---
title: "Toyota Corolla With Snowmobile on the Roof Proves Anything Can Be a Truck If You Want It to Be"
description: "Whether or not the cops approve is another story."
date: "2020-11-04"
modified: "2020-11-04"
authors:
  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/james-gilboy"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/37428/toyota-corolla-with-snowmobile-on-the-roof-proves-anything-can-be-a-truck-if-you-want-it-to-be"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Toyota News"
tags:
  - "compact"
  - "corolla"
  - "sedan"
  - "Toyota"
---

# Toyota Corolla With Snowmobile on the Roof Proves Anything Can Be a Truck If You Want It to Be

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*Truck* is not a type of vehicle—it's a state of mind. Philosophers define it as a faith in one's vehicle to carry anything that can be ratchet strapped to the roof, no matter how precariously. [Practitioners of this outlook](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/36400/overloading-your-geo-tracker-with-a-heavy-camper-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen>), though, aren't always looked on kindly by law enforcement, which last Sunday halted the enlightened driver of a Toyota Corolla transporting a snowmobile on their car's roof.

Wisconsin State Patrol spotted the overloaded Toyota on Highway 63 early Sunday afternoon, pulling it over around 1:20 p.m. according to [*Star Tribune*](<https://www.startribune.com/wisconsin-trooper-pulls-over-two-vehicles-at-once-a-minnesota-car-and-the-snowmobile-on-the-roof/572951892/>). Though the sedan bore Minnesota plates, the state trooper found local 23-year-old Matthew Schmit behind the wheel, Schmit having allegedly bought the car in spring but not yet transferred the title. The [Polaris](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/36816/polaris-wants-to-spark-an-electric-off-road-revolution-with-zero-motorcycles-partnership>) snowmobile, however, was a newer acquisition, with Schmit telling the state trooper he was hauling it to a friend's house to show it off.

https://twitter.com/\_/status/1323304949816659970

"I know it looks sketchy, but we had it strapped down and shook it," Schmit was quoted saying by a Wisconsin Department of Transportation spokesperson. "Up like in this kind of region, stuff like this gets seen all the time, but more like the back roads."

Schmit reportedly received a $10 citation for an unbuckled belt, but despite his vehicle's load coming in "over-width," he received only a warning. Though instructed to "just turn around and drive it home," Schmit reportedly handled his drive home as casually as he did the rest of the ordeal, stopping at [a restaurant](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/37058/singapore-airlines-parked-airbus-a380-restaurant-service-sells-out-in-30-minutes>) for a meal en route. Schmit's mindset of *Truck* seems to have liberated him of all earthly worries—perhaps his worldview is worth looking into in these trying times.

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## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/jamesgilboy>)