Trailer Life Article about GCWR...etc.
I noticed in the Trailer Life October 2016 edition in the article titled "Take a load off": The author states about the GCWR "there is nothing that can be done to increase a vehicle's GCWR and it m...
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As noted by Chris, Washington state patrol does not follow manufactures ratings when enforcing weight limits. Many other states are the same! Been pulled over at 150% of the "GVWR" per manufacture, weighed, no overweight ticket, as I was under the Federal Bridge laws for tire axel capacities that the "ROAD BED" was designed to handle.
Weight laws from an LEO standpoint ONLY protect the engineer designed road bed limitation from a lbs per inch/foot standpoint, Hence the wording of "Bridge" in the law. Ie spreading the load across a given area so road and literal bridges will not buckle under due to the vehicle point loading from the tires.
The LEO ONLY cares if you have enough "PAID FOR" tax to use the roads from the damage your load is doing to the road bed.
This is the generally speaking "LEGAL" aspect.
If you want to talk from a civil court case......as many people know, Including BenK has mentioned in many posts, ANYTHING can go! the what is convictable has a lower bar to cross over. Might be willing to say a MUCH lower bar!
NONE of you from an rv perspective has to worry about the LEO enforced limits, ASSUMING you are following manufactures limits......again, generally speaking. If you put 25K on an axel rated at 25K lbs, then weighed, you will probably get an over load ticket of 5000 lbs, since the FBL's has a axel limit of 20K lbs per axel, or if less than IIRC 10 to 12' distance center to center, it is 34K lbs. There are some other max wt per axel etc limitations, but from an RV standpoint, again, no one will have to deal with those limits.
Remember the OJ case, not guilty in legal court, guilty in civil court. IMHO, should have been guilty in both!
Marty
Weight laws from an LEO standpoint ONLY protect the engineer designed road bed limitation from a lbs per inch/foot standpoint, Hence the wording of "Bridge" in the law. Ie spreading the load across a given area so road and literal bridges will not buckle under due to the vehicle point loading from the tires.
The LEO ONLY cares if you have enough "PAID FOR" tax to use the roads from the damage your load is doing to the road bed.
This is the generally speaking "LEGAL" aspect.
If you want to talk from a civil court case......as many people know, Including BenK has mentioned in many posts, ANYTHING can go! the what is convictable has a lower bar to cross over. Might be willing to say a MUCH lower bar!
NONE of you from an rv perspective has to worry about the LEO enforced limits, ASSUMING you are following manufactures limits......again, generally speaking. If you put 25K on an axel rated at 25K lbs, then weighed, you will probably get an over load ticket of 5000 lbs, since the FBL's has a axel limit of 20K lbs per axel, or if less than IIRC 10 to 12' distance center to center, it is 34K lbs. There are some other max wt per axel etc limitations, but from an RV standpoint, again, no one will have to deal with those limits.
Remember the OJ case, not guilty in legal court, guilty in civil court. IMHO, should have been guilty in both!
Marty
