Tired of your NYS Commercial Plates?

ACZL wrote:
Having commercial NY plates on a personal truck does NOT mean you have to pull into weigh stations. Only those trucks operating under a business name and w/ USDOT numbers need to pull in. LEO's are not going to waste their time chasing after every RVer in NY who drives past weigh stations. While I agree that it's not right one would have to reg a 3/4 ton p/u as a comm truck based on GVW and NOT allowed on certain roads while the exact same truck used by hiway dept's get reg under gov't plates and CAN use roads comm ones can't.

This may be a mute point in an attempt to get things changed and I fully understand as to why it should be attempted anyways. Sadly, pass plates don't go high enough for GVW weights. ONLY if DMV changed things as it's all about $$$$ for NYS. But say you throw pass plates on a 3/4-1 ton truck for 6,000 lbs.(hypothetically speaking) and truck weighs 9,000 and RV weighs another 13,000 for a total of 22,000 lbs. Get into an accident and some sue happy att'y is going to have a field day.

Even with Passenger plates on my 2500 I still would not be permitted to tow on the parkways, the bridges are just too low. The point is when I'm not towing, I can basically only use Rt 495 to go east or west on Long Island. Not to mention I can't park on most streets in NYC and according to NYC law my truck needs to have my names, address and phone number painted on both sides, removeable magnetic labels aren't legal either. Pure insanity!