Anyone ever actually have their weight checked/ticketed?

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.

As far as judging character on this forum, probably not the most 'friendly' personal characteristic to have unless you are acquainted with the individual. FYI, Mr. Sidecarr reads technical manuals for fun, runs his own commercial machine shop, and has a lifetime of acquired technical information to share on this forum.

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. I have driven all across this country, Canada, and into Alaska several times without incident. Oh yes, I am the RVer who drives at 65 mph on a 75 / 80 mph posted highway.

Please pass safely for I am not in a hurry with my heavy truck.

Lakeside

I apologize if I carried the thread away from the original question. This is a important topic, no intent to flame.

Griffon12 wrote:
Well, I just weighed my Ram 2500 with my Lance 825 (lightest model made) and I'm at 9,700ish, combine that with 2 dogs, wife and her rock collection...AT LEAST 10K, 9,000 is gvwr.....It feels and handles great but legally I'm over. Anyone ever actually gotten a ticket? Those poor folks with a short bed half ton cannot possibly be safe:h

I am considering closing this thread. The OP as a pretty simple question:
"Anyone ever actually have their weight checked/ticketed? "
The posts are not answering the question, and are completely drifting away from the question. Some post are close to flaming. Please get back on track. Your truck build sheet does not answer the question.

Wayne
Moderator

I think you guys are missing the point. The manufacturer of the truck certified the vehicle to carry x amount of weight. It doesn’t matter if the manufacturer certified the truck because of door latches or braking performance. It is what it is. In the event of a accident, any trial attorney will discover any factors to establish his case. If it discovered that the accident vehicle had a drunk driver, bald tires, or over manufacturer’s certified gross weight it can and should be a factor in the ultimate outcome of the settlement.
I have added sway bars, air bags, heavier rear springs, drives fine, seems to handle the additional weight. But in the event of a accident the fact remains I have knowingly operated the vehicle in excess of the manufacturer’s certified gross weight.
In a major litigation where money is involved that fact will be more expensive than the savings from cheating on the RV’s weight.

SideHillSoup wrote:


If your talking about me ( from BC) your wrong the Coqu is not the highest mounain pass in Canada open year round. The coqu is just a 4 lane mountain pass that no one ever slows down on no matter the season or weather conditions... The reason for the crashes up there is 98% speed... 1% Hwy conditions, 1% driver ability. You know..... if you slow down and dive for Hwy conditions .... there would most likely be next to nothing for car crashes... becuase they would be driving at 70 km/hr. However everyone wants to get to where where they are going when they think they should be there no matter the road conditions. Using the Coqu is not a good example, ever...on drinking skills..
Soup.

Sooooo.... "98% speed..." doesn't count as poor driving? You lost me, even if I got the wrong pass.

But I do agree, Coq is a terrible example of drinking skills.. lol

Reality Check wrote:

soren wrote:

burningman wrote:
Holy cow. Thats even more of a made-up story than we started with!
The only way I can imagine telling that one is in a dark room with a flashlight pointing up from your chin.

To call that one a "stretch" doesn't really do justice to it. All I can say is, "wow". Some folks really live in a different world than the one the rest of us occupy. It's like a cross between a really bad country song and made for TV movie. "I used to love RVing, until I overloaded the camper, and crashed into that short bus full of special needs preschoolers. Now I just can't get those images out of my head, and no longer want to camp." What the.......................

ROTFALMAO....^^^

The BC'er above that is talking about the Coq I believe. It is a big hill, lot's of problems, and almost always because of poor driving. I routinely travel it, as two weekends ago, at 28k plus.. but I was careful to look out for the school buses and Prius's (because it's common knowledge that they are dangerous in the snow/ice and shouldn't even be on the road).

Now that I bring that up, I should warn my neighbor about the consequences he could endure if he was in an accident in his Prius in the snow, especially since he knows,or should know, that it is a very poor handling vehicle in those conditions. A good attorney would tear him apart. I'm going next door to talk right now...

If your talking about me ( from BC) your wrong the Coqu is not the highest mounain pass in Canada open year round. The coqu is just a 4 lane mountain pass that no one ever slows down on no matter the season or weather conditions... The reason for the crashes up there is 98% speed... 1% Hwy conditions, 1% driver ability. You know..... if you slow down and dive for Hwy conditions .... there would most likely be next to nothing for car crashes... becuase they would be driving at 70 km/hr. However everyone wants to get to where where they are going when they think they should be there no matter the road conditions. Using the Coqu is not a good example, ever...on drinking skills..
Soup.

burningman wrote:
The RVs catching fire are almost always due to a propane issue, not overloading.
The other crashes mentioned are poor driving skills. If you’re riding your brakes down a mountain pass, you don’t know how to drive and you’re likely to crash even a properly loaded truck & trailer.

I don’t know how to answer you.... I really really don’t know how to answer someone with the views you have... unbelievable.
One thing...well... maybe a couple things.... have you every lived in the mountains, have you ever driven onto a number of issues on the Hwy where people have died.... ( because of a number of issues, not just over weight) and have you ever driven for a living in said mountains roads, for over 40 years? Weight and loads are always the first thing anyone should be thinking about.... .... think about it...
If you have... then your response to my first post is valid, if not.......?

Soup

Can we get this as a sticky please?

How do I un-subscribe? :S

trail-explorer wrote:

Grit dog wrote:
Well most 3/4 tons are rated 10k gvw and that’s artificially low.

Calling a documented weight rating "artificially low" is fake news.

It’s not fake news when do your homework and see what parts are shared between the 2500 and 3500. This is not fake news but rather old news that has been vetted numerous times as truthful.