Kayteg1 wrote:NRALIFR wrote:
Scoob, I drive through your state often. They’d have no reason to stop me for a weight violation because I’m not a resident of MO, and I’m not engaged in commerce. If either were true, it’d be a different story.
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What the registration on your truck says?
In most of the states any truck is registered as commercial and so far I only hear about California, who allows changing the registration to RV when you keep the camper on it. If you read the laws, RVs are exempt from lot of commercial laws and you can drive 80,000 lb RV rig without CDL.
DOT scales and inspection sites apply to all qualifying vehicles, regardless original registration.
mkirsch wrote:
But it *IS* cargo... when it's convenient.
"No RVs" - It's cargo.
"No cargo" - It's an RV.
mike/kellie wrote:
I think we're talking generally of 3500 series trucks. Taking this forward 1 step as to limit this to truck campers exclusively, there are states that describe truck campers as " cargo". Now we seem to have just gotten included-
specta wrote:
I'm screwed. :E :B
I'm over my trucks GVWR but under on the tires.
NRALIFR wrote:
Scoob, I drive through your state often. They’d have no reason to stop me for a weight violation because I’m not a resident of MO, and I’m not engaged in commerce. If either were true, it’d be a different story.
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JRscooby wrote:NRALIFR wrote:
Scoob, I drive through your state often. They’d have no reason to stop me for a weight violation because I’m not a resident of MO.
I know of many people who have paid fines in this state that are not residents of this state. And I have paid fines in other states.
(As a matter of fact, in '70s Mo (and Iowa, Ark, Ill, Indiana) would not raise their limits to the federal standard because they wanted to continue collecting fines.
All engaged in commerce I’d bet.Oddly enough though, MO is the only place I’ve ever been stopped (twice) wondering where my plate was. AR doesn’t tag or register TC’s, and we don’t have front plates, so the plate stays on the rear bumper of the truck. I don’t make the rules here, I just follow them as best I can. And, I don’t blame them for stopping me, the plate is hard to see with the camper on. There was no citation.
One of my pickups, that often moved a skidsteer, was plated a 18,000. Above 12, only 1 plate, and by law it must be on the front. Hard to train locals.
Engaged in commerce? And by interstate compact, if AR doesn’t require a front plate, it’s not required anywhere.As for the three guys paying fines for pulling boats with half tons; it wasn’t because they were “overloaded”, it’s because they were under taxed! As soon as they pay the proper registration fee, they can tow the same boat with the same truck.
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You can call it what you want, but when I load a truck plated at 54,000, get stopped grossing 60,800 the ticket says right on it, 6,800 lbs overweight. The fine starts at $615+ cost. ($100 to lawyer normally get fine cut in half) If I had put 60,000 plates on it very unlikely to be weighed let alone ticketed.
I have had LEOs tell me they will not enforce some traffic laws (Like vehicle spacing on highway) even if they do apply to RVs because tourism is important.
I think you just made my point. Pay the appropriate tax, you’re golden. LEO’s make discretionary choices like that all the time. As someone said recently, “People will do what they do”.
