One of the Nostalgia Super Stock Guys got busted by the IL State Troopers, on the way to the NMCA race at Gateway, Memorial Day weekend.
Gray haired, grandpa, Fred Radier was towing a 24', non-stickered, enclosed trailer (under 10K GVW), with his 2500 Dodge Ram.
Trooper pulled him over asked what he had in the trailer. Fred responded, a race car. Trooper looked at the car and said because the car had stickers on it (contingency decals?), he was racing for money, and that made him commercial. Trooper said he had to have CDL lisc., log book, DOT physical, DOT number, etc. Fred's car is a 12 second car, that doesn't even have a name on the side!
After some arguing and a call to Doug Duel, trooper let Fred go after taking down his info.
A week later, Fred got a ticket in the mail, addressed to "Fred Radier Racing". $750.00 fine for no DOT numbers on his "rig".... and if it wasn't paid promptly, it would be $1,000.00.
This isn't some second-hand, internet story. It happened this year to one of our friends we race with at NMCA.
I haven't heard the outcome, but apparently, the IL Troopers have declared war on Drag Racers, especially the very dangerous ones with gray hair, from out of state. I guess they figure we will just pay the fine, instead of coming back for a court date. More of the discussion here:
http://www.nssracing.com/forums/show...vs-Drag-Racers
New way to increase state revenue (collect taxes).