One thing perhaps everyone is overlooking is your registration. You certainly can get a ticket for being overloaded and it doesn't matter if you are driving a pick up or a tractor trailer. In BC when I worked there, the vehicle registration showed a gross vehicle weight. That weight cost the registered owner x amount of dollars. For example when I drove a 1983 F-250 6.9 regular cab I paid for 5490 kg. 5500 kg and up was for commercial vehicles only. Motor vehicle branch couldn't care less if the truck only had 8800 lbs (4,000 kg) factory GVW sticker or not. I was hauling a heavy camper at the time so I bought the 5490 kg (12,078 lb). If I had been stopped in the many commercial vehicle inspections and weighed (portable scales, etc) with my truck and camper and was over GVW of 4,000 kg I could be issued an overweight ticket. Been there, done that. I know where I live now, my vehicle registration barely covered the net weight let alone GVW. I had to bring it to their attention to at least show my truck's factory GVW on my registration. This was on my 91 F-250. Now with my 3500 Dodge dually, MVB recognizes this as a one ton and I can buy GVW to however high I want. Factory rating does not come into play. I would be asking your licencing dept at MVB about this. I know in BC lots of private trucks are stopped when loaded with top soil, building supples etc and are routinely ticketed. Trailer brakes are also another issue in BC. Lots of RV's are stopped every year to make sure brakes, breakaway switches, are working. So it is not only commeercial vehicles but all motor vehicles that get weighed in BC. I do not see that level of enforcement elsewhere.
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Yep, registered GVW. I am registered for 14,000 pounds. It seemed like a good number, and didn't cost much more than 10 or 12,000.
So, I don't care about the sticker, and I don't worry about an overweight ticket.
Good enough.
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Whiteline wrote: Something does add up here. Every state in the lower 48 is 80,000 lbs gross. 20 + 34 + 34 does not equal 80. Unless they have changed the law within the last ten years and I doubt it, 12000 lbs is still max weight allow for tractor's front axle.
The max on a single axle is 20,000lbs. The max on a single steer axle tire is 600lbs per inch. The max on all other tires is 550lbs per inch. Take a standard 11 inch wide truck tire on the steer axle and you get 6,600lbs x 2 tires on the axle = 13,200 which is what you can go on a steer axle with 11 inch rubber. Take a single drive axle and you get 11 x 550lbs x 4 = 24,200 but you can only go 20,000 as 20,000 is the maximum on any single axle.
Granted 34,000 + 34,000 + 13,200 = 81,200 but when you are only licensed for 80,000 you have to lighten up one axle. There are also bridge formulas when trucks are licensed for higher weights. For example up here with a three axle tractor and four axle trailer we can go 13,200-steer axle, 38,000-drive axle tandem, 12,100-trailer lifts axle and 45,000-trailer tri axle. This adds up to 108,300 but on the wheelbase bridge formula we are only allowed 104,500 so we have to lighten up on one or more axles. Many states in the lower 48 also have gross weights more than 80k.
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its about the same in my state (OK) when a overweight ticket is issued for private or commercial vehicles. Only here its the trucks axle {GAWRs) and tire caps that are used on a single vehicle when we are weighed. The trucks door tag GVWR or registered GVWR comes to play when a combined rig (truck + the trailer) is weighed. NHTSA does have max axle loads that some posters are talking about, but our LDTs come nowhere near those weights but do come under 10k or over 10k NHTSA/FMCSA 49 cfr motor vehicle regs. If anyone has a concern its very simple to check with their state DPS/DOT for their input regarding the vehicles certification tag. As a shift capt at my local troopers hq says we aren't concerned with RVs unless its obviously overloaded (bumper dragging) and swaying all over the road. Then it becomes a safety issue.
Jim
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JIMNLIN wrote: As a shift capt at my local troopers hq says we aren't concerned with RVs unless its obviously overloaded (bumper dragging) and swaying all over the road. Then it becomes a safety issue.
There ya go This is all the thread was suppose to be about - nothing to worry about as far as getting a ticket for a thousand over.
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This is all the thread was suppose to be about - nothing to worry about as far as getting a ticket for a thousand over.
