Laws are made to be vague. It gives authority a lot ability to perform their job. Laws are not black and white, that's for the courts are to determine.

 

Each and every Province and State have their own rules and regulations. Check with your Ministry of Transportation or DOT in your area for clarification.
By definition, our beloved F150's are all Commercial motor vehicles. That being said, there are policies in place to eliminate every daily driver from having to pull in for inspection when being used as a personal use vehicle.
These policies will not prevent you from inspection should you choose to make a spectacle of yourself by overloading or not securing your load. You will be inspected and charged accordingly.
One suggestion I give to all of my friends is to actually purchase tie downs with a Working Load Limit printed on them. In the case you are ever loaded and pulled over this will go a long way in helping your cause. Buying the 4 pack of ratchet straps at the local auto accessories depot is not going to cut it.

 

In addition, for those wondering I actually scaled my truck tonight leaving the office for fun.
2010 FX4 Screw 6.5 box with 3/4 full tank of fuel and my fluffy *** = 3060 kgs (6746 lbs)
My truck has all options except navigation so I would expect it is on the heavier side of the average F150 on the road. This should give you a general idea of where your truck weighs in and whether you need to re-evaluate how your truck is registered to comply with your State or Provincial laws.

 

WOW! That's a heavyweight!

 

I rolled across at 5800 on the cat scales

 

I travel in KS and OK. Not many rules other than 26K total or being a commercial vehicle of any kind needing a DOT number. I have a Class A CDL. Not much to it. Oh and KS has a nifty law about pulling a trailer behind a dump truck.....no bueno. lol.

 

I came in at 6,480 actual running weight (36gal fuel, x2 adults, x1 child, WD hitch, tools, misc gear.). I have up to 7,500 GVWR in my state before I have to hit the scales.

 

I wish I could find my receipt I seem kind of light compared to the rest of you guys. I was buy myself with a dump trailer behind me. It totaled like 110 or 12k if I remember correctly truck and trailer two tons of some

 

My 2010 Lariat supercab 4x4 weighs in at exactly 5700 lbs with no passengers and a full tank of fuel.

 

I am in Ontario, Canada and ALL, and by that I mean ALL commercially and privately owned f350/3500, dually or single wheel trucks MUST be registered as commercial vehicles and are subject to commercial vehicle regulations and inspection which in Ontario means yearly safety inspections (yellow stickers) and mandatory weigh stations when they are open. In Canada I have never heard of these laws being enforced but they are there. What I really want to know is if anyone has been pulled over and fined for an overloaded truck. To the best of my knowledge no one in either Canada or the U.S.A. has ever been fined for an overloaded truck unless they make it painfully obvious and the MOT/DOT/COP's are forced to step in (a half ton truck pulling a 40 foot 'fiver is a good way to attract attention).