Madhatter1
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Is that why my wife calls me Hot Shot?!?!
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dreeder
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agesilaus wrote:Might be hard to do in Florida since we have real weight police driving the highways. I see them stopping trucks all the time with their portable scales.
Rather or not a commercial motor vehicle is over its GCWR or GVWR isn't the weight police's primary concern, they are concerned with the maximum allowable weight on the roadway itself, particulary the allowable weight on each axle that is on the roadway. If they are over any of these weights, the driver gets to off load some merchandise to get under the maximum allowable weight or shift its load around to take weight off a particular axle simply to prevent road damage.
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chadsalt
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Does anyone else want to bet that fellow (and thousand others) who make their living hauling loads like that 24/7/365 did NOT check in with rv.net as to what is "safe"??????
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The first car is approx. 3k lbs. the explorer is roughly 5k and i guess the truck is just over 6k. Figure he has at least 3k on the hitch maybe more like 4k. Maybe overweight, but i wasnt there when he weighed it.
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Terryallan wrote:It's called a "Hot Shot", and it's legal in every way. A Hot Shot, Because when it's a small load, and it has to be there fast. You put it on a Hot Shot. Exactly. The thorn in the weight police's side. Totally legal
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Madhatter1 wrote:Is that why my wife calls me Hot Shot?!?!
Now that right there is funny!
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45Ricochet
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dreeder wrote:agesilaus wrote:Might be hard to do in Florida since we have real weight police driving the highways. I see them stopping trucks all the time with their portable scales.
Rather or not a commercial motor vehicle is over its GCWR or GVWR isn't the weight police's primary concern, they are concerned with the maximum allowable weight on the roadway itself, particulary the allowable weight on each axle that is on the roadway. If they are over any of these weights, the driver gets to off load some merchandise to get under the maximum allowable weight or shift its load around to take weight off a particular axle simply to prevent road damage.
Some states if not all require your DOT numbers posted on the side and you will need to exit onto scales just like the big rigs. Many states have a pay per GVW whereas your tags need to reflect the increased weight. Like a famous person once preached to me "you can tow a 15k lb RV with a Yugo " and still be legal, in some states anyway 
This guy should be fine with 5 axles and 12 tires , as far as weight and law enforcement.
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dodge guy wrote:The first car is approx. 3k lbs. the explorer is roughly 5k and i guess the truck is just over 6k. Figure he has at least 3k on the hitch maybe more like 4k. Maybe overweight, but i wasnt there when he weighed it.
And the trailer axles can carry 21k. So what's the problem. Look at my sig pic. Thats 13,500 on the trailer... perfectly legal and I only have a SRW.
Oh, yeah and the Dodge with the car hauler is a commercial vehicle. Must follow all applicable rules and regs. Logbook, USDOT #, stop at scales etc.
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dreeder
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rick83864 wrote:dreeder wrote:agesilaus wrote:Might be hard to do in Florida since we have real weight police driving the highways. I see them stopping trucks all the time with their portable scales.
Rather or not a commercial motor vehicle is over its GCWR or GVWR isn't the weight police's primary concern, they are concerned with the maximum allowable weight on the roadway itself, particulary the allowable weight on each axle that is on the roadway. If they are over any of these weights, the driver gets to off load some merchandise to get under the maximum allowable weight or shift its load around to take weight off a particular axle simply to prevent road damage.
Some states if not all require your DOT numbers posted on the side and you will need to exit onto scales just like the big rigs. Many states have a pay per GVW whereas your tags need to reflect the increased weight. Like a famous person once preached to me "you can tow a 15k lb RV with a Yugo " and still be legal, in some states anyway
This guy should be fine with 5 axles and 12 tires , as far as weight and law enforcement.
I agree, these loads run up and down the interstate all day long in Colorado, no problem. I always thought it might be a good post retirement gig...
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Terryallan
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dodge guy wrote:The first car is approx. 3k lbs. the explorer is roughly 5k and i guess the truck is just over 6k. Figure he has at least 3k on the hitch maybe more like 4k. Maybe overweight, but i wasnt there when he weighed it.
You weren't there. But the DOT was, and they said he was legal. and they will be there the next time as well. He'll be legal then too. Thousands of people make their living with these vehicles. If it was illegal. they could not do it.
Comercial trucks are actually allowed 15,000 lbs per single axle, and 34500 lbs per tandem axle, Not sure about triple axles, But I bet it's more. That's one of the reasons RVs are not required to stop in weightstations. They know we will never load our rigs heavy enough to be over the DOT weight laws.
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