can say.
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
> The main problem I see in all of this is the definition of commerce/
From: "Michael Howell" <doctormv@frontiernet.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] DOT gonna get you
> business. For the IRS you have to show a profit 3 out of five years. I
> for one, can not show that with my MV hobby. The DOT definition seems to
> be that it is commerce if you receive any compensation. So if you pull
> your restored MV to a show and throw in a few of the take off parts you
> replaced with NOS parts and sell them; doesn't that mean you got
> compensation? I am pretty sure that it could include people like me who
> have been collecting for 20 years and are taking a trailer load of stuff
> that they have accumulated over the years that they want to get rid of. I
> have been a vendor twice now. Does that mean every time I make a trip to
> DRMO to pick up stuff that it is commerce now?
>
> They are getting the racers because they are competing for a cash prize.
> I don't know if they will ever get so bad as to claim a prize trophy is
> compensation or not. I have never entered a MV in a show so I don't even
> know what the prizes are if you win.
>
> One of the things that caught my eye was that the article seemed to say
> that the cut off was 10001 pounds gross combined weight. A 1/2 ton pick
> up with a single axle trailer can cross that line. I know that this would
> mean we are no longer talking about a Class A CDL. It seemed to imply
> that you would need a log book medical card safety devices etc though.
> Mike
> Tishomingo, Mississippi
>
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