Maryland MV owners are in trouble

[midcounty]

Maryland has a bill up that will eliminate historic tags on trucks over 10k pound GVW. http://mlis.state.md.us/2012rs/bills/sb/sb0846f.pdf . We need to make a big stand here, or we will have to pay out the butt for tags and have to conform to DOT regulations

 

[338lapua09]

Well ins't that just special........I can tell you that I did not vote for anyone of those s.o.b's that have put thier name to this....not only wieght but added 5 years to the age....

 

[11Echo]

This wouldn't just be a military vehicle issue.
Apparently this would invlove all trucks over 10,000 gvw.
Should try to get help/backing from groups like the American Truck Historical Society in defeating this.

 

[atankersdad]

Welcome to the Peoples Republic of MD. I am glad all my deuces are tagged at 9900 lbs. Been doing that for 4 years, so if you got a deuce from me you are safe...I hate this state..

 

[twa@ezdn.net]

Good luck.

 

[midcounty]

Welcome to the Peoples Republic of MD. I am glad all my deuces are tagged at 9900 lbs. Been doing that for 4 years, so if you got a deuce from me you are safe...I hate this state..

But then if you get weighed you are in trouble. This would effectively make it not worth tagging three of my trucks, and cost me more money to tag my M1009s. Where do they get off limiting historics by weight. Just because my trucks are over 10k doesn't mean they aren't a part of history.

 

[swbradley1]

That isn't good. I'm looking at a job in MD.

 

[Sephirothq]

a standard duece weights over 10k empty

 

[100acre]

if you can afford to... vote with your feet and get out of MD

 

[clinto]

This wouldn't just be a military vehicle issue.
Apparently this would invlove all trucks over 10,000 gvw.
Should try to get help/backing from groups like the American Truck Historical Society in defeating this.

Yupp.

You Maryland guys need to organize, pick a leader who has good people and mgmt. skills and build a coalition of like minded groups (ATHS, MVPA {}, etc.) and either defeat it or get it changed/amended.

 

[B3.3T]

Is the American Truck Historical Society involved in fighting this? If not, they should be...

 

[rfischba1]

Yep, MD sucks when it comes to regulations and taxes, all MVA costs have doubled in the last 1.5 yrs and now fuel tax going up 20 cents a gallon. O'Malley still has 4 more years.
I need to get out of this taxing state!

 

[Whitey]

Well, isn't this great. I'm annoyed that someone always feels a need to regulate everything I do. This makes a crappy start to the day. At least it's Friday.

-Whitey

 

[camotruck67]

Can't wait to get out of Maryland. They over tax and over regulate everything you do.
1 1/2 years to go.

 

[Amer-team]

If it hasn't gone to hearing yet, you guys need to pack the hearing room. Get some veterans in there, get someone from your state VA office, submit some photos of vehicles in parades with smiling people in them. And turn out as many at the capitol in MV's as possible. That should create an interesting parking situation for them. Of course call your local media, if you have somone that covers you in parades, in a good light. Send a note to the National MVPA office. There are MVPA's that are not on this site.
Hopefully you have someone on the list of sponsor's that is a friend and they put their name on it purely because they didn't know.

We had a similar amendment in WA last year and after talking with a friend, it did not come out of committee. Get on them quick.

 

[big1096]

I have sent emails to the heads of the Maryland chapters of the ATHS. This is something that we need to get to fighting, post haste! If these thieves in the legislature think they can make a buck to give to the low rents, we are in for an uphill fight!

I also sent email to the MVPA. I am trying to post the info on their bulletin board, but it won't let me in at the moment….

 

[SCRAP]

well , you can always farm area tag them. with farm tags you can register it up to 80k with no state inspection. You are supposed to have 3.5 acres for farm status, but this is never checked. A buddy of mine has one acre waterview property and claimed farm status. farm tag means no cdl,dot, or logbook. its the only way to go

 

[steelandcanvas]

well , you can always farm area tag them. with farm tags you can register it up to 80k with no state inspection. You are supposed to have 3.5 acres for farm status, but this is never checked. A buddy of mine has one acre waterview property and claimed farm status. farm tag means no cdl,dot, or logbook. its the only way to go

Not a good idea, you won't put your interests in a good light by breaking the law.
Find out who the Bill sponsors are, and contact their office. Find out where the Bill is in the process. Amer-team is right on with showing up in force, but be courteous and respectful of others in the Statehouse, word spreads quickly if folks become un-ruly. Maybe the sponsors didn't think about the impact to the hobby when writing this Bill, let them know what effect it will have on the MV collectors in Maryland. If you don't do something, and you sit on your hands and think someone else will do it, be prepared for losing your Historic plates. It can be done, "city hall" can be beat.

 

[midcounty]

Would taking the trucks to Annapolis be a good thing or bad? I would fear too many Jack Holes would see the big scary trucks and say no we don't want those on the roads. I do believe flooding them with pictures of them in parades, and having veterans present are great ideas. I can supply some pictures of my trucks carrying Cub Scouts in parades, which they loved!

 

[big1096]

Also if you read further into the bill, they want to remove the occasional transportation clause. This would then would limit your use of ANY historic vehicle to parades and events only. This is going to be a change that is reaches FAR into our hobby, as well as any other historic vehicle hobby.

I am working on letters to send to the State Senators who have introduced this bill. The email addresses are as follows:

Senator Jennie Forehand - jennie.forehand@senate.state.md.us

Senator Nancy King - nancy.king@senate.state.md.us

Senator Victor Ramirez - victor.ramirez@senate.state.md.us

I have sent the emails. I don't know that it will really make much of an impact at this point because I don't live in Montgomery Co. where this was introduced, but we have to start somewhere. Hopefully it won't get out of committee.