CA form 4008
Hi guys. We just purchased a new truck listed in sig. The dealer has sent me a DMV form 4008 which is a declaration of gross vehicle weight/combined gross vehicle weight. Essentially I need to stic...
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HMS Beagle wrote:free radical wrote:
I always thought the scales are for commercial vehicles,
meaning geting paid for hauling freight,,unless you do that keep on trucking by..
All pickup trucks in California are registered as commercial, with certain narrow exceptions. In California, any vehicle registered as commercial must stop at all scales again with certain exceptions. One of the exceptions is if the truck is a "pickup truck" as defined by the DMV. To meet that definition it must be less than 8001 lbs unladen weight, and less than 11,501 lbs GVWR. Also, it must have a standard pickup bed, not a flat bed or a utility bed. That means most 1T dually or crew cab pickups manufactured after about 2011 or so are required by law to stop at scales - though almost none do.
It doesn't matter if you are getting paid.
Maybe a concentrated effort of everyone driving such trucks clogging up the scales could get a message across.
So far on our trip now with the new truck we have passed many scales. Still no signs of new plates back home. Hoping they get here before we cross into Cananda. Not sure if they care or not.
