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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ah64id wrote:~DJ~ wrote:
We also license our trucks as passenger cars. :)
Be careful with that one. The passenger car plate is only good to 8,000lbs and ISP has started issuing tickets for it. There are 2 other plates 8,001-16,000 and 16,001-26,000. Trailers that have an RV sticker are excempt from your weigh, but if the TV is over 8,000 with the trailer unhooked and you have passenger car plates. I register for 26K so I don't have to mess with it. I am over 8K nearly all of the time, even with an empty bed.
The real BS part about it is that the DMV doesn't advertise the different plates, nor do they ask you about what weight you want when you register.
If an Idaho plate expires in any month but December it's for sure a passenger car plate, if it expires in December it could be a passenger car or 8,000+ non-commercial.
It is a confusing law for sure. My truck is under 8000 empty and RV's are exempt but the 8000 also applies to GCVWR. So when I hook up my enclosed trailer with quads I technically need a truck plate.
I ran into a State Trooper yesterday (not literally!!) and had a chat with him. He said what they are really looking for are these construction guys with the big enclosed trailers running around with car plates.
I also stopped by DMV to see the cost of a truck plate. It was virtually the same!!! So I don't understand what the heck is going on with that!!
