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long25
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What is the name of your state? Missouri
Hello, yesterday i got stopped at what was called a "license checkpoint" by missouri troopers ( who were actually parked in a private business drive, and i don't think they can do that)...I was driving my GMC pick-up, he asked me if there was a reason why i wasn't wearing my seatbelt?.....after a puzzled look from me i said " I'm in a truck, you don't have to wear one in a truck, pretty sure of it"...he then said "I have plates registering under 12000 pounds or something, and i'm supposed too". I am 37 years of age , been driving for a few years, i have always thought, and everybody else i have asked agrees with me......you don't have to wear one in a truck in Missouri, unless your 18 years of age or younger. I looked in the State of Missouri Department of Revenue drivers manual...and it states the following "Missouri law requires all front seat occupants in passenger CARS and persons under 18 years of age riding in or operating a truck must wear a seatbelt" . That is ALL that it says in the book. I checked their website, and it says word for word the same thing. The Missouri state troopers website has the statutes.....and after alot of digging i found some crap about vehicles under 12,000 pound , and having to wear one. IT IS NOT IN MY DRIVERS BOOK, NEVER HAS BEEN, AND NOT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUES SITE EITHER. How can they honestly do this? How can they enforce a law, that nobody is shown, or even told about? I don't think they are right. I would like to fight it if i had a chance. Also, don't they have to get my signitature? He put a "X" where my name was to be signed, but forgot to ask me....so it's blank down there. I had heard before...that if you show up for court and the officer isn't there too, it will be throwed out. Is that true?.........
Hello, yesterday i got stopped at what was called a "license checkpoint" by missouri troopers ( who were actually parked in a private business drive, and i don't think they can do that)...I was driving my GMC pick-up, he asked me if there was a reason why i wasn't wearing my seatbelt?.....after a puzzled look from me i said " I'm in a truck, you don't have to wear one in a truck, pretty sure of it"...he then said "I have plates registering under 12000 pounds or something, and i'm supposed too". I am 37 years of age , been driving for a few years, i have always thought, and everybody else i have asked agrees with me......you don't have to wear one in a truck in Missouri, unless your 18 years of age or younger. I looked in the State of Missouri Department of Revenue drivers manual...and it states the following "Missouri law requires all front seat occupants in passenger CARS and persons under 18 years of age riding in or operating a truck must wear a seatbelt" . That is ALL that it says in the book. I checked their website, and it says word for word the same thing. The Missouri state troopers website has the statutes.....and after alot of digging i found some crap about vehicles under 12,000 pound , and having to wear one. IT IS NOT IN MY DRIVERS BOOK, NEVER HAS BEEN, AND NOT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUES SITE EITHER. How can they honestly do this? How can they enforce a law, that nobody is shown, or even told about? I don't think they are right. I would like to fight it if i had a chance. Also, don't they have to get my signitature? He put a "X" where my name was to be signed, but forgot to ask me....so it's blank down there. I had heard before...that if you show up for court and the officer isn't there too, it will be throwed out. Is that true?.........