Survey - who has had a citation for RV overweight?
Details appreciated like where, details of weight, fine or jail time, did your rig get towed, were you handcuffed...
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spoon059 wrote:CWSWine wrote:
When I sat on a jury we had to fill out form stating what factors caused an accident and one of the questions was "Was the Vehicle Operating within manufacture specs - Yes - No What percentage of cause do you assign" or sometime to those words.
As you noted though, that is but one single piece of the puzzle. Being overloaded while driving in excess speed, while distracted by something, while following too closely, while running a red light is certainly enough to be civilly liable. But any one single thing is likely not enough to prove negligence.
That is so true overweight contributed to the accident and some lay people on a jury in civil case will assign a percentage of fault for being over weight and the the other factors. That is what we did but the case I was on was not over weight case it was car accident. Listening to the jury debate was interesting at the least.
