I moved to Utah about 45 days ago from upstate New York. However, I am not a New Yorker. I live in Draper and work in Midvale. Each morning I commute on the I-15 to work at a bank in Midvale.
I observe every morning the jacked-up pickup trucks charging through traffic as if there is another page or two in the driver's manual that pertains to them. They seem to have different speed laws and different vehicle modification laws. Their raised bumper heights, tires that stick beyond the wheel wells, lights front and rear that don't conform with other vehicles.
But most of all I think it's the driver's attitude concerning speed, which is that there is another set of speed regulations that applies to them.
I do not find an addendum for jacked-up pickup trucks in the Utah Drivers Manual with different speed regulations for them. It seems in my reading that we are all required to drive the same speed limits.
Michael Strang, Draper
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