Who has ever been weighed when RV towing?

There is a place in WV where the truckers have to pull off the highway to weigh. I was once pulled over right after the exit and the trooper told me my bus was commercial no matter what my registration said. He made me follow him back to the scales where a different trooper told him I was not commercial after I weighed.

If my rig was not made from a bus than I would of never been pulled over.

Got pulled over on this site by the weight police once. Does that count?

"Never say Never", and though I've "NEVER" been pulled over, nor do I expect to be, I have all my weight papers for the truck, empty and loaded with my 5er just in case, and I'm well within the limits of my trucks GVWR as well as GCWR with a lot of room to spare, not even coming close to cutting into reserves of my RAWR of 9750#. To some of us that means something, to others, it means nothing...Everyone is different as to how they look at weight ratings. Some, not many, but some like me, feel that if one stays within certain manufacturers recommended GVWR's and GCWR's, maybe it'll be safer, (not saying it will be, just talking "train of thought), and may feel like their tow vehicle might last a little longer because we might not be abusing the truck's suspension or tranny.

Again, just answering why some seem to be concerned about weight more than others....Don't really see anything wrong with those of us who choose to try to stay within the trucks recommended GVWR's and GCWR's...we are smart enough to know that you can forget GVWR and go straight to the RAWR, and smart enough to know that the trucks recommended ratings all have a "buffer" built into them, which makes us feel even better about the way we're treating our tow vehicle and feel it might be a little safer, (at least, in OUR eyes).

I think the only one's that really need to "worry" about the TT's and 5er's and weights, are the people who are actually matching what they are towing, with what they are towing it with...

Weight enforcement is for commercial traffic...trust me, no one is worried about travel trailers and the like.

The chances of an rv'r getting pulled over at this time is none in slim!

LEO's enforce the designed max road bed limit that a vehicle can weigh. That is 20K per axel and 34K per tandem generally speaking. There are a few other limits here and there, but NONE of use as RV'rs are over those limits. The axel limits in some jurisdictions get reduced to 500 lbs per inch width of tire.

So, do some math. Most of us have single wheels all around. 4 typically 10" tires on the tow rig add up to 5000 per tire, 10K per axel, total of 20K lbs. How many of you are ANYWHERE near these wts? Our trailers have 8-9" tires times 4. 8" is 4000 lbs per total of 16K per tandem. How many of you are near this limit?

Do you really think an LEO that is out on the road looking for overweight rigs damaging the road beds are going to find a typical pickup rv trailer over weight per the road bed design?

NOW, some of the type A and larger type C motor homes have issues. BUT, they are not checked, so not an issue. One of the moderators has a rig with 10" tires on his front, or a total in wa st of 12K, duallies get 600 lbs per inch width of tire here. He has 15-16K last I checked on the FA! 4000 lbs over wt per the wt laws and what he can have on his tires in this state. He will never get pulled over. He could fix his problem by putting on 14" width tires with the appropriate extra rim width, then he would be legal.

Some larger MH's with 25K rear duals, run down the road at 23-24K lbs. If they get weighed, they will usually get 20K max, as most have at least 4 10" wide tires. But they are overwt per the LEO's if pulled over by 3-4K lbs!

Does it do any good from a $$$$ standpoint to have an officer weighing rv'rs? not really. As long as you have a paid for registration greater than what you are running down the road at, you are legal, and do not need to worry about the wt police/leo on the side of the road. Now the RV.Net wt police......that is another story issue.

marty

I've never even be pulled over.....wave at one time by HP but never pulled over.

Wouldn't bother me if I was......I have weigh tickets in glove box and know I ain't got no stinken weight problem :B

Saw a portable weigh station out on Hwy 54/70 in NM (DOT guys/pickup truck with potable scales) pulling vehicles over.......just flagged us on by

Weighed, no. Pulled over and the trailer registration (gvwr) checked against my license, yes.

Never, and I pull a 37ft. trailer. we are non commercial