On my way to work this morning on route 47 in Illinois, I passed a road block set up by the state police. They had a portable scale set up and where stopping the north bound trucks and weighing them. Do they stop RVs and weigh them?
They do in Kalifornia - especially on the roads leading to Glamis in Southern Kalifornia. Overweight without the right license (Non-Commerical Class-A IIRC...) you get a ticket, and park the rig until someone with the right license comes to drive it away.
SAR Tracker wrote: They do in Kalifornia - especially on the roads leading to Glamis in Southern Kalifornia. Overweight without the right license (Non-Commerical Class-A IIRC...) you get a ticket, and park the rig until someone with the right license comes to drive it away.
Unlikely. The non-commercial class A is for TTs with GVWRs over 10,000 and 5ers over 15,000 GVWR. No need to weigh them, the GVWR is posted on the VIN plate.
SAR Tracker wrote: They do in Kalifornia - especially on the roads leading to Glamis in Southern Kalifornia. Overweight without the right license (Non-Commerical Class-A IIRC...) you get a ticket, and park the rig until someone with the right license comes to drive it away.
SAR Tracker wrote: They do in Kalifornia - especially on the roads leading to Glamis in Southern Kalifornia. Overweight without the right license (Non-Commerical Class-A IIRC...) you get a ticket, and park the rig until someone with the right license comes to drive it away.
You trying to make fun of California?
It's about time someone did, not that Kalifornia is joke..... Gunpilot77, they don't weight them, but they are starting to check for proper license at these locations.
SAR Tracker wrote: They do in Kalifornia - especially on the roads leading to Glamis in Southern Kalifornia. Overweight without the right license (Non-Commerical Class-A IIRC...) you get a ticket, and park the rig until someone with the right license comes to drive it away.
Unlikely. The non-commercial class A is for TTs with GVWRs over 10,000 and 5ers over 15,000 GVWR. No need to weigh them, the GVWR is posted on the VIN plate.
Likely.
"Glamis" is the dunes area close to the MX border. Any/everybody going there has lots of sand "toys" of all sorts loaded in their toyhaulers.
Could easily see why that would be a "weigh-in" spot for the CHP.
(overloaded).
It's just like the roads from So. CA to/from the CO River - Ski boats in tow. CHP will go out of their way to enforce 55mph speed limit - and watch for the young-uns who have been imbibing at the river and then driving, and/or open container, etc.
BTW - how "likely" are "unlikely" things with/for the CHP?
Chippie in the San Berdo Mtns bought his own radar gun.
Also, the slightest "drift" over the double yellow up there will bring a "greetings".
But - if you play by the rules - you don't have a problem!
California does pull over larger fifth wheels and travel trailers and specifically look to see if the drivers are in compliance with the 15,000 pound special endorsement for fifth wheels and something like 10,000 pounds for travel trailers.
Yes they do measure overloaded vehicles in California and Oregon too. I heard of one rather large fifth wheel being towed by a F-350 dually as a full timer rig. The highway patrol ordered the owner to drive to the nearest commercial scale, and when it was discovered the trailer was really overloading this truck, the trailer was impounded until a truck of sufficient size came to tow it away. This was reported in Escapees magazine a few years ago.
While rare, the highway patrol can check the weight of a private coach. Near Glamis they probably are picking up enough violators to make it worth their time. This includes drunks, those without the proper endorsements, and those with drugs on board. Some are also dangerously over their GVWR and GCVWR, and the owners have no clue about that.
We are lucky to get these dangerous vehicles off the road.
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