JIMNLIN wrote:
Keep in mind FMCSA regs are a recommendation for our states BUT states are required to be equal or better those regs.
It has nothing to do with the subject of this thread, but you have that completely backwards. FMCSA regs are the STANDARD in all states if you are commercial. States are not allowed to impose more stringent rules. There are some LEOs who enforce certain paragraphs to the letter, like the one in IA who ticketed one of my friends twice, in two different pickups, for tinted side windows.
That being said, there is no room for different interpretations as far as FMCSA is concerned. If I load my deckover gooseneck flatbed to 16,000 pounds and it is commercial, OK can not ticket me for being over weight based on anything. For one thing, the sticker you are so proud of fell off years ago. I could be ticketed at 16,000 for exceeding the registered weight however, since it is registered for 14,000.
I'm still waiting for that first LEO to look at my door sticker.
