[larryweikartsr]

I have driven over 200,000 miles in the U.S. with our rig, which totals 71' , and have been ticketed 1 time for being over length. Guess where? Ca., of course and that was before the law governing Coach length, in Ca., was changed from 40' max to 45'. When we were ticketed we became very concerned and talked to every authority we could contact to see if we were going to have to change our set up. Talking to different State Police Dept's the bottom line was that they didn't want to pull our rig over to measure because of safety reasons. By the way, we were not really pulled over in Ca. but were leaving a truck stop Ca. , where a DOT officer had a reputation for waiting for big rigs to leave and getting them before they got back on the highway. This officer gave us 3 tickets, one for the total length, a second for over length Coach and, get this, a third for being too wide because of the Awning!! When I questioned him about the width issue, he became a little disturbed and ask me "Just how many f-----g tickets do you want?" I didn't speak again. We obviously had run into a little trap. He made us drop the trailer and hung around to make sure we didn't try to tow it out. We had to find a tow truck to take it to the race track. We never had another issue in all those miles. Almost every racing rig is over length and those guys never get tickets, except for speeding. I think it is a non-issue today. As my wife said when we got those tickets, "think about those tickets as a small fine for all the violations you've committed and gotten away with!" Ah, yes, the wisdom of a woman!