From: uniquemachine@cybcon.com
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 11:45:18 PST
I have driven past several weigh stations without stopping either
in my old M35A2 or the M923A1 that I have now. One time in my
old deuce there happened to be a big convoy of military vehicles in
the same area, so the CHP probably figured I was with the group. I
can't imagine what all the guys in the convoy thought when a rogue
deuce blew past them!!! :) I also drive regularly past another
weigh station that is regularly passed by convoys heading out to a
Marine base.
Jon
On 15 Dec 2005, at 11:03, Mark J. Blair, NF6X wrote:
> Recovry4x4@aol.com wrote:
> > Now here's the $1,000,000.00
> > question, how many folks here have actually been stopped in their
> > MV and why?
>
> I have not been stopped in any of my MVs, but I also haven't put too
> many miles on my deuces, and haven't taken them on trips that pass any
> weigh stations. Most of my MV road miles have been in my HMMWV. My
> deuces have CA Historical Vehicle plates, which exempts them from
> needing to stop at weigh stations here. I haven't personally
> experienced what would happen if I blew by a weigh station in one of
> them, but I figure that any CHP officer who saw that would most likely
> assume I'm active military and ignore me anyway.
>
> Once I used one of my deuces to retrieve a 1.5-ton generator trailer
> from the DRMO yard. The civilian gate guard just opened the gate and
> waved me through, rather than the usual check id, sign in, wait for GL
> personnel, etc. rigamarole that I would experience if I showed up in a
> civvy vehicle. I happened to be wearing green BDU pants, too, and
> nobody questioned my walking around the yard and looking at trucks. I
> wasn't intentionally trying to impersonate military personnel (I was
> in the habit of wearing BDU pants at the time, even to work), but
> everybody clearly assumed that I was military, anyway. I don't think
> the guard checked my paperwork on the way out, either. If I was the
> dishonest type, I probably could have towed just about anything out of
> that yard.
>
> On a later trip, the gate guard was a rather rotund guy who looked
> like he was getting winded just sitting still, and was wearing a gun
> belt with an empty revolver holster. Yes, an empty holster. I really
> had a hard time keeping a straight face while signing in.
>
> --
> Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x@nf6x.net>
> Web page: http://www.nf6x.net/
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