Family of six looking for tow vehicle

blt2ski wrote:

CKNSLS wrote:
If you have an at fault accident the other party's lawyer will care towing that much overweight.

Care to show an actual case from a court that this will happen? other than what I personally believe to be a totally false setup from some dune post in Ca IIRC!

In my state any how, ie washington, if the person in the van is under its max axel wt ratings, has the proper PAID for licenses etc, even if he kills someone, he will be legal from a wt standpoint. There are OTHER laws that will hurt the OP, but being overwt in his situation is NOT going to be an issue!

This shows the metality of some, where if you have a 3.73 axel engine combo, rated to 14000, then put a 4.10, you are good to 16K.......an axel ratio makes you 2000 lbs safer towing?!?!?! with everything else being the same?!?!?!?! yeah right!

Marty

You continually mix up the MDT/HDT regs with the LDT regs which is what we generally talk about here. Also, while you might be able to register your vehicle for about anything it's IMO a HUGE LEAP to feel that in a court of law that just having it registered for a particular wt. makes it a legal defense from a liability standpoint in a civil proceeding is being fool hardy. Just having a legal registration IMO does not defend you against being negligent in operating a vehicle in an unsafe manner because it is overloaded for it's designed capabilities. There are probably no specific wt laws in this regard, but I can see you being held legally accountable for operating a vehicle in an overloaded condition even if your registration is legal. This is sort of like being convicted criminally for murder, but being awarded a HUGE $$$$ judgement when found to be guility of the wrongful death of an individual in a civil proceeding ... both destroy you ... one by taking away your liberty and the other by bankrupting you.

Larry