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JIMNLIN
Jan 08, 2019Explorer III
The day will come when there is a high profile accident and that will be the end of this under enforcement. There are certainly commercial vehicle operators that have a much larger margin of safety than RVers, yet they have to go through the formalities.
JFI.... but LTL commercial operators use the same LDTs that we pull and carry our RV with...... and the same size gvwr flatdeck/enclosed/stock trailers using the same axles/tires/wheels have the same safety margins as the rv world.
In other words if I chose the F450 in question to do LTL work we weigh our trucks fawr and rawr separately with attention to those 9900 rawr for this particular LDT which may weigh in the 3700 lb range = approx around 6k lb money making payload.
We don't make money on a gvwr based payload sticker.
My point here is the margins of safety are the same in the rv world for the F450 pickup vs using it for LTL work.
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