Travel with side ladder attached?

bkirkpatrick wrote:

tgreening wrote:
Apparently one of those signs was about width limitations

So you got a ticket for failing to obey a traffic control device (sign) because you were too wide and not actually a ticket for merely driving down the road and being "too wide". There is a difference between the two.

I fail to see the significant difference so you might want to explain it to me. Too wide is too wide, whether it's for the standard width limitations or some arbitrary number stated on a road sign somewhere. That is what I got a ticket for, not for failing to obey the literal multiple bill boards worth of signs in the construction zone. No, I didn't obey. I could not read all the info they contained, and manage to not hit something in the process. The officer did make a point (for some reason) of telling me that they had written 1.5 million $ in tickets during the 6 wks the construction had been going on.

Standard roads have width limitations as a matter of course. In my case the width limitation was different from the norm, which matters not one bit. The point is that it is absolutely possible to get a ticket for being too wide on your standard road. As in many things traffic law related it is entirely dependent on the officer involved.


Highway width limits are 102", which according to the sales propaganda is the exact width of my "wide body" fiver. Leaving my ladder attached makes me exceed that limit by probably somewhere around 6", don't know for sure, never measured it, but I am without a doubt over the width limits and any officer that was of a mind would be perfectly within the law to give me a ticket.