In CA with a 1T where do you display your weight sticker?

BTW my friend owns big truck with mounted crane that he uses occasionally in his business.
Not sure if it has below 26k or above rating, but he has no weight stickers and no CDL.
One time, having 13,000 lb pump on it, he got pulled over after bypassing scales.
I was thinking about at least 3 VERY SERIOUS violations he had on his head and the truck should be impounded at the time.
2 DOT officers were scratching their heads for quite few minutes and finally let him go.
We are only humans.

Reddog1 wrote:
You find a CHP that drives a CHP Pick-up, and show him the truck and registration and I bet you will know more. I ran my flatbed for over five years before I was stopped.

As I said before, it did happen to me when I drove F450 flatbed with 9000lb forklift on it. Truck was 8 years old and registered by its 9000lb empty weight.
I went to DMV and that is where they made me to fill up GCWR declaration and that single point cost me about $500 on the spot and every year after as I got 30k weight stickers.
It had nothing to do with kind of bed I had (it was 10' flatbed).
Funny part was that with commercial registration, I had to move registration stickers to front plate.
I spoke with DOT officers on several occasions and being curious by nature - always ask question.
On some subjects 3 different officers would give me 3 different answers.

would be nice to see those 250 and 150 class owners saying what their registration says.
Per my experience no truck has "pickup" on the registration as this is DOT classification.
And again, few years back DMV would allow registering trucks by their empty weight. That was not legal, but very common.
So just becouse we did get away with the procedure, it does not make it legal.
Long way from sticker placement we went :h

Kayteg1 wrote:
Never had different registration for flatbed in CA, but than I did own only 3, so what do I know? ;)
All pickups used in Bay Area do have weight stickers.
Some privately own F250 don't and it is hard to figure out if they are registered as PM, or just don't care about obeying the law.
Those stickers do have very strong glue. I removed them from my truck 3 years ago and still fight the residue.

You find a CHP that drives a CHP Pick-up, and show him the truck and registration and I bet you will know more. I ran my flatbed for over five years before I was stopped.

Read this document. It's all there in the first few pages.

Reddog1 wrote:
Has anyone ever seen a California registered pick-up truck with a weight sticker on it?

In California, you CANNOT register a 14,000 GVWR truck as a pickup. See CVC 471. I just got the plates for mine from the DMV and they have weight tags. Up until about 2012 year model, 1 ton pickups were under 11,500. Not anymore. So no, you will never see a registered pickup with a weight tag, but you cannot register your 2016 F350 dually as a pickup. Read the summary link I posted above from the DMV.

Never had different registration for flatbed in CA, but than I did own only 3, so what do I know? ;)
All pickups used in Bay Area do have weight stickers.
Some privately own F250 don't and it is hard to figure out if they are registered as PM, or just don't care about obeying the law.
Those stickers do have very strong glue. I removed them from my truck 3 years ago and still fight the residue.

Has anyone ever seen a California registered pick-up truck with a weight sticker on it?

In California, flat bed trucks have a different registrations than pick-ups. If I remember correctly, the various registration fees are higher with a flatbed. As I recall, it makes no difference if it is a 1/2-ton or 1-ton, if it is registered as a flatbed it is supposed to stop at all scales. I think this applies to utility beds also.

Years ago, I had a 1-ton flatbed that was registered as a pick-up. A CHP pulled me over, read my registration and cited me for improper registration. I had to go to DMV after weighing my truck. My fees went up 5 times higher than they were. I then had to go to the Highway Patrol station to have the ticket signed off.

Years later, I gave the flatbed truck to my son-in-law. He re-registered it for hauling his TC. He was told the TC must remain on the truck.

Hopefully, everyone is aware the laws may differ in different states.

You made me going to my truck and check the papers.
There is no RV classification for trucks with campers in CA.
It is registered as PM, or privately own vehicle and surprisingly the dmv site search did not come with much of information about it.
Go figure - by registering your truck as PM, the state is loosing +- $500 on weight fee every single year.
I call DMV and they told me no restriction on pulling heavy trailers with PM, so as long as you have some kind of camper on the pickup, you can hook up 25,000lb equipment hauler and haul all bulldozers you want.
This is where I would advise a grain of salt as the office clerk and DOT officers are different institutions and if you look too commercial bypassing scales, you might get pulled over.

CVC:

471. A "pickup truck" is a motor truck with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of less than 11,500 pounds, an unladen weight of less than 8,001 pounds, and which is equipped with an open box-type bed not exceeding 9 feet in length. "Pickup truck" does not include a motor vehicle otherwise meeting the above definition, that is equipped with a bed-mounted storage compartment unit commonly called a "utility body."

From the DMV summary :

The following trucks are not pickup trucks:
Trucks with an opne box type bed that weigh more than 8000 lbs unladen or exceed the manufacturer's GVWR of 11,500 pounds.