Over Weight?

wandering1 wrote:

lotus_eater wrote:
Just curious as to how many of you regularly tow your 5’er over GCVWR? I have a 5’er that’s a bit over my rigs GCVWR but the truck still pulls and stops it easily. I’ve been pulling it all over for a couple of years now without a problem, but I just had a guy say that if I get stopped I could get in to some serious trouble and it’s freaked me out a bit. I’ve actually been stopped a couple of times before but the officers never mentioned the weight.

Should I be worried and get another truck or 5’er that is “legal”? What have you guys found? Do the cops usually bother about a few hundred pounds over and I've just been very lucky so far?

Thanks for your help,

LE

You are legally responsible for having an adequate tow vehicle. One RVer had a wreck in Asheville on I 40 a couple of years ago and killed his daughter and maimed his son and ended up with felony charges filed against him for not having an adequate tow vehicle and causing the death of his daughter. Probably having a great time in prison.

In a case where the =empty= weight of a trailer would put the TV over limit, that's pretty easy to figure out, which is the only real way I could see that they could charge this. That, or hard evidence (pictures, weigh tickets, etc.) that showed that just having the trailer hitched was dangerous. Again, after a wreck, it's pretty hard to figure out the weight of the trailer from the wreckage. Not saying this didn't happen, but it would be interesting to know the details.

Lyle