It may be myth, but I've read of folks who beat the issue of being engaged in commerce by producing a letter from the IRS. Seems they were including their losses from their racing/pulling enterprise for so long without ever showing a profit that IRS disallowed their deductions and said that their activities were a hobby, meaning it was all personal, household activity and not an act of commerce. Anything they received by way of prizes was not reportable as income and no further deductions were allowed. That one letter got a whole stack of tickets thrown out and the sstate got stuck with the towing and storage charges for the impounded trailer.
Great story. UNfortunately, such tickets are for civil offenses and innocent until proven guilty doesn't apply as it does in criminal cases. The officer that pulls you over is free to write al the tickets he wants. If any of them are based on you being in commercial operation, it's up to you to prove that you are not.
The really sad part is that a lot of police/sheriff/DOT departments hire lawyers to come in and school their officers on some pretty questionable definitions of what constitutes compensation and commercial operation. Something as trivial as winning a third-place yellow ribbon at a tractor show, even with no monetary prize attached, they will argue, is compensation, and subjects you to all the requirements for commercial operation. They'll go so far as to say that if the show awarded only ribbons or a trophy to the best entries and you didn't win a thing, it is still commercial because you could have won.
Pretty sad. 99% of it has nothing to do with highway safety and everything to do with revenue.
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