Who has ever been weighed when RV towing?
There is lots of posts to do with weights and ratings etc. etc. Has anyone ever been stopped and weighed by enforcement authorities while towing an rv?
Forum Discussion
VintageRacer wrote:
In Ontario they regularly set up road-side checks on the highways to cottage country on long weekends and pull in just about anyone - they are looking for over weight, incorrect license, hitches set up wrong, too many passengers, seat belt law violations. Ontario people need a restricted Class A license to tow over a certain amount, and Class A and Super C motorhomes need a Class D or higher license for over 26K lbs in total combined vehicle weight - and DOT sets up at the border crossing in the spring to catch Snowbirders coming home towing their cars and over-loaded. So it is actually very common in Ontario. In Nova Scotia, where I live now, there is a weigh scale on the exit and entrance of the province where everything over 3000 Kg registered gross weight is supposed to stop and cross the scales. I've been pulled into weigh scales in New Brunswick where they flash a sign at you if you get picked to pull in, truck pulling a trailer. So I would say I've been weighed a bunch of times.
I will say that my impression is that they are looking for trailers over 10K lbs and no upgraded driver's license, vehicles over their licensed gross weight, combined weight over 26K (the metric equivalent, actually) because a lot of Class A's are under until they hook up the towed car, and air brake endorsement on Class A RV's. Probably 75% of the Ontario drivers I've casually asked did not have the correct driver's license to drive their big Class A pushers, or tow their 15K lb fifth wheels.
Brian
From a fellow Nova Scotian you are correct on the lack of upgraded driver's license. Took me several visits to RMV to get them to tell me I needed the endorsement 15 on my class 5 to haul over 10k trailers.
To the OP.....yes but only when towing commercially.
