Driving with a trailer hitch while not towing ? WTF??

screw that!

I'm gonna mod my truck and tail gate. Removing the balls as then it wouldn't be a 'Trailer Hitch'

 

These last two posts make me happy! :grin:

 

I wish I could find a picture to show you what I mean, though it was a custom job. When I was younger, I saw a truck with a really big bumper on the back. It was a solid steel affair that looked like a tube bumper with a ball in the center. Though when you grasped the ball and pulled outward, it would actually slide out from the tube where an arm from the left and an arm from the right, came together and turned into an extended hitch. The ball then stood out from the truck a couple of feet for pulling trailers and the like. I always thought of some poor schmuck running into it. That car would have been no more.

There is always someone trying to make money by coming up with the dumbest laws and garbage. I bet it is not the police that is concerned by this so much as it is some micro-managing idiot with nothing better to do. It is not the ball that obscures the tag so much as it is the add-ons that people buy for the ball. Such as the bullet, deerhead and other things that stand above the ball. In the human mind, you can put together things that are minimally obscured. You see the top half of letters and numbers, your mind will complete the lower half and bingo, you know what you are looking at. However if you obscure a few numbers totally, then your mind doesn't have anything to go on. Still and all, shouldn't the gov be more worried about getting us out of this mess that the country is in, instead of worrying about tags?

There has to be a solution to the problem pervading the land. People worry too much about nothing and not enough about something.

 

Obviously this regulation isn't pandering to the panel beating industry lobby.... ; )

 

I'd bet any such idiotic laws as banning hitches not in use are simply attempts by the local Goobermint to generate revenue from fines. They see us as Golden Geese to be squeezed for all the golden eggs we can produce.

 

A great way to deter tailgators too! Love it! Me and a buddy were looking at these hay gizmos at the Tractor Supply Store last weekend.

 

Dude .. I registered just to say .... You need to get F****d.... You dont need your hitch in all day every day.

 

Nice initial post.

 

Sounds like a guy with a sore knee....

 

From new member to ignored by me in less than 3 hours! A new record!

 

There are a great many things you don't need like a car that goes faster than the speed limit, a house larger than the basic needs of your family, food you enjoy rather than the minimal necessary to keep you alive, etc.. Here's what I don't need: Politicians that have nothing better to do than worry about whether or not I have a hitch installed in my truck. This is part of the soft tyranny our government uses to condition us so we act like subjects (as in subjugated) instead of citizens. I also need even less some cheezdeek nitwit weighing in to tell me that, not to mention that you were responding to a necro thread that hasn't seen the light of day in five years. I'd tell you to mind your own damn business, but it sounds like you are waiting for an authority to mind it for you.

 

I make a point of leaving mine in all day every day....three accidents now where some inattentive tool has run up the back of me and damaged nothing more than the plastic cover I have on the ball....well ....that's all they have damaged on mine....theirs on the other hand..... This thread is however bordering on SIX YEARS old so it could well have been dead....someone should stab this zombie in the bloody head.....

 

Nah, the drive-by cranky poster, as was already mentioned, probably busted up their knee/shin/leg running behind a parked vehicle in the daytime, then fell into parking lot, striking head on pavement, causing mild brain damage along with the permanent limp. Thus making them unemployable except for lowly service jobs where dealing with people is not required. So they now spend their days striking out against the lowly trailer hitch and their owners.

 

My hitch is a part of what holds the wheel chair bracket I made .
I've had plenty of cops behind me and said nothing .

 

Welcome to the tree.......and........bless your little heart.

 

Boom, Talk about a shot from the dark!