lakeside013104 wrote:
soren wrote:
Hey now, slow down. All those fact things are hurting the feelings of the many expert members here. If we stick to reality, I lose the chance to giggle at claims like, "as soon as your insurance company knows you are overweight, they will walk away, and let you deal with the accident alone". The caliber of some expert posts here on the forum are enough to make Forrest Gump envious, and you want to ruin it with REALITY? Oh, the humanity............................
I believe Mr. Sidecarr was referring to what insurance companies are known to do in the state of Michigan. Unless you have lived in that state, I doubt you are familiar with their finicky insurance laws.
I have never been stopped or ticketed by an LEO for being overweight on the highway. I run a SRW unit and am crowding the weight limits.
Lakeside
"I have never been stopped"
you, and 99.999999% of everybody else who is capable of operating at a safe speed, and still has the steering axle touching the blacktop, have "never been stopped"
Pleeaaseee cite instances where, after an event, any domestic insurer failed to honor their contractual obligation to the insured RV owner, since they were slightly overweight? Or even better, find a company with a few decades of highway towing and recovery contracts with law enfocement, and ask them the following. Exactly how many times they have shoveled up a wrecked RV, took it to a truck scale, pushed it off the rollback, weighed it, then loaded it up again, under the watchful eye of law enforcement. Since said officer had a "hunch" that it might be a touch over the manufacturer's rating? My money is on you getting laughed at, while asking that silly question. The concept of SLIGHTLY OVERWEIGHT is correct, in the context of this forum. This place is full of hand wringing over being a few hundred pounds over a placard, as opposed to obviously reckless behavior. For example, I recently passed a 1990's GM trailblazer, on an interstate, pulling a 1960-70s era, sticks and tin travel trailer, about 26-28 ft long. The set-up had a V profile, and the steering axle was barely making contact with the road. THAT is an issue, all this whining and make believe.............not so much.
