Finally got weights from CAT scale

drfife wrote:


This gets the gold star for fear mongering.

If you killed someone and were not overweight, you'd not feel bad?

Let me answer that in my capacity as a firearms instructor.

I teach people that a Concealed Firearm Permit is there for when they have done all that they can to avoid trouble, and trouble comes and finds them anyway.

I teach de-escalation and disengagement as part of my classes. I teach about situational awareness and knowing when NOT to be somewhere. It is literally the last resort.

As long as these things are practiced, if trouble still comes to find me, I would sleep perfectly well knowing that someone else made a series of bad decisions and took actions which necessitated me stopping them.

Now, let's apply the same principles to being on the road.

If I know that I did all that I could to avoid an incident, and I was legal in all respects, and someone else created an unsafe situation that I could not avoid which resulted in their injury or death, then I would feel a lot better about that than if I knew that I disregarded warnings and ratings and otherwise might - and I emphasize MIGHT - have been able to avoid injuring or killing someone else.

I would not cherish the thought that "if I only I had done X or not exceeded Y, maybe I could have avoided it". Doubt and questioning may be there anyway, but knowingly exceeding ratings would certainly factor in to aggravate those doubts.

There would also be the nagging fear that in a court action, if anyone figured it out, that it could very well be used as a point to make me look like someone taking less than due caution. I know one lawyer that said he would certainly look for such if he were ever presented such a case. If I know that there is nothing to discover there, I'd also sleep better.

ETA - I just found out about a case that may well be applicable to this situation. The door sticker weights were a factor. I'm waiting for more info to verify.