Anyone had their rig weighed by authorities in these areas?

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Never weighed. But Florida does occasionally put out VMS signage at weigh stations that direct all rental trucks, pickup trucks, and RVs to weigh stations for inspection. In my case, they dipped my fuel tank to check for dyed diesel.

Im not sure what the point is here. The troopers have the authority to check your weights. I agree its not likely to happen,. However common sense has told me to never say never. None of us can 100% guarantee that you cannot and will not be stopped if a LEO officer state or local wants to check your weights

First of all, as has already been stated Troopers could care less about RV's. They are checking commercial truck traffic for overweight and safety violations.

Secondly, if they would investigate you for being overweight (which I don't think they ever would), the first thing they would check would be what weight your actual registration allowed, and each state is probably different.

It would have to be some type of fatal crash before an attempt to weigh an RV would be anything included in an investigation by a Trooper. And the only way the DOT or Commercial Truck Enforcement folks would be involved would be if a commercial vehicle was somehow involved.

But really all RVers should weigh their rigs, know their limits, and try to stay at, or below them for everyone's safety.

GaryInMaine wrote:

john&bet wrote:
I have driven thru by car or RV most of those states(lived in one for 9 years) since '78 and have never seen an RV accident.

I knew a guy who picked up his brand new FW in Michigan drove 16 miles from the dealer and was rear ended by a propane tanker. Shut down I76 for over an hour. His camper was never weighted. .... waite, that guy was me :E

Wow. Glad you weren't hurt. We have been very, very lucky in our travels since '68 and have seen very few accidents and have never been involved in one while on the road. The last one I saw was 5 years ago in the south bound lanes of I-65 south of US-50. I did not see it happen, but there was an F-250/350 with a 30++ foot TT sitting up on the guard rail jackknifed with the trucks rear up in the air held up by the WD hitch as it was still hooked up. No emergency services there yet.

There was a fatal accident last year where an RV ran over and killed a State Trooper on a freeway. It was a large class A towing a large cargo type trailer. Now although I have not read the report, I'd be willing to bet a very large sum of money that one of the things the investigation team did was weigh that RV and trailer as well as inspect everything from the brake pads to the clearance lights.

john&bet wrote:
I have driven thru by car or RV most of those states(lived in one for 9 years) since '78 and have never seen an RV accident.

I knew a guy who picked up his brand new FW in Michigan drove 16 miles from the dealer and was rear ended by a propane tanker. Shut down I76 for over an hour. His camper was never weighted. .... waite, that guy was me :E

DOT would not be involved in a non commercial event.

Not by authorities - BUT a few years ago my "new" truck developed a problem and we were towed to the nearest truck repair place (Ft. Collins CO). The truck was under warranty so the repair facility called before they would start repair. The Warranty folks insisted our fifth wheel must be overweight and before they would authorize repair we had to have the fiver weighed and show the repair facility the weight certificate who relayed that info to the warranty folks!! We were OK and repairs were done under the warranty.

If you pass a weigh station on the highway just keep going. Those are for commercial trucks not for RVs.