Tow vehicle registration
Has anyone registered their tow vehicle plate with a combined truck and trailer weight?
Forum Discussion
fj12ryder wrote:
Yes, your plate in Missouri is dependent on your total weight. If you license your truck for 12,000 lb. combined weight, and are pulling a 15,000 lb. trailer, you can be ticketed if stopped and checked.
I was stopped for not having a correct year license plate mounted on the truck. I had the plate just had neglected to mount it. The highway patrolman commented that at least I had the proper weight plates. They were 23,000 lb. plates, and I was pulling a 15,000 lb. 5th wheel. He could easily have called out the roving weight patrol, weighed my truck and trailer, and given me a ticket if I was overweight for my tags.
That's why you would want to.
Yep. I’m in Missouri too and what he said is a fact. I still have a lightweight TT that is well below the limit but I licensed my 2018 3500 as if I would be hauling my new fiver (that I don’t have yet) because I didn’t know when I would be getting it. It would be my luck to get pulled over and fined. It’s more expensive to license it correctly but not a deal breaker.
Oddly enough, if you license it over a certain weight (can’t remember it now) you only get one plate and it goes on the front.
