How the pro RV transporters tow
If you travel Interstate 90 through Ohio, PA, and NY you see a *LOT* of professional RV transporters moving units East this time of year. I paid close attention any time one passed by and tried to gat...
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What you are saying makes sense, but the highway patrol officers that I have encountered look at stickers.
If your tag trailer sticker says 10,001 GVWR or above, they issue citations.
If your fifth wheel or gooseneck sticker is 15,000 or above, they issue citations.
The only exceptions are if the driver has either a commercial class A, a non commercial class A, or an RV endorsement on a class C license, of which not even a highway patrol scales supervisor even knew about or heard of.
Enforcement on the side of the road is very much a judgment call entirely in the discretion of the officer in charge.
There are trailer builders and dealers who will build trailers around here with tandem 7k axles and frames beefy enough to handle 14K, and they will sticker that trailer for 9,999 GVWR so the purchaser can have an overbuilt mechanical safety factor without running afoul of the law.
I'm not debating your experience. I'm simply relating what I've encountered.
The safest bet, legally as well as mechanically, is to simply not exceed any limitation that the lowest rated capacity rating component of the system has.
The officer is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS correct, and already knew more than I have ever learned in my entire life at the very instant of his birth several decades following mine.
If your tag trailer sticker says 10,001 GVWR or above, they issue citations.
If your fifth wheel or gooseneck sticker is 15,000 or above, they issue citations.
The only exceptions are if the driver has either a commercial class A, a non commercial class A, or an RV endorsement on a class C license, of which not even a highway patrol scales supervisor even knew about or heard of.
Enforcement on the side of the road is very much a judgment call entirely in the discretion of the officer in charge.
There are trailer builders and dealers who will build trailers around here with tandem 7k axles and frames beefy enough to handle 14K, and they will sticker that trailer for 9,999 GVWR so the purchaser can have an overbuilt mechanical safety factor without running afoul of the law.
I'm not debating your experience. I'm simply relating what I've encountered.
The safest bet, legally as well as mechanically, is to simply not exceed any limitation that the lowest rated capacity rating component of the system has.
The officer is ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS correct, and already knew more than I have ever learned in my entire life at the very instant of his birth several decades following mine.
