itezja

I know there are stiff fines for commercial use vehicles, but I've never heard anyone getting fined for having two much weight on their personal vehicle.

sam29078

It comes to common sense if overloaded to the point is it safe to drive. If it's really noticeable the cops might do something or want until you wreck. Just make more trips

130428

if it's unsafe and / or the cop is in a bad mood, then it's an infraction like any other. Is it dangerous to drive 10 over the speed limit? No, in most cases. Can you get a ticket? Sure.

venatic

In MO, when you register your truck, you need to specify what weight for your plates. I believe the options are 6,000, 12,000 and 18,000. Don't quote me on that. Those weights are for when you are trailering anything.

If I were pulled over with my TT and I had 6,000, I'd be over weight and fined. They have portable scales for that purpose. Naturally, you pay more the more weight you have.

acadianbob

Well, if there is an accident, and then perhaps a lawsuit, and it can be shown that the truck was overloaded . . . . I wouldn't want to be in that position.

xcntrk

In Virginia, weight enforcement is based on your registration and not the manufacture specifications for the tow-vehicle. The greater your registered towing capacity, the more costly that registration is to maintain. So the reality is most register based on what their vehicle can support and/or what they plan to haul (lesser of the two). Theoretically I could walk down to my DMV and register my half-ton F150 for 15k of towing capacity regardless of whether the rig could support it. Granted it would cost me an arm & leg as that registration is up on the commercial truck tag territory.

Also in Virginia, they don’t care what you have in-tow as long as the scaled weight (GVWR & GCWR) is within your registered amount. However some states are really **** about using the trailer GVWR as a measure weight. For example if you’re towing an empty equipment trailer that weighs 4k lbs, but that trailer has a 20k lb GVWR, then these states require the TV to be registered at 20k regardless of what’s on the trailer (including empty!). That’s messed up…

xcntrk

I’m with you on this one. It wouldn’t be a stretch for an accident investigator to compare the payload and towing specification sticker on the trailer with that of the tow-vehicle in order to identify blatant over weight situations. In the event of a death from said accident, I would suspect this information would be used as evidence against you.

Mike Up

My truck is plated for 9000 lbs. Even though my GVWR is 7350 lbs, I can legally weigh 9000 lbs. :-)

As long as you pay, they don't care. Imagine that.

brulaz

Similar in Ontario, Canada. The salesman registered my new FX2 at 3000#. Said everybody does it to save $$.

I wonder about that sometimes ...

PerryB

A little off topic but WOW, what a convoluted hodgepodge of regulations we have from state to state. Just don't let uncle Barry get wind of this or we'll likely have a new branch of interstate commerce law just for us! Then Congress will have to vote to approve it, just to find out whats in it (the Nancy Pelosi plan) since apparently nobody in Washington can read. Ok-- I'm done.