Eh Weight Police!

So he was pulling 12,000 lb trailer with pickup rated for 8,600 lb towing.
Farmers do it every day.

Biggest danger danger: The brakes on that trailer might yard the hitch right off the pick em up twuck.

I am curious to know the rest of the story as it could be quite reasonable. Absolutely if this was going at road speeds down a major thoroughfare, this is stupid and deserves a ticket.

On the other hand, this could have been a one-time move a 1/2 mile down a country road at 10mph. An overzealous cop would certainly see it as illegal, write a ticket, and make a Facebook post. A more reasonable cop might toss the flashers on and help a local guy out.

We don't know the rest of the story, so until then I will reserve judgement on the level of stupidity involved.

-Eric

An “E” for effort.

This was Posted Just Before Christmas.
It had several comments.

I see pickup trucks with goosenecks moving empty container boxes often. filling one up with Styrofoam peanuts or potato chips could easily be done within OEM ratings.

While I doubt he had a heavy duty enough hitch to deal with the tow dolly, it is hypothetically possible that the trailer would have been within its tow ratings and GVWR. I could almost certainly pull that trailer, empty, with my SRW 1 ton truck without overloading it. I'd probably even have a few thousand pounds of GCWR to spare.

Norfolk County is where the farm boys live and play. Inventive lot apparently!

Seen this already. Was thinking more along the ingenious route than the stupid route!
(It really is dumb, but I bet everyone would be surprised how well it towed. Usta move 44’ float trailers, empty, on and off the road in and out of our work zone with a dolly hooked to the pintle hitch on a F350 on one job. Never went more than 20-30mph, but it worked ok.)

That is not overweight, that is just plain stupidity. He deserved the ticket with that home rigged setup. That is just reckless.