@Polygeekery said:
Here we have federal laws, and some states have stricter laws in addendum to those. Which gives you the interesting side effect of having a legal load until you cross a state border.
I am looking at you Ohio...
From nearly the dawn of time, an old colleague relayed this story:
The US Navy at the time had some ready-to-deploy crane ships for near-shore logistics. The plan was that they would lease the cranes when needed.
So, one day it hits the fan, and the decision is made to deploy logistics ships from the ready reserve including one of the crane ships. Unfortunately, it's Friday afternoon, and there's one poor guy left "minding the store"...
He digs around, finds the appropriate documentation and calls up the leasing folks, and they're on board they know what to send and to where. When? ASAP. Can do.
Crane-people: Who's paying?
USN-guy: What?
Crane-people: Who's paying?
USN-guy: It's Friday afternoon!! Everybody's gone home! I don't have the authority to pay for things!
Crane-people: Somebody's got to pay...
USN-guy: ...I have my Visa-card...?
So six huge boom cranes show up at the gates to Norfolk's naval base, oh-dawn-thirty on Monday, "Sorry we took so long. We weren't allowed to move them on Sunday. Blue laws, you know."
That's service.