Class A with tag axle - beware of $1000. fine in AZ!

NeverHome2 wrote:
I don't know much about this new law but having owned and operated class 8 trucks in all 48 states, I know that the Federal DOT exempts privately owned Recreational Vehicles from USDOT regulation. You don't stop at scales, DOT stops, or have to comply with Motor Carrier reporting and enforcement. You also are exempt from needing to comply with the International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA). The amount of tax levied is set by each State but due to the above exemptions, RV's have fallen into the same tax group as passenger cars. If AZ. is allowed to challenge this exemption then all the other states will to. This law needs to be challenged and defeated in court.

What you are citing here has nothing to do with the State of Arizona fuel tax issue.

Safe travels.

all you need is ONE of the conditions......26k lbs or more than 2 axels, i too would be subject to the fine/tax (assuming my DECLARED weight was over 26k) :B

a declared gross vehicle weight of more than 26,000 pounds or having more than two axles

Rollnhome wrote:
Francesca, the citations are in the first sentence of my post. And actually the topic of this thread is about MH with Tag Axles not trucks having more than two axles.

Isn't a tag axle a third axle? If so, mohos that have them are subject to the higher tax. At least according to the way I read the Statute, both the part you quoted and the part I quoted.

Francesca, the citations are in the first sentence of my post. And actually the topic of this thread is about MH with Tag Axles not trucks having more than two axles.

Double post. Sorry

dodge guy wrote:

Rollnhome wrote:
Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS) 28-5708 imposes the use fuel tax on light class motor vehicles as defined under ARS 28-5701 and on exempt vehicles pursuant to ARS 28-5432.

“Light Class Motor Vehicles” are defined as any motor vehicles using use fuel (diesel) on the highways of this state except for use class vehicles. Use class vehicles include a road tractor, a truck tractor, a truck, having a declared gross vehicle weight of more than 26,000 pounds or having more than two axles or a passenger carrying motor vehicle designed to seat more than 20 occupants."

This is copied from the state law. I read it as two axle MH over 26K are classified as Light Class Motor Vehicles.

Yep! and therefore are not required to pay the higher tax!

Dunno where exactly the above is copied from, but a more appropriate reference is the definition of "use class vehicle", which clearly reads:

AZ 28-5601 wrote:

37. "Use class motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle that uses use fuel on a highway in this state and that is a road tractor, truck tractor, truck or passenger carrying vehicle having a declared gross vehicle weight of more than twenty-six thousand pounds or having more than two axles.

Note:
"Use fuel" is diesel. And I'd note that BOTH do refer to the more-than-two axle thing.

Copied directly from the Statute as published by the Az. Legislature at this link

Rollnhome wrote:
Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS) 28-5708 imposes the use fuel tax on light class motor vehicles as defined under ARS 28-5701 and on exempt vehicles pursuant to ARS 28-5432.

“Light Class Motor Vehicles” are defined as any motor vehicles using use fuel (diesel) on the highways of this state except for use class vehicles. Use class vehicles include a road tractor, a truck tractor, a truck, having a declared gross vehicle weight of more than 26,000 pounds or having more than two axles or a passenger carrying motor vehicle designed to seat more than 20 occupants."

This is copied from the state law. I read it as two axle MH over 26K are classified as Light Class Motor Vehicles.

Yep! and therefore are not required to pay the higher tax!

Arizona Revised Statutes (ARS) 28-5708 imposes the use fuel tax on light class motor vehicles as defined under ARS 28-5701 and on exempt vehicles pursuant to ARS 28-5432.

“Light Class Motor Vehicles” are defined as any motor vehicles using use fuel (diesel) on the highways of this state except for use class vehicles. Use class vehicles include a road tractor, a truck tractor, a truck, having a declared gross vehicle weight of more than 26,000 pounds or having more than two axles or a passenger carrying motor vehicle designed to seat more than 20 occupants."

This is copied from the state law. I read it as two axle MH over 26K are classified as Light Class Motor Vehicles.

NeverHome2 wrote:
If AZ. is allowed to challenge this exemption then all the other states will to. This law needs to be challenged and defeated in court.

Arizona State gas taxes have nothing whatever to do with the "exemption/law" you cite. Nor do the gas taxes of any other State.

The pumps do have tags on them stating the extra tax if over so much weight. I have seen it at Bullhead, Az.