Ok, so I went outside and started power washing the 818 and started having some serious thoughts about life and stuff and why today is a crapy day for me and I started to realize where CSM Davis is coming from.
When we do our pre-plans with the fire dept and I go into an office and I see something that violates fire code I have to be able to cite the code when I tell them the violation. So instead of me telling them, you can't block the fire exit, or you can't daisy chain power strips, or plug 10 laser jet printers into one power strip, just because I said so, I need to be able to show them in the fire code, federal and state what I'm talking about.
So, in conclusion.
In the south alot of things are generaly overlooked, leo's turn the other cheek for bumper heights, mud flaps, and such, but up in the north I can see where it might be a little stricter.
Now, when these trucks were built they wern't intended to be licensed for normal highway use so the dod got an exemption for the federal standards for anything that didn't meet the current standard of the time it was built, and that includes things like mraps, and other modern vehicles.
Now that we own them in the private sector and are registering then for highway use we are susceptible to the standards now.
If I forget to turn on my service drive, I expect to get pulled over for no brake lights. Hopefully the cop will just want to talk about the truck and tell me I'm a goof and let me go. On the other hand if he is having a bad day he could cite me for no brakes lights, no mud flaps, non dot approved shatter proof windows, front bumper height, no license plate lamp, and whatever else he wants to find.
Point is, we do this because we enjoy the trucks. If you register it and the inspection station tells you to put a bumper at such and such height, just fab a receiver bumper and call it done, that's what half the people down here do.
This topic is just going and going and I don't see a good end without it being locked, and it doesn't need to come to that.
CSM Davis, I hope to sit down and have a beer with you on the 4th and BS about mv's.
The reason the tail lights are stuck in my head as an example is because I remember getting into a rear end accident at night because the person in front of me didn't have tail lights and decided to stop in the middle of the road. I couldn't stop in time. Luckily everybody was ok, and I remember the cop citing the car I hit for no rear lights, or something like that and cited them as fault.
So, how about them bears....