Re: [MV] Highway truck scales

From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Mon Nov 15 2004 - 08:28:50 PST


My DOT here guys say there is no interest by them in these MVs....and by
directive.....they give the benefit of the doubt to the owner......

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Highway truck scales

> At 10:21 AM -0500 11/15/04, m35products wrote:
> >Why don't we all look at our respective state's regs and report to the
list
> >.
> >
> >Look up "registered weight" or similar wording and see what the
definition
> >is. I would be interested to know if other states use a different
standard.
>
> Its more complex. In my case, I was able to register my 5 Ton as a
> Collector Vehicle with such tags. Theres a max Net vehicle weight
> associated there (doesn't include the GVW as part of the class). But,
> the more odd thing is that the Commercial Tag office manager gave me
> the tag knowing I was outside the range. Kind of a caveat of the
> Beauracracy realizing that the law didn't quite fit my type and use
> and stepping aside anyhow. I hope it doesn't cause problems in the
> future, but I suspect that I'll help more than it hurts. I was very
> clear on how big the truck was and what my use was to be. She assured
> me that it would be non-commercial and that a PX tag (correct weight
> commercial tag for a 5 ton at 21 tons GVW) would be overdoing it.
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