What ton license?

[bigtoy]

Here in Iowa most pickups have a 3 ton license. Nobody worries about it. My truck weighs more than 3 ton empty. I think if a person is pulling heavy trailers you do need to worry about getting caught and fined. I am thinking of upping the weight limit on my truck. What do you guys think?

 

[Bob V]

Most states RVs are exempt from weight regulations. In Oregon if you UTILITY trailer is over 8,000# the truck need a special license, NO restrictions on RVs.

 

[Joseph Donnelly]

Each state is different. For a while Nevada tried the game of making you register your truck for total combined weight, but no longer. In NM, registration shows factory GVW and shipping weight. Nothing said about a special plate.

 

[Axtell3]

NY you need commercial plates. On a dump truck you register for laden weight. DMV clerks are always trying to get me to go for less weight. No Mam, I don't want the ticket.

 

[RVTRKN]

Each state is different. For a while Nevada tried the game of making you register your truck for total combined weight, but no longer. In NM, registration shows factory GVW and shipping weight. Nothing said about a special plate.

Ca has the registration for GVW/GCVW if your truck is a true commercial vehicle, My C&C falls under this law and I ignore it because its insured and used strictly as a private use vehicle.

 

[Barry]

Last week, I picked up a 330 Peterbilt with the Schwalbe Conversion in Bakersfield and headed east. CHP had a truck inspection set up in the rest area just east of Mojave. A rookie CHP officer was on me like gravy on a chicken fried steak. Pulled me into the inspection lane they had set up. After much deliberation, consultation and consternation, they concluded that I was indeed an RV/Not For Hire and did not fall under the commercial rules. I guess they finally read the placards at the bottom of each door... .....

Of all the trucks I have bought in California this year, it is the first time I have been stopped.

They thanked me for my time and bid me farewell... ... ... ... ... ... ... I rolled on east for another 2250 miles to the dealership without further incident.

 

[RVTRKN]

Barry, what was the conversation about, concerning the truck. In 06/07, CA changed the way trucks were registered for true commercial use of them. Did the truck have a weight sticker on the door (the weight that is declared), usually it is at the bottom rear of the front door? Dodge registered my 07 C&C wrong, not realizing the rule change. When I went to increase the weight (26K), for true commercial use, DMV made me re-register the truck to include inspection and have it weighed and then declare my GVWR/GCVWR.

 

[Wayne M.]

NY you need commercial plates. On a dump truck you register for laden weight. DMV clerks are always trying to get me to go for less weight. No Mam, I don't want the ticket.

In NY I always understood it as if you're under 10000 it could go either way depending on use, and pickups with or without caps are a whole different story. Over 10k and you gotta go comm, unless you're an RV. The DMV clerks down my way are way less forgiving. Curb weights for cars. GVW for everything else and that rules.
As far as posted weight limits go, my 3500 is overweight for the Brooklyn bridge. Lol.

Bigtoy, you should permit your truck for whatever its rated to carry. IMHO.

 

[RVTRKN]

That would cost a lot in California, thousands of regular pickups here tow just at or over 23K GCVW, that are taxed for a standard GVW. To compare a regular pickup DRW 3500 vrs a C&C DRW 3500, is a lot of money, considering I'm supposed to declare whatever weight I tow and the regular truck is only registered at the GVWR, thats a couple of hundred more dollars in registration costs. I don't recognize my truck as a commercial vehicle when not using it for hire, and is not used for commercial use in any since of the word commercial. In fact, I was very lucky to get my insurance company to insure it, seeing how they won't insure commercial vehicles. I would not have bought a C&C if I had known that, before the purchase, and would own a 07 5. 9 3500 DRW truck.