Yeah, he saw your Wisconsin plate and knew he had a live one.
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I think safety regulations are (or were) laxer for trucks.
I am thinking back to @Mustangman comments. Somewhere a bell rings that mandates cars offered by a manufacturer with a minimum average mile rating, now the rav4 is 23/28 but if trucks are not included, wow conspiracy theory! Just to repeat the title lists chassis as truck.
SUVs and passenger vans with a versatile cargo space (folding or removable seats) are classified as light trucks by the EPA. It has been this was for 30 years, nothing mysterious about it.
From a Chicago tribune article, appears to be at the officers discretion.
āThe Illinois Vehicle Code defines a truck as āany motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property.ā Troopers will have discretion to apply the rule to any cargo carrier, whether itās an 18-wheel tractor-trailer or a carpenterās pickup with a load of lumber in the back, said tollway spokeswoman Sari Mintzā
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Any place on the NY Thruway that is 3 lanes or more in the same direction has signs posted that say, Trucks, Buses and Vehicles with Trailers are prohibited from left lane.
I was bob tailing ( driving just t6he tractor portion of a tractor trailer ) in the left lane of I-90 through downtown Buffalo when I was pulled over by a Buffalo policemen. He said he was going to give me a ticket for driving a truck in the left lane.
I said, this is not a truck. He said , donāt be ridiculous, of course itās a truck. I said, No, itās a tractor. The license plate says tractor and so does the registration.
He said, Weāll see about that, and took my registration back to his car and was talking on his radio and gesturing with his arms. I could see thr red creeping up the back of his neck from his collar and he threw his microphone at the dash. He stormed back to my tru ,oops, I mean tractor and gave me back the license and registration and said, donāt let me catch you out there again.
I said, Yes sir. No sense pushing the point
In Virginia our 2011 Dodge Caravan is described as a āSport Vanā. So I guess it is neither car nor truck.
In summary, there is a federal definition of ātruckā that avoids the gas guzzler tax, your stateās definition of ātruckā which may or may not match the federal definition and finally, the manufacturerās source of the chassis parts used to make the vehicle.
I canāt stand people that just āknowā youāre wrong, until/unless you can prove otherwise
Iāve had bosses like that over the years
And in the end I typically did prove I was NOT wrong
Sometimes I think people are like that because they somehow have a feeling of āpowerā when theyāre sure that everybody else is wrong.
But when their employees prove that they were doing everything correctly, those types of bosses usually have some stupid comment such as āIt seems you were correct . . . this timeā
Yup, that about sums it up
I got off topic . . . as usual
Iām done ranting for a little while 