blt2ski wrote:
Neither registration shows paid for wt tags. SO now the LEO has to go to the truck/trailer and figure out what is max, SO looks at door frame etc.
You're confusing 2 separate statutes. You are confusing registered weights and legal weights. That's a common confusion for people who are not very well versed in the law and try to interpret the law they way they *think* it should read.
Look at it this way. Your registered weight is a tax you pay to haul "X" number of pounds. Doesn't matter what your door sticker says. If you want to haul 10K in your truck then you pay the tax to haul at least 10K. If you decide you want to haul 15K then you would need to pay the additional "tax", ie, registration fee to haul the additional weight. You fed door sticker may say something like 9600 lbs. Doesn't matter what the door sticker says if you don't pay the tax (registration fee). It also doesn't matter if your door sticker says 9600 lbs and you've paid your registration fee for 12K. That door sticker doesn't mean a thing as far as what you register for. What matters is did you pay enough tax to haul for what you're hauling.
You can be over on your registered weight and completely legal on axle and/or gross. They are completely separate issues. When people who don't understand the law try to read it it seems as soon as they see the word "weight" they can't separate what they're reading and that confuses them. It's really not that difficult but people who don't have the training make it difficult for themselves and then when they try to explain what they *think* it just confuses others and even themselves more. People do the same thing when they read the speed statutes and similar worded statutes titled "too fast for conditions". They think because they're under the posted speed limit that they can't be cited for "too fast for conditions". Again, one doesn't have anything to do with the other.
The law is written at an 8th grade reading comprehension level. The problem is the average American reads at a 3rd grade comprehension level. They aren't capable of understanding what they read. What's even worse is for every person who is at a 5th grade level there is the person who is at the 1st grade level.
