This is so crazy...

F-150 Owners Sued for Parking in Their Own Driveway! - Ford Trucks

What do you think?

 

Isn't a pickup able to be considered a "passenger vehicle"? I've had passengers in mine.

 

When you buy a home in a restricted neighborhood, you agree to live by the rules..... even if they suck.

 

I would think a homeowner's driveway is private property, but I guess not in the People's Socialist Republic of New York (I grew up in NY, but now consider myself rehabilitated.). As long as the truck doesn't have commercial plates, I'd tell the association to go pound sand.

 

I remember years ago when I had a Chevy Blazer (the real one), that with the removable rear roof on, it could be register either as a passenger car or a commercial vehicle (pickup truck). I wonder if here, in New York, that if you put a cap on your truck that it could be registered as a passenger car? That would be great if you could get it registered like that just to mess with those jerks!

 

I would read the HOA's carefully to see if they are inclusive or exclusive. i.e., state you can do everything except..., or the following is allowed... Then I would park on the lawn!

Every rule has ambiguity. Curiosity killed the cat, but creativity really pisses off HOA boards.

 

Need to build a garage that the truck will fit in.

 

Cape Coral(aka cape crazy, aka cape coma ect...) Florida HAD the same stupid law up till about 18-20 years ago.

Many many people finally got tired of the City's pickup truck law and went city console cleaning next election. With new people in office they rewrote the "pickup" law.

But still I got a ticket for flowers in my yard..... had a few run ins with code "enfarcument" with other stupid useless laws.... I sold out and moved out of there.....

 

It's probably one of those HOA rules they rarely enforce, until someone (depending who they are..)complains. There's always one Barney Fife around.
Honestly, I see HOA's as one more layer of government. And who wants more of that?
I live in the upper mid west and around here a 4 door, 4 WD, F-150 parked in a driveway is practically a status symbol!

 

I would buy the biggest, baddest, ugliest, lifted up, redneck, mud-covered SUV (think: Bronco, Excursion, etc) and park it in the driveway out of spite. Hey, it's not a commercial vehicle, it's an SUV, just like the next door neighbor's Toyota Rav4! Whaddya gonna do about that, homeowner's association?

 

That is the point of the article, they sue you.....

 

How can they sue you for having an SUV in the driveway? Like I said, it's no different than having a Honda CR-V in the driveway. An SUV is not a "commercial vehicle." I bet there's nothing in the rules that says you can't have an SUV. So, what would they sue you for?

 

ok this is the most bogus law ive ever heard of , I own a 2011 XLT super crew 4X4 and I can sit 6 and I should be able to class it as a family vehicle as that's its purpose + going on graded roads that 4X4 are only allowed, and if the government told me I couldn't park in my own driveway id totally . I think as a home owner you have the right to drive what you want and park it in your own fricken driveway.
FORD F150 FTW

 

Why would you live in a place where your neighbors get to dictate what you are allowed and not allowed to do to the house that YOU are paying for....... AND they get to tell you what you can and cannot drive??? How is that legal? Why do people allow this? Who thought that this would be a good idea?? Talk about control issues.

 

That's why I bought my land in the country with no HOA. It has restrictions, but none of that HOA crap to deal with.