Trailer and Total Length

[Gregory OConnor]

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, krminyl@... wrote:
>
> 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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