troubledwaters wrote:
If your in an accident and someone decides to sue you, whether you were towing 10,000 lbs or 12,000 lbs is never going to come up in the discussion. It's not realistic to try and prove to a jury (who knows nothing about towing, weights, or why it matters) how much the rear axle of the truck weighed at the scene of the accident 3 years ago, rather then you simply failed to stop in time.
My attorney would use that info to convince the jury you overloaded on purpose just to injure someone for enjoyment. There are some pretty good attorneys out there makeing a boat load of cash by using every tidbit of info that can remotely be added to the story of how negligent the defendent was. Civil suits are to the point the attorneys should have to belong to the Actors Guild as well as the Bar. I tell my Son this all the time as he is an Attorney.
