Towing wreck - overloaded hitch

proxim2020 wrote:

Turtle n Peeps wrote:

I could go into court and say "he was almost over the legal limit and that is why he wrecked" and it would have as much weight as being over weight on the door sticker.

That didn't make any sense. What legal limit are you talking about?

Some people on here think the door sticker is a legal limit. It's not. It's just a recommendation from the manufacture and a guide line for warrantee purposes only. If the manufacture catches you towing a 35 foot 10,000 TT with your 1978 Toyota Hilux and you blow the clutch out of it Toyota is going to say, too bad, you went over the door sticker, no warrantee for you.

If the po-po catches you over the weight of your door sticker there is not one thing they can do about it as long as you up to that weight on your tag and are not over the axel ratings of the truck.

The bottom line of the bottom line is this:

Cross the line in my state and kill someone while towing a 15,000 lb trailer with your 1/2 ton pickup and you're going to do a big boys time out.

BUT at the same time

Tow a pop up with a Peterbuilt and cross over that same line in my state and kill someone you're also going to the big boys time out.

Why? Because they don't need to prove anything about weight as some would have you believe. They have a law called manslaughter and they will use it.

In fact, that happened in my county not too long ago. A cop crossed the line while on a call and hit a car head on and killed a young woman. He gets to go in front of a man with black robes and 12 of his peers soon. The charge? Manslaughter. The DA is going to say that the cop was going too fast for the conditions. Pretty easy case to prove in my mind. Why? He crossed the center line and killed someone so he obviously was going too fast for the conditions and his driving ability.