I was heavily involved in the passage of the improved lift law in '00-'01 so I have a pretty good idea of what will fly and what won't. A "make buggy's have different rules" law won't fly.
Reading through the entire thread, there is some really good advice here and I don't know if a new law is necessary, but a small amendment to an existing law is certainly possible.
I would really like to see what we could get ammended again to have laws more like CO, AZ, NV, ID, etc. I am sure that there must be some states that are stricter than ours, but I have yet to see them. I think this thread brings up a good point of needing the laws changed again, just to what degree though is the question. Adding a new law is probably needless, but for on-road rigs some changes would be nice. It used to be that you only had to have fender flares if your tires stuck out more than 2", now they cannot stick out at all. The only bad thing that I have ever seen from tires being 2" wider is that they get your truck dirty fast. Maybe I am missing something, like all of those windshields that we break, not the dump trucks.
I would like to see the tint laws be a bit more lenient too, like maybe 35% so it actually looks like you have tinted your windows, vs. the 43% (although you can only find 50%) that it is now.
I am ok with the mud flap law because I don't see that one getting changed (but 35% sounds good to me instead of 50%), but how did we lose the fender flare law when we won on some of the lift laws?
Going back to the beginning ideas of this thread, what can we do to get the laws better? Or is there anything? If the other states are so much more lenient, why can't we do the same?
As I understand it Colorado and Arizona (are there others?) have more open laws pertaining to modified rigs. Is there any sort of minimum safety inspection in those states? Or is the law set so that OHV can still be driven on the pavement?
Idaho seems to be pretty lenient too. And I don't know about Nevada on their lift laws, but their tint laws seem to be non-existent.