I;ve personally been pulled over by way more CVEO's ie the real weight cops in a van or "HAVING" to go over to the weigh scales dues to my "real" gvw/gcw of the combo. I personally am more worried about what and how they can stop me than what will happen in a civil court.
Also as noted by rafgo, one can be UNDER ratings and more more of a menace than over ratings! Yeah, been there done that too with a trailer and NO hitch wt, trailer was 8K lbs, dang near took me off the road with a truck tow rig that weighs 12K lbs!
One can argue the variances of what they worry about being law per say. BUT, if you want the real ones from an LEO/CVEO stand point, look up your states laws as I liked earlier to the ones in Wa st, ie RCW46.xxxxx Then you can find the ones you can be cited for. In this state, being over a manufacture rating is NOT ILLEGAL! being over an axel per the road bed engineer design specs, will get you fined. It will NOT, nor is the federal law portion designed to put you in jail. Only for you to pay for the damage you are doing to the road driving over it. THIS is the what the weight law enforcement pays for. There are OTHER laws that will get unsafe rigs off the road!
Marty
