Tow vehicle registration

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.

wanderingbob wrote:
Ever state will be different as well as the enforcement will be different depended on your attitude and the officers attitude . Always carry a box of donuts !

Good plan! LOL

Grit dog wrote:
These types of questions are like getting online and asking the general public if you should have a colonoscopy because your ____ hole feels a little different this morning.
How the ____ would we know unless we live in YOUR ____ hole (or Ontario)? Lol
So fair enough to ask the question and hope someone from your ____ hole knows the answer.
BUT, why would the rest of your talk about your own ____hole when the OP is asking about his ____ hole, which is different than yours?
(Unless you know about his ____ hole, or Ontario in this case.)

It's interesting to see how regulations vary across the country.

Local DOT don't separate commercial and personal use towing when it comes to vehicle registration. They're telling me that the combined weight is what should be reported for registration. Because of the truck GVW alone, I have to sign a declaration of personal use to avoid CVOR rules.
I can increase my registered weight for those months that I'm towing (about 23,000lbs) and revert back to just the truck GVW (11,500lbs) when not towing. This is all to follow the letter of the highway traffic act in Ontario Canada.
All that being said, I don't know anyone who does this and have never seen a RV pulled over to be weighed. I have heard of it happening but don't know the outcome.

Ever state will be different as well as the enforcement will be different depended on your attitude and the officers attitude . Always carry a box of donuts !

These types of questions are like getting online and asking the general public if you should have a colonoscopy because your ____ hole feels a little different this morning.
How the ____ would we know unless we live in YOUR ____ hole (or Ontario)? Lol
So fair enough to ask the question and hope someone from your ____ hole knows the answer.
BUT, why would the rest of your talk about your own ____hole when the OP is asking about his ____ hole, which is different than yours?
(Unless you know about his ____ hole, or Ontario in this case.)

Tyler0215 wrote:
Why would you want to?

Good question as the OP is from Canada and may or may not require and GCW for registration purposes.
Its not possible in Oklahoma to register a non commercial truck/trailer at a GCW. In fact we have no weight for registering our non commercial trucks.

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.

Why would you want to?