As an aside here, there were several incidents in our area involving vehicles with utility trailers on the way to the dump. The local sheriff,not the county I live in, decided to staion a deputy at the scales to watch the weights and inspect vehicles and write tickets if need be. There was a huge uproar and only warning tickets were written.
Over 60% of the trailers and20% of the pickups were in some kind of violation. Alot of it was safety issues. One in particular was a guy that was pulling one of those 4x8 utility trailers that you can buy anywhere and put together yourself and they have a 1500# limit and the tires are little more than utility tires with a 45 mph limit. He was pulling it behind an old car with one of those old uhaul bumper hitches,no chains,wrong ball size and about 3000# in the trailer. Oh and the driver was driving with a suspended license.
