Towing Capability
Ok, wife has me doubting myself now, so here is the question. I have a 2013 F250 6.7L diesel FX4 and thinking about getting a 5th wheel. The one we are looking at is a Bay Hill 295 and dry weight i...
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SLE wrote:
FYI, my truck has an 8,800lb GVWR on the door yet the local DMV has it registered for 11,200lbs and they did this with out me saying a word or requesting it.
My state Washington takes 1.5 times the tare weight of the pickup and arounds up to the next higher even thousand. So this state licensed and taxes my 2500 with GVWR sticker of 8800 at 12,000. No where in the state code does it say anything about a factory GVWR being a limit on a private vehicle. If I was hauling commercial with it and required to stop at weigh stations then I would get an over weight ticket for 12001 lbs. Also the truck would have to display a signage of "Gross Weight 12,000". The ticket would be for no paying enough tonage. I could ask them to license is at 14000 pounds and they would do that, charging me more.
Like I say, this site and other RV sites just do not understand weight laws. The federal bridge weight laws are based on weight per axle, number of tires on the axle, spacing of the axle etc. No pickup is going to be over those, as they are for much larger trucks. States enforce these bridge weight laws and Canada is in sync with them.
Chris
