Trailer and Total Length

[krminyl@...]

Leroy,

I pull a 24' (box length) enclosed trailer, with a dune buggy and quads
inside. I have a 38' PT, and my total overall length is 68' 6", and I am
overlength by 3 1/2 feet. I've been doing it since 2001.

I've never been stopped, but I know someone who has (he was 75'
overall....and he looked like a freight train). His ticket cost him $700, he
was
deadlined at the side of the road on the California/Airzona border, and he had
to
call someone with a dually pickup to take the trailer.

My dune buggy group all have 40 footer+ motorhomes, and pull 24' trailers,
and one even has a 42 footer and pulls his 24 foot box trailer. None have
been stopped.

I think if you stick to the freeways and other similar roadways, stay off
the city streets, most cops and highway patrol types will leave you alone. If
you are ever involved in a collision, and you are at fault, you can be
assured that the oversize issue will play a huge part in the civil litigation
which
will surely follow.

I'm considering downsizing to a smaller trailer, to keep me legal. FWIW....

Kevin McKeown
Yorba Linda, CA
1986 38' PT



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