Hello all, I would like to take a second to vent and ask for some opinions.
Yesterday while in my other truck, a 2006 silverado 2500HD CCLB gasser I got pulled over on a local parkway. This truck is registered as passenger, (here in NY if you're over 5500lbs you need a cap with a seat and seatbelts installed in the bed in order to register passenger). I've got an aluminum cap with front and rear windows, I installed side windows to make it legal here in NY for registration purposes. I also had my snow plow on the truck, here I am doing 55 m.p.h. in the right lane and see the officer pull out in front of me then promptly pull behind me and put the lights on. I pull over and he gets out and the first thing he does is open the back of my truck without asking. I'm not up to par on the laws but am I wrong by saying that is nearly the same as opening someones trunk without asking? This bothered me quite a bit, truck bed was empty anyway so I wasn't worried. He then comes to my window and introduces himself then says he pulled me over for driving with my snow plow. I may have heard in the past about parkways and snow plows, could be my fault. Then tells me that the truck is used as commercial, (which it is NOT) along with telling me I have an improper registered vehicle due to the fact that I do not have seats and seat belts in the bed of my truck. I understand this is the NY state law in order to drive on parkways which is perfectly fine. I won't argue with that, my problem is the fact that I have a legal cap on my truck and obey the law, have passenger plates on my truck and every damn day I see 3/4 and 1 ton trucks on the parkway with commercial plates and no caps, ladder racks and all and have never once seen them pulled over as we pass the police. I know this may just be a rant but it bugs the crap out of me. I try to do the right thing and I get popped with a ticket. Anywho, back to the point. Does anyone know off hand of the law and if what the officer did by opening my truck without asking was legal? I am by no means badmouthing the police, I've had quite a few family members who were LEO's and very respectable ones at that. Sorry for the long post.thanks for letting me vent
Nick
Yesterday while in my other truck, a 2006 silverado 2500HD CCLB gasser I got pulled over on a local parkway. This truck is registered as passenger, (here in NY if you're over 5500lbs you need a cap with a seat and seatbelts installed in the bed in order to register passenger). I've got an aluminum cap with front and rear windows, I installed side windows to make it legal here in NY for registration purposes. I also had my snow plow on the truck, here I am doing 55 m.p.h. in the right lane and see the officer pull out in front of me then promptly pull behind me and put the lights on. I pull over and he gets out and the first thing he does is open the back of my truck without asking. I'm not up to par on the laws but am I wrong by saying that is nearly the same as opening someones trunk without asking? This bothered me quite a bit, truck bed was empty anyway so I wasn't worried. He then comes to my window and introduces himself then says he pulled me over for driving with my snow plow. I may have heard in the past about parkways and snow plows, could be my fault. Then tells me that the truck is used as commercial, (which it is NOT) along with telling me I have an improper registered vehicle due to the fact that I do not have seats and seat belts in the bed of my truck. I understand this is the NY state law in order to drive on parkways which is perfectly fine. I won't argue with that, my problem is the fact that I have a legal cap on my truck and obey the law, have passenger plates on my truck and every damn day I see 3/4 and 1 ton trucks on the parkway with commercial plates and no caps, ladder racks and all and have never once seen them pulled over as we pass the police. I know this may just be a rant but it bugs the crap out of me. I try to do the right thing and I get popped with a ticket. Anywho, back to the point. Does anyone know off hand of the law and if what the officer did by opening my truck without asking was legal? I am by no means badmouthing the police, I've had quite a few family members who were LEO's and very respectable ones at that. Sorry for the long post.thanks for letting me vent
Nick