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I have a 2009 GMC 2500hd diesel. The door sticker indicates a GAWR RR at 6064lbs and GAWR frt at 4860lbs. I am interested in buying an artic fox 811 truck camper with a dry weight of approximately 28...
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S Davis wrote:
I drive over 20,000 miles a year, the truck drives great and nothing has exploded and I have not been arrested for being over the yellow sticker.
A comment from someone who may admittedly be overly cautious.
Just because you haven't been arrested for being over the sticker weight doesn't mean the vehicle's GVWR has no legal significance.
Worst case scenario: You're in an accident, and somebody else dies. Let's stipulate it wasn't your fault, and it couldn't have been avoided.
But the Highway Patrol goes into full investigative mode and decides you were WAY over the GVWR. Are you absolutely positive that:
1. The police won't decide you were recklessly negligent and charge you with Involuntary Manslaughter?
2. You won't have to a civil suit that you can't win that is going to cost you your house, your retirement, and your kid's college funds?
I'm not, which is why I don't treat the GVWR as a mere 'suggestion'.
Of course, everyone else here is free to do so if they want to.
