All the more reason to get a copy of the laws of your state and keep them
in your truck. I do.
With my older street driven lifted truck I was pulled over more than
once. I was completely legal, to the letter of the law but for whatever
reason (probably personal but I can't say) I was pulled over and given a
height check. I have gotten into more than one discussion over 'officer
interpretation' on the side of the road over said laws too. They really
hate it when you are prepared to back up your side with fact with a copy
taken out of your glove compartment.
I usually got off with warnings (I had to get SOMETHING for the trouble
of being pulled over...) but on one instance I was still given a ticket and
it was cleared after I 'fixed it'(by doing absolutely nothing..). I took
it to a substation to be checked and it was considered ok and 'fixed'.
I still believe that I got the ticket because the officer wasn't about to
admit that the 'Dick-less Tracy' was in the wrong. She struck me as having
that "anti-man" attitude with everything to prove so it didn't help having
me want to discuss the written law with her, in print and she didn't want
to hear it. I just got the 'take it up in court' crap. She was the only
one too that asked to search my truck when she pulled me over. Probably
because I was questioning her authority. I was polite,respectful, and gave
her no reason except for questioning her judgement over the stop.
I want to have respect for the officers as the job they do can be
dangerous and thankless at times but with any group there are Jerks. I
have good friends who are officers in another state and my father was even
a Virginia State Trooper back in the 50s.
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Terrible Tom wrote:
>
>
> I was nailed about 3 years ago for speeding in Wisconsin on the way up to
> look at houses (before I moved outta Chicago).
>
> The Explorer had the lighted emblems that glow blue. (they both fell off and
> I am going to replace them eventually)
>
> Cop told me to turn them off - that I could not have any blue lights on the
> truck at all. I played stupid and said they turn on and off with the
> headlights and park lights - that I couldn't turn them off seperatly - that
> it was like that when we bought the truck. (obviously it was night time when
> I was pulled over hehe)
>
> He said well you can't have them on, you need to have someone look into that
> - and then promptly wrot eme up for speeding.
>
> As we all know - the individual officer involved has a lot to do with the
> outcome of a violation. And where you live has an even bigger outcome.
>
> It was a state cop that pulled me over , with Illinois plates at the time,
> and on family experiance, Wisconsin cops - both local and state - tend to
> pull over more out of state (read F.I.B's) than in-state plated cars.
>
> I've gotten away with lots of stuff in the past that if I had out of state
> plates, would have landed me hefty fines.
>
> As for the legality of mods... I agree with what others have aid already.
> For cops to start ticketing on the basis of what looks legal to them and what
> doesn't - is BS. If they suspect something - they should be able to write up
> an inspection order or something - have your car inspected by such and such a
> date or face a fine.
>
> They have fix-it tickets here in Wisc, where if you have a bulb out or a
> lense broken etc - you have so many days to have it fixed or face a fine.
> Luckily where I am we have no smog and no safety inspections heh.
>
> I won't be able to drive *any* of my trucks on the road, if they ever start
> doing that here :-)
>
>
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