GVWR

CWSWine wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
"This is how I come to my conclusion to not exceeding GVWR."

Since you have this GVWR figured out please explain how my RAM Dually has 6k for axle rating and 9,750# rear axle rating and has 14K GVWR. The fact that the RAWR for example is part of the SAE rating and I do run 9,750# rear but even if I only add the unloaded front axle weight of about 5,250# that puts me at 15K.

No one can explain this? I did not write the first sentence above.

Most hotshots are towing empty RVs with 1 Ton trucks and the UVW seldom exceeds the GVWR.

If they have a DOT number they have to comply. DOT uses the VIN to pull the manufacture specs into the weight stations computer. When they drive on the scales they have all green on the screen including the GVWR. During my research, I sat in weight station and watch the weighting process. Ask the operator how many get nailed for over GVWR and very few commercial trucks since the GVWR on commercial trucks are rate high enough they normally exceed GAWR before GVWR but it does happen.

You realize MOST if not ALL commercial trucks, the gvwr is the sum of the axle weight ratings! At least my MDT is that way. Hence why most rigs will get an over weight on an axel, before getting over weight for the sum. Hence also why, many rigs install drop axels etc so they can not always carry more weight, but if a load is loaded incorrectly, ie dump trucks etc, they can stay legal per the axel wts.

I've also been pulled over at the weigh scales, by CVEO's in vans etc. I have yet to get an overweight ticket, even being 150% of the vehicles gvwr per Navistar. I get the FBL regs, assuming I have enough paid for tag on the truck. Even the one time I was over by 1200 lbs of paid tag, I was given 10 days to up the tag by 2000 lbs, as weight is sold here in Wa St. A whopping $15 per ton!

You also realize, if a state uses the manufacture numbers to decide the gvwr of a rig, they can lose federal funding for road repairs etc? Hence why it is very black and white as to what a rig can run down the road at per the FBL.

Again, as I stated above, there is more than one way to look at how one can run down the road at given weight! GCWR does not have a place in weight laws. Only GVW!

Marty