I dislike any rules or regulations that treat one class of people differently than others.
This is one of those instances.
All of the trucks in my fleet need to be certified annually, as are every trailer. So now we have a situation where my (literally) next door neighbour can take his 15 year old F350 down the road with his 30 year old car trailer behind him with zero requirement that anyone periodically looks at it to ensure they have good brakes, wheel bearings that aren’t about to spew, lights that work, etc., etc, etc.
I on the other hand have to have my nearly new F350 and even just single SeaDoo trailer certified every year because it’s registered to my company not me personally.
This is IMHO completely the opposite of what makes sense. Commercial operators who need their vehicles on the road every day to earn their livelihood need to prove they maintain their vehicles, but privately owned trucks and trailers that might not move for months (or years) are good to go..
You want to drive down the highway next to a camper pulling out onto the road for the first time in 30 years (and on those 30 year old tires) knowing it’s tires, brakes and bearings haven’t been even looked at since before the first Gulf War?
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