[AT] [at] towing tractors with a pickup

[deanvp at att.net]

There are all kinds of ways rules are bent: Subaru didn't want to pay the
higher import tariff rates on one of their early pickups many years ago so
they added two seats in the pickup bed and called it a passenger vehicle.
Supposedly kids are not ready to drive until they are 16 but as a farm boy I
had a license to drive at 14. However, I was only allowed on the roads
between the farm and the school. No others.  I don't remember abusing that
privilege and there was plenty opportunity to do so.  Let's not talk about
between 16 and 18.

Dean VP
Apache junction, AZ

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From: AT <at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com> On Behalf Of Ralph Goff
Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2019 8:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [AT] [at] towing tractors with a pickup

On 3/30/2019 8:31 AM, James Peck wrote:
> Earlier in my life, Ohio, the state of my birth, had two classifications
of license plates for trucks, farm and commercial. Farm plates were much
more reasonably priced. The price difference led to lots of abuse. A farmer
we knew told of getting stopped in an upscale Cleveland suburb and the
interior of the panel truck with farm plates was inspected for evidence that
the vehicle was actually on a farm related trip, which it wasn't. That man
started carrying a crate of fruit for evidence he was on a farm related
trip. Ohio created a noncommercial classification instead of the farm
classification.

Yes, abuse happens to any program like that. Farm gas dyed purple used to be
half the price of road (car) gas so it helped sell a lot of pickup trucks
here. Nothing wrong with that but as well, a lot of classic 50s-60s cars
were chopped down to turn them into a truck. Its true, with the back of the
roof cut off we could license those former cars with an "F" plate. Cheap,
and cheap gas in the tank. Kind of breaks your heart to look at a 56 Pontiac
sitting in the bush at a farm auction with the back of the roof cut off.

Ralph in Sask.

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