The laws are more strict up here in British Columbia when it comes to load weight and towing weight restrictions. The hwys and mountain passes can kill you if you make mistakes with your load and or towing load. Every year there is a news report about someone getting hurt, killed or getting in a accident because of weight issues.
I have seen the DOT and the RCMP pull people over that are clearly overloaded. Now I never stopped to see how things turned out, however just by looking at the rig that was pulled over you could see an issue, and most likely they were getting finding out the hard way about the laws up here.
About a 30 minutes from my house, is the highest mountain pass open year round in Canada. A couple years ago a fella from Alberta ( flat lander) was pulling a over loaded trailer with building materials on in crashed and died coming down the western side of the pass. The reason was he overloaded the pickup truck and flat bed trailer, and burned up the breaks coming down the west side and went over the edge on a corner he was traveling to fast for.
Another issue we see are people coming down the mountain passes faster then they should be safely traveling at and they do get their rig stopped only to find out that they just wore out all their breaks. We smell that one daily in our town as we are in a bottom of a valley with two mountain passes on either side of us.
Another thing we see and hear about on the news all the time is a vehicle and especially RV’s over heating and some catching on fire. Last year one RV caught on fire in the Fraser Canyon region and started a Forrest fire.
Now all the things I am saying are the extreams of what “can” happen when overloaded, however why would you ever take a chance with your life, your families life and maybe someone else’s safety that unwillingly gets caught up in your issues on the Hwy.
Some, but not all BC regs on weightsSoup.
