Some pondering: How many bus conversions exist?

[daddysgirl]

FMCA has long ago abandoned people with bus conversions he not getting any help there 

And to think I still have that emblem on the bus. That is sad. However, one thing I noticed..."Family" doesn't include mother and daughter. Went to a rally and the women were looking at us in a strange way.

[Dave5Cs]

And this is why California is regarded as being full of nutters. I used to live there.
Its similar to Europe (where I grew up)- you live to work, get taxed heavily and you live to obey strict regulations which are usually strictly enforced.

Good luck

Noticed you don't put where you live now? Nutter?? The more we can keep out the better for us, LOL

[lvmci]

Hi All, yes as daddys girl eluded to, the logo/symbol of the FMCA is a converted bus, a Flxible Flyer I think, next court date, I'd bring BCM magazine, motorhome and FMCA magazine as exhibits and if its a female judge tell her size doesnt matter! lvmci...

[B_K]

I'd do better than show the Judge a copy of BCM!
I'd contact Gary Hatt and ask him if BCM would kindly send 2 or 3 copies to the judge as a gift to educate him.
Who knows he could become one of us too!
  BK 

[daddysgirl]

Hi All, yes as daddys girl eluded to, the logo/symbol of the FMCA is a converted bus, a Flxible Flyer I think, next court date, I'd bring BCM magazine, motorhome and FMCA magazine as exhibits and if its a female judge tell her size doesnt matter! lvmci...

LMAO! Yep, that would work
All joking aside, what Circuit Court has jurisdiction? for all the help you all give me, I might actually be able to help with this one.

You're not in Federal Court, but the 9th Circuit is the most liberal in the country, and also the most overturned by SCOTUS. If it's registered as private, and you have no CDL, ask your lawyer about filing a complaint in Federal.
It might sound crazy, but you've got a potential valid Federal argument, that could end up being very significant. If you appeal at the State level you might end up having to appeal more than you should. JMHO...

[daveola]

Thanks for the advice, though I'm not all that worried about losing the appeal, I am confident I will win - this isn't the first time I've hit the ignorance of the traffic courts and had to go to an appeals court where they were intelligent enough to read their own laws.

And I don't know about Arizona, but in California there is no weight limit to passenger vehicles, so the 26,000 lbs doesn't matter here, not to mention that if the bus is stripped of seats it can actually go under 26,000 pounds.

[Dave5Cs]

You might want to check this out. There are weight limits here as you can see and Axle used on the vehicle you are intending to drive.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/web/eng_pdf/comlhdbk.pdf

[daveola]

You might want to check this out. There are weight limits here as you can see and Axle used on the vehicle you are intending to drive.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/web/eng_pdf/comlhdbk.pdf

Nope.  That's the commercial handbook.  Not commercial.

[Scott & Heather]

So I'm curious how you ended up in court? Isn't your bus stranded at a shop waiting for a new tranny?


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[Dave5Cs]

Yes but there is the non commercial Class C license requirement also in that book and what you can drive with a regular class C standard license also.
Dave

[luvrbus]

CA has axle weight limits on RV's, probably like always when the plate and vin number was ran by the officer the MCI bus showed up they always do

[Dave5Cs]

Not mine. Mine shows up in DMV and Ins as MCI MH. The only thing they want to know is where are the other letters in your Vin and then I tell them about prior to 1980 the MCI's only had 5 places. 

[daveola]

So I'm curious how you ended up in court? Isn't your bus stranded at a shop waiting for a new tranny?

I'm fighting a bogus parking ticket from over a year ago.  An angry cop came out and demanded I move from a legally parked spot, I asked him why it was illegally parked and he didn't like that, so he made up $1000 of bogus violations (such as lying about missing reflectors on the bus when the bus had the required reflectors).

I've managed to get all of the citations thrown out except for the commercial vehicle nonsense, which is funny, because that's the easiest one to prove, but the judge is an idiot.

[daveola]

Yes but there is the non commercial Class C license requirement also in that book and what you can drive with a regular class C standard license also.

Good point:

YOU MAY DRIVE:
With a nonCommerCial Class a Driver license:
Any vehicles under Class C.
Any housecar over 40 feet but not over 45 feet

(Note that weight is not mentioned)

[daveola]

Not mine. Mine shows up in DMV and Ins as MCI MH

Same here, there's a big difference between BU and MH in California