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Weight and licensing requirements

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I'll "weigh-in" (can't resist the pun) on this issue. Why not!
In my former life as a gainfully employed owner of a car business, I also owned a couple of transports. Just for the experience, I obtained a CDL and took a few rounds to the coast, loading and unloading cars and getting through the weigh stations legally and "jamming them gears".
Car haulers are very sensitive to weight issues. Proper loading of the vehicles can keep you legal or cause you to be parked in the lot at the scales until you drop a car off.

For the most part, the employees at the scales are tolerant and friendly toward truckers who obey the law.

My experience was a tolerance toward overweight of a few pounds per axle. In one case, the employee had me shuffle the load get the weight right. No ticket, no hassle.

As to whether we will ever be required to stop at the scales, I seriously doubt it. There is an ever increasing number of trucks on the road and a real bottle neck at the scales. RV's are the very least of the problems, including our diesel powered units weighing up to 50,000 lb.
The 20,000 lb axle is far under rated as to it's real carrying capacity and a few lbs over certainly won't hurt anything, in my all too humble opinion.

Larry
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