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

The RV exemption only applies if your camper is "permanently attached" to the pickup and you change your registration to an RV. From the DMV summary:

A pickup with a camper: Temporarily-attached is a commercial vehicle and the camper is a load.

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I would love to be wrong on this stuff. But if you say it is wrong, please quote the relevant DMV regulation.

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Recreation vehicles are exempt this only applies to commercial. If you are using your 1 ton to deliver campers or fifth wheels for a dealership this would apply you would be considered commercial. If you are a private RV none of this applies.

Reddog1 is correct this is bad info and should be closed.

That beside the fact that DMV are just clerks and they are not required to know technical aspects.
I stop one time at DOT scales to ask them what exactly "pickup" in California is.
Took friendly officer good 10 minutes of reading fat book to come with the answer.

Reddog1 wrote:
I suggest readers of this Thread read close and take it with a grain of salt. If any part of it concerns you, check with DMV or the Calif Highway Patrol to insure it pertains to you. Based on my personal experience, I am comfortable in saying lots of exaggerated and misinformation here.

First off, ask two different people the same question at the DMV, and you will get THREE conflicting answers!

Second off, care to share these experiences?

It's called "Revenue Enhancement" in the trucking industry and it's not just with weights, it's with everything involved w/trucking be it a pick-up, "hot Shot" 1 ton w/trailer or a full bore class 8 rig.

Here in the "corn patch", anything towed/hauled w/any kind of pickup that appears to be commercial and/or farm related, is subject to being stopped and inspected. I'm retired (4 yrs now off the road) and I still need my CDL w/Haz-Mat endorsement to help the local farm co-op in the spring w/fertilizer delivery during the planting season.

ALL in the name of $afety, you know!!

I suggest readers of this Thread read close and take it with a grain of salt. If any part of it concerns you, check with DMV or the Calif Highway Patrol to insure it pertains to you. Based on my personal experience, I am comfortable in saying lots of exaggerated and misinformation here.

Wayne

Lot of laws was in force decades ago, but not enforced.
I bought my F450 flatbed about 2004. At the time it was registered at 9000lb its own weight.
Than one time I got pulled over having 9,000 lb forklift on it and they send me to DMV for stickers. Truck was 8 years old at the time.
So then they ask me how much trailers I am planning to haul. Since I had equipment trailer, I ended up with 30,000 lb stickers where weigh fee alone was in range of $600.
Bare in mind that all pickups have obligation to run via DOT scales.
Lot of those scales do have "no pickups" sign, but I hope you know definition of pickup in California?
Bottom line, nobody did worry about those things 10 years ago when life was good, but now when all budgets are running into red, the supervisors convert law enforcement officers into revenue seekers and we all will have to pay sooner or later.
Did you notice that police cruisers in CA no longer have "to serve and protect" signs on them?

To get the tags you have to declare your GVW, the only choice for these trucks is 10,001 - 15,000. If you don't declare it and EVER carry ANYTHING in the bed, you could get a ticket, they tell me. Doesn't have to be for hire, just groceries. Maybe even if you don't carry anything - it looks like the definition leaves little wiggle room. To register it as an RV, you have to "permanently attach" your camper - not sure what that means and I bet it varies depending on who you drew at the window.

It seems like a lot of nonsense that wasn't applicable to a few years earlier, the DMV hasn't caught up with the times. It isn' just the sticker, the way I read the rules, you have to have permits, signs on the sides, etc. if they really mean to classify it that way.

Like I said there are a lot of these around, nobody seems to be complying. I'll throw my tags in the glove box 'cause I don't know what to do with 'em.

Mine are in the glove box with the registration, never been asked for them since 2008 when I was issued my 1st ones. RVs due not enter the scales.