How the pro RV transporters tow

blt2ski wrote:
Some of you need to remember when it comes to actual wts on the road......it literally is "the weight on the road" the an LEO/CVEO worries about. Your door sticker is NOT a legal wt requirement as far as a wt cop is concerned sitting in a scale shack on the side of the road. The wt limits they care about, is how much damage you are doing to the road. If you are overloaded for those limits, then you get an overwt ticket. There is not generally speaking, a single rv trailer that is over wt per those laws! There are a few class a possibly a class C motor home that the owner feels it is ok to run down the road at 20,001-25K lbs on a 25K rated axel. BUT< the law is clear as a bell, max wt per axel is 20K! they WILL get an overwt ticket if they are weighed, and are over 20001 lbs on a given axel!

I've been pulled over in my dumptruck numerous times OVER the manufactures ratings. NOT ONCE have I gotten an overwt ticket!

Now if you want to disCUSS what happens in a civil court suit. ALL bets are off, as ANYTHING goes in a civil court! Look at someone wrong and you can be sued. But an LEO/CVEO have to be able to prove in black and white that you are in violation of a law. Being over a gcwr where there is no door sticker etc, can not be proven that an axel ratio makes you safer etc.

Laws are there to make it such you can get a ticket if your trailer moves more than 12-18" side to side. If pulled over, you have to correct the issue before being allowed to move the trailer/towed rig. This can be done by correcting an incorrect hitch wt, lowering a tongue. correcting the side to side balance of a trailer etc. OR, yes one can put an anti sway bar or equal on. BUT, MY ISSUE with this is you still have a trailer that wants to sway. So if a bar pops off, breaks or equal, you WILL HAVE an uncontrolled trailer behind you! BEtter to have a trailer that can tow straight etc without bars, then put them on as extra precaution!

So for those still thinking, that being over a manufactures rating is against the law per the folks with blue lights on there rigs. guess again! The wt laws as they are enforced, have been around since before autos! They've been around since horse paths, cart paths etc in the late 1700's to early 1800 in the USA. In Wa st where I am, I can find wt laws back to the mid to late 1800's that generally speaking, are still enforced as they were back then, but with todays wordings!

Marty