Well SideHillSoup I’m 53 and have run trucks if every size from one-ton tow trucks to 105,500 pound crane trucks for a living for over 30 years and I’m from the mountainous Pacific Northwest. I also do all my own work, engines, chassis, body all of it. This subject is kind of in my wheelhouse.
Apparently the answer to the question is in BC it’s not unheard of to scale-check a pickup & camper and enforce it by the sticker ratings (if I lived there I’d remove them!) but in the U.S. it doesn’t happen.
I actually deal with DOT guys in my job, next time I have occasion to talk to one I’ll ask him about pickups with campers.
