Is Arizona doing everything possible to convince the rest of the world
to go away?
They seem to be particularly confused about what is a state offense and
what is a federal offense. In this case, nothing they can do will make
driving your rig a federal offense, and they may well have overstepped
the bounds of a state interfering with interstate commerce. They don't
much care, note how happy the Arizona legislature is to attempt to
regulate international travel.
But it's not all that unreasonable for a state to have such a rule,
there are states that allow three trailers behind a Kenworth and states
that only allow two, and they seem to get away with that. It's
remarkable that they didn't decide to require a commercial driver's
license at the same level.
As to licensing your truck as a commercial vehicle, are they requiring
that? When I was working in Seattle I always licensed my car as a
commercial vehicle because it made parking for deliveries downtown much
easier. Haven't looked at the rates recently, but it used to be a
trivial expense compared to the convenience it gained.
The requirement doesn't actually seem that onerous unless you regularly
drive more than ten hours per day inside Arizona. I don't think they can
require you to log your driving outside the state. And they can't
require you to drive inside the state at all.
Van
On 24/02/2011 8:01 AM, lightcapturephoto wrote:
>
> 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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