Front dirt bike hitch for a semi?

2) Legality is questionable, at best you'd be legal and fall into the same exemption as city buses, at worst you're on a scale with a bike that you have nowhere to store.

3) Do you plan to take it off every morning and every night for your pre/post trip inspection? Also gotta take it off everytime you have a DOT inspection and certain shippers/recievers (looking at you Boeing) where you may be expected to open your hood for inspection?

All in all i'd recommend against it, it's a better idea to look into some kind of catwalk setup for it, which is actually already perfectly legal and normalized. Having an Ebike behind your cab is actually pretty handy nowadays.

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Bogey01@reddit

You guys are doing pre trips? /s

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Various-Blood-3902@reddit

Why does Boeing make you open your hood?

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FWD_to_twin_turbo@reddit

Security checkpoint to enter their facility. A few places we go to have truck security checkpoints where they look under your hood, truck and trailer.

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Various-Blood-3902@reddit

Where else other than Boeing?

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december151791@reddit

Security at a tire factory in Des Moines looked under my truck with a mirror and inside my cab (from the outside). Didn't look under the hood though.

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jjsprat38@reddit

We haul into gold mines, checked thoroughly in and out of

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FWD_to_twin_turbo@reddit

Military outposts, any facility under Marsec 2, Federal buildings, certain research centers, etc.

Raytheon, a certain Texas instruments facility and Encore Wire used to do it but they both have Xrays now.

Never been to a high security facility?

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PM_ME_UR_PRETTYBRA@reddit

The navy base I worked at inspected each and every commercial vehicle that came onboard, each and every time.

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Commercial-Prompt-84@reddit

To make sure you’re not smuggling any 747’s when you enter and exit

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W1D0WM4K3R@reddit

Diesel forbid 😂

You shall ride eternal, shiny and chrome!

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VivaceConBrio@reddit

Probably wouldn't advise tempting fate and going through an MP checkpoint to get on base or in any military secured area with that setup, especially if it's not a regular delivery.

I've never had issues with MPs and they're usually pretty chill. Short of one of em having a bad day, I doubt they would care. But their orders and security policies can (and do) change at the drop of a hat when it comes to commercial trucks. So you could end up being turned away and stuck finding a place to unload/park it, then come back and go through screening all over again.

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ARockWithAGlock@reddit

I’ve seen several guys with dual sports on racks parallel with the back of their cabs. If memory serves me correctly they were all on longer wheelbase trucks with more room between cab and trailer.

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leadpoem@reddit

A while back, I saw a guy with a custom lift putting his Harley behind his cab, but he was clearly an owner-operator and had money to burn.

Personally, I would look into the Suron Light Bee X or similar. I'm pretty sure they're coming with VINs now, so they can just be registered as motorcycles.

They do about 45 and have 40-ish miles to a battery.

I think total weight is about 100 lb, give or take. If you take your battery out first, there'd be no reason why you couldn't get it behind the cab and strap it in. You might need a ramp, or if you can he-man it up, that would work too.

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xoutlawtrucker@reddit

I really want to get a electric scooter, but where would I leave it/park it when I got where I was going? Like WalMart or a vape store.

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greedybanker3@reddit

definitely possible if you have a hitch mount. i dont know the liability or legality of putting it on a cmv. you can do it on a pov. plenty do. but thats different rules. id say mounting it on the catwalk somewhere is better though. i have to assume that if we havent seen others do it then there is a reason for that.

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Environmental-Pear40@reddit

I have seen it for bicycles but not a dirt bike. Pretty sure its something that's custom made.