WOW!!!!
I am in western Texas heading through New Mexico and Arizona soon. I have no idea how to comply with this law. Maybe I should try to bypass Arizona.
Harrison
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From: lightcapturephoto
To: artshow_photo@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 10:01 AM
Subject: [artshow_photo] Commerical Vechicle Status
I have just experienced a nightmare of a situation. I have been doing art shows for the past five years and up until this point I have never been pulled over by the highway patrol. Yesterday I arrived in the Phoenix Metro area to do the Fountain Hills show. As I was driving down I-17 I get pulled over by the Arizona Highway Patrol. The officer asks me if I could show him my driver's log book. I replied that I am not a commercial vehicle. He says that my Ford F-250 and my Wells Cargo 6 X 12 trailer is over the 10,000 pound threshold (by 600lbs) and that I need to have a drivers log, a US DOT number displayed on my truck, fire extinguisher and three reflecting triangles, I can only drive 10 hours per day then have to rest for 8 hours. The officer then does a complete commercial vehicle inspection on both my truck and my trailer, and then tells me that I am out of service.
I arrive in Fountain Hills drop my trailer and drive over to my cousins house (he is a real commercial truck driver). My cousin tells me that in Arizona they have just passed a law that states that if you are driving and/or pulling a trailer and that vehicle or combination of vehicles is over 10,000 pounds and you do not have a drivers log book you are breaking the law in Arizona and it is a federal offense. According to my cousin this not only applies to us as art show vendors but also applies to Uncle Bob pulling an RV with a F-250 from Alberta.
Has anyone else dealt with a situation like this? I would like to know before I go out and register my F-250 and my trailer as a commercial vehicle. Also since I am from Washington State I am going to call the DOT and or licensing department.
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