King pin weight

Towing in excess of the vehicle manufacturer’s weight limits could not only prove dangerous, but could even be considered negligent. In the event of an accident with an overweight personal vehicle, you could be held responsible for higher awards in a lawsuit for damages to other people, vehicles or property.

Personal Vehicle Towing Liability for RV’ers

Now who do you want to believe is the question.....Forum Lawyer - Legal Orientated Website - Or do what I did, contract a local attorney for advice. Your Choice....

* This post was last edited 01/02/18 08:36pm by CWSWine * View edit history

A smart local attorney will do his case work and find out real quick why the mfg GVWR isn't used in any legal sense or could used in any civil court case.
Every LDT truck on the road pulling a trailer (rv and non rv) commercially is carrying weight above the truck mfg gvwr or its gvwr payload sticker. It would take a awful dumb lawyer to try and make a civil case against a truck owner/operator for carrying weight above the truck makers gvwr.
First thing he will find is a truck maker tells us "Front and rear GAWRs will, in all cases, sum to a number equal to or greater than the GVWR for the particular vehicle."
or
A truck maker shows two GVWR numbers (10k or 11.3k) for the same exact truck.
Just a couple of reason our commercial brothers and sisters LDT trucks operating on our roads 24/7 are carrying weight determined by axle/tires ...not the trucks GVWR.
Of course we are involved in accidents and we face civil lawsuits only if were over the trucks "LEGAL " load limits.

Oh yeah....when contacting a attorney forget the local lawyer and go to a lawyer that does trucking court cases...as I did when I was on the road towing for a living.

Over on trucking forums the gvwr/lawsuit question comes up once in a while usually by a newby operator. First responses are he has been reading to many rv forums.