Coming from trucking, weight limits are legal limits. That mindset carries over into scaling out my personal equipment. In states with split speed limits did you ever read the weight limits that go with those restricted speeds? Seen many an RV pulled over for thinking the sign did not apply to them. Ohio is 55 mph for vehicles over 4 ton empty weight. How many pickups / RV's are over 8,000#? My F350 is. So while the legal limit is 20,000# per axle or what you axle and tires are rated, experience says trying to explain the rules to the officer on the side of the road, is seldom productive or ends in my favor.
While I may have miss spoke and they might not be "legal limits" in my RV, in an age of sue happy people for my own piece of mind and safety I will operate as if. When the lawyers get tired of trucks and realize RV's are a lucrative market they will start here. That motor home with the tire issue that set 5,000 acres of Arizona on fire back in 2011 sure had a few legal issues. There are always legal ramifications for what we do.
Be safe...
