10,000 lb Vehicle weight and the law
In looking through the Washington and municipal laws regarding whether or not truck campers are RV's I noticed the laws are rife with definitions involving 10,000 lb vehicle weight (with an occasiona...
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RV and passenger autos usually escape , however commercially operated may be a different situation .
It might not the common thing to see in some areas but it does occur. It will depend on each particular accident investigation and who is conducting it . Some departments conduct real investigations while others don't.
The reason most people do not see a box on a state accident report that shows overloaded vehicle is because a separate sub-division does that part of the extended investigation and most people and media are not exposed to those particular forms ,they are sealed for court purposes.
Not only in NY but the Motor-Carrier Division of major P.D.'s specialize in enforcing commercial vehicle weights. They receive special training in which forensic evidence in gathered at fatal accident scenes. That is why interstates are shut down for hours while MCD and Homicide Divisions take crime scene photographs , measurements and calculate weights skid marks and distances .
Commercial drivers have been (fact: have been) arrested for felonies involving overloaded trucks and buses when involved in a fatality.
The arrest may not come at the scene but does in fact occur a day or a week afterwards and that might be the reason some people don't hear about it .
It might not the common thing to see in some areas but it does occur. It will depend on each particular accident investigation and who is conducting it . Some departments conduct real investigations while others don't.
The reason most people do not see a box on a state accident report that shows overloaded vehicle is because a separate sub-division does that part of the extended investigation and most people and media are not exposed to those particular forms ,they are sealed for court purposes.
Not only in NY but the Motor-Carrier Division of major P.D.'s specialize in enforcing commercial vehicle weights. They receive special training in which forensic evidence in gathered at fatal accident scenes. That is why interstates are shut down for hours while MCD and Homicide Divisions take crime scene photographs , measurements and calculate weights skid marks and distances .
Commercial drivers have been (fact: have been) arrested for felonies involving overloaded trucks and buses when involved in a fatality.
The arrest may not come at the scene but does in fact occur a day or a week afterwards and that might be the reason some people don't hear about it .
