autorot8 wrote:
wildtoad wrote:
No skin the game, just curious, but to me the key word is "commercial". Why does this apply to a private use pickup truck? Is the second sentence not related to the first?
In California, anything with an open bed is considered commercial and has to pay the appropriate weight fees at registration. This is because "you could haul stuff" (as I had been told by a DMV representative). So a Ford Explora-Trac or a Subaru Baja, etc., which has an open bed, would also pay for commercial plates.
It gets even more screwy in the land of fruits and nuts. My racing buddy has a Vega "sedan delivery". Guess what? Yep, it has "commercial" plates on it.
Oh sure, he can reg it as a "car", but if he is caught hauling a bag of chips in the rear the fine will cost him more that a CP4 pump fuel system. :R
