spoon059 wrote:
Lantley wrote:
Since this thread is focused on truck buying and payload rating vs. enforcement.
I guess we agree it has more legal ramifications than
"The sticker has as much to do with "legality" as the price of tea in China"
We've gotten this thread off topic, shame on us. I stand by my comments, but I don't want to continue the derailed thread. My apologies OP.
It's not off topic as you think. Generally we are concerned with factory ratings when buying a truck.
What does confuse the issue is taxes and weight enforcement.
In some state a trucks exceeding 10K puts it in a different/more costly registration category. The manufacturers produce 10K versions of the same truck to avoid some registration pitfalls.
The commercial Enforcement people are concerned if your GVW exceeds 10K. Again 10K versions are produced to avoid going into DOT enforcement territory.
In the end, yes we are often talking the same truck with different paperwork. But these registration/taxation and enforcement concerns are real issues that one needs to be aware of at purchase time.
While there are plenty of us that have work trucks, most are not concerned about commercial enforcement rules however most are concerned with registration rules. Understanding that there are paper ratings that are different from the engineered ratings is important to know.
