ShinerBock wrote:
It boggles my mind that people still believe that the manufacturers rated weight sticker is legally binding when the laws clearly state otherwise. It makes me question where they are getting this information. Do these people actually think that every state have this ginormous database of all the GVWR's and other weight rating of every vehicle and tire configuration ever made? They don't which is why they go by registered(declared) weight.
Ask the average person what they know about the federal bridge weight laws and you will most likely get a blank stare!
In my home state of Washington they license tonnage for pickup trucks. As a default they take the empty weight times 1.5 and round up to the next even 1000. Both my 2001.5 GVWR 8800 lbs and 2015 GVWR 11,700 were licensed for 12K. On either I could have paid a little more and license either one for 14K.
