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...
Forum Discussion
ksss wrote:blt2ski wrote:
As I understand the weight laws, one can not be jailed per say for being overweight.
Marty
That is potentially not true. When you are overweight by a small portion (cant remember the amount) it is an infraction-a fine. However if you are over the infraction amount, it becomes a misdemeanor which can absolutely get you booked into jail and in the process handcuffed. Officer discretion and department policy would likely have much to do with whether or not that actually occurred.
Everything I have read shows that keeping commerce moving, keeping rigs under the road design limits is the goal. One Has 8 hrs to move thing around on the rig to get under axle limits etc. IF one cannot,then you pay the TAX, for the damage you will do to the road, and continue on your way.
Many drivers get overload tickets daily depending upon circumstances, company they drive for gives them a CC to pay for fine, and off they go to destination.
I am sure there are some very obtuse overload situations where one can get put in jail for being overweight, that is NOT the intent of the law.
We have other issues that will get use in more trouble than a weight law.
marty
