Plain ridiculous .. your truck is nicely lowered, but not slammed or in the
weeds. I bet if you took a car like a corvette or viper you'd have similar
ground clearance. So why not ticket those as well?
At least with air ride when you're getting pulled over you could raise it
back up and tell the cop it must have been a figment of his imagination ;-)
Bill
At 08:33 PM 5/7/2003 -0400, Bill Bailey wrote:
>I've been reading some of the comments concerning the down in the weeds
>stance that some people prefer on their old truck and I thought I would
>pass this along.
>Recently I have run into quite a bit of trouble in Virginia with the state
>police ticketing for being "too low" it has happened to my truck and to a
>truck of similar ride height that belongs to a friend of mine. Interestingly
>enough both tickets came within a few hundred yards of on another.
>Apparently in the Commonwealth of Virginia the police have squashed crime to
>the point where all they have to deal with now are middle aged men in the
>truck toys, hardened criminals that they be.
>I don't think my truck is all that low (you can see it on my website below
>and judge for yourself) but apparently it doesn't meet the requirements of
>some irrelevant law buried deep in the Virginia codebooks. Something to
>consider when you're building a truck..who wants to be hassled by trooper
>with nothing better to do everytime they take their truck out?
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