NMace wrote:
If you are not making this up, please give us a citation, newspaper, blog, anything at all. I have been tracking Lexas/Nexas for years, and have yet to find a recorded case of a recreational vehicle (as opposed to a commercial vehicle) being cited, charged, or even sued for being overweight in an accident. No record of insurance being denied. None of the dire consequences you all claim.
Please just give me a single documented account, not your believe, bot what happened to a friend of a friend's second cousin by marriage.
I know it seems logical to you, and even it should happen, but I have yet to see proof. Sorry to offend. But we need to deal in fact.
I've been called a liar about this before, which is why I only mention it in passing any more.
I have been retired 12 years and this was approx 3 years before that. I do not have any paperwork and I'm not sure you would ever find the specifics of a case regarding overloading.
Situation was that there were two separate incidents of pickup trucks (not RVs and not towing) involved in accidents. They were both overloaded.
One was 1500# over GVWR, and was "At fault" in a fatal. He was charged with "criminal negligence causing death" apparently due to the overload condition.
So being overloaded would never appear on any court docket, it was the basis for the negligence charge.
My involvement was that I provided the Company lawyers with vehicle specific weight capacity data to support the overload condition.
They went to court with the position that the vehicles in question were neither tested nor certified to perform safely at the weights involved. The guy involved in the fatal went to jail.
Was it simply the overload condition? I doubt it, but that was certainly a contributing factor.
That's it. You can believe me or not. I don't care any more.
