Why doesn't the math work?
I have received a lot of education from this forum, but I am back with another question. I have learned that my TV payload is 10,000 lbs. and that the GCWR is 23,500 lbs. The TV with passengers and ...
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wilber1 wrote:
So, if a manufacture put a 6K front axle and a 7K drive axle on a half ton, it would be good for 13k regardless of the rest of the truck's structure. That makes no sense. The reason manufacturers placard a GVWR for the whole truck is because it is not based solely on axle capacity.
They also place front and rear GAWR on the placard which are enforceable. In many states the GVWR is a licensing(tonnage) issue not a weight issue. Washington State takes 1.5 times the tare weight and rounds up to the next even K. So both my 2001.5 (8800 GVWR) and my 2015 (11,700 GVWR) were/are licensed to 12K. I could have paid a little more and licensed at 14K.
If the weight police and arm chair attorneys here were correct, then every hotshot driver would now have been sued out of business by now.
Weigh stations weigh rigs against their repeated version of the federal bridge weight rules, which no normal pickup 5th wheel will exceed. Some two axle motor homes get over the dual wheel single axle rule of 20K on the rear axle.
We have heard for many years the BC Canada stories of people being sidelined. Most I believe were dragging their behind down the road to alert a Mountie. Jimnlin has hauled commercial for many years and pointed out that some officers may be applying rules that do not exist in their code.
Chris
