| AAA weigh station page [message #229893] |
Fri, 15 November 2013 08:21  |
rcjordan
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http://drivinglaws.aaa.com/laws/weigh-stations/
Arkansas / Georgia / Iowa / Louisiana / Massachusetts / Minnesota / Nevada / New Jersey
The following vehicles must stop at weight/inspection stations: (2) passenger or specialty vehicles, whether single or in combination (towing a trailer) with GVWR of 10,000 lbs. or more;
Pennsylvania
(2) passenger and specialty vehicles towing large trailers; (3) large recreational vehicles
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| Re: AAA weigh station page [message #229894 is a reply to message #229893] |
Fri, 15 November 2013 08:32  |
kerry pinkerton
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I used to run up and down the interstates selling our machines. Pulled a 20' box trailer with a 1 ton dually. Never stopped at weigh stations. In thinking about it, I don't think I recall ever seeing an RV at a scale.
There was always a question about if we should stop or not. Technically I was commercial. A friend once told me, "You never know, all these guys go to the same training and all come away with different understandings of what they policy is."
I'll plead ignorance if they ever run me down.
Kerry Pinkerton - North Alabama
Had 5 over the years. Currently have a '06 Fleetwood Discovery 39L
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| Re: AAA weigh station page [message #229895 is a reply to message #229893] |
Fri, 15 November 2013 08:51 |
rcjordan
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>I'll plead ignorance if they ever run me down.
That's my plan. I just needed to know which state needs a good actor. Or maybe my wife crying (works every time).
In some other forums they caution about using recreational vehicles with company logos, makes sense.
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| Re: AAA weigh station page [message #229911 is a reply to message #229893] |
Fri, 15 November 2013 10:23 |
Bob de Kruyff
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| rcjordan wrote on Fri, 15 November 2013 07:21 |
http://drivinglaws.aaa.com/laws/weigh-stations/
Arkansas / Georgia / Iowa / Louisiana / Massachusetts / Minnesota / Nevada / New Jersey
The following vehicles must stop at weight/inspection stations: (2) passenger or specialty vehicles, whether single or in combination (towing a trailer) with GVWR of 10,000 lbs. or more;
Pennsylvania
(2) passenger and specialty vehicles towing large trailers; (3) large recreational vehicles
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I wonder if that pertains to interstate stations or secondary highways. Our trucks do not stop at any stations even when trailering.
Bob de Kruyff
78 Eleganza
Chandler, AZ
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| Re: AAA weigh station page [message #229958 is a reply to message #229893] |
Fri, 15 November 2013 18:11 |
Ken Burton
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I got a ticket many years ago for failing to stop at a weigh station in a Toyota pick up in the Great State of Illinois. The judge threw out the ticket.
Also got one for driving an S-10 in Chicago on a road that said "commercial vehicles prohibited".
Ken Burton - N9KB
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Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: [GMCnet] AAA weigh station page [message #229961 is a reply to message #229958] |
Fri, 15 November 2013 18:42 |
Ken Henderson
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Sure glad I can't think of ANY reason I might ever need to visit Ilinois
again!
And I'll probably stop for those weigh stations after the first time they
chase me down and ticket me for NOT stopping. Wonder how many hundred
times I've passed them?
Ken H.
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Ken Burton <n9cv@comcast.net> wrote:
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> I got a ticket many years ago for failing to stop at a weigh station in a
> Toyota pick up in the Great State of Illinois. The judge threw out the
> ticket.
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> Also got one for driving an S-10 in Chicago on a road that said
> "commercial vehicles prohibited".
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| Re: AAA weigh station page [message #229968 is a reply to message #229893] |
Fri, 15 November 2013 18:59 |
rcjordan
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> what is a LARGE RECREATIONAL VECHICLE?
Anything bigger than a GMC.
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| Re: AAA weigh station page [message #229994 is a reply to message #229958] |
Fri, 15 November 2013 21:06 |
Bob de Kruyff
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| Ken Burton wrote on Fri, 15 November 2013 17:11 |
I got a ticket many years ago for failing to stop at a weigh station in a Toyota pick up in the Great State of Illinois. The judge threw out the ticket.
Also got one for driving an S-10 in Chicago on a road that said "commercial vehicles prohibited".
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I once had to pay double the toll to go over the Mackinac bridge because I had a 30 series (1T) pickup. I guess the yokals can do whatever they want, but the accepted DOT definition of commercial is a vehicle engaged in business purposes other than for the purpose of transporting personal goods. If you are on an interstate, you will have the law behind you, but if not, look out for wide interpretations that suit the local budget short falls.
Bob de Kruyff
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Chandler, AZ
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| Re: AAA weigh station page [message #229996 is a reply to message #229964] |
Fri, 15 November 2013 21:09 |
Bob de Kruyff
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| Jim Galbavy wrote on Fri, 15 November 2013 17:52 |
So what is a LARGE RECREATIONAL VECHICLE? Where do they draw the line?
.....but having said that. ....... weren't the GMC Motorhome classified as a truck? We didn't have catalytic convertors in 1973.
jim galbavy
'73 x-CL ANNIE
Lake Mary, FL
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Most minivans and even the Chrysler PT Cruiser are trucks--that's not the issue. The important word is "commercial"
Bob de Kruyff
78 Eleganza
Chandler, AZ
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| Re: [GMCnet] AAA weigh station page [message #230006 is a reply to message #229961] |
Sat, 16 November 2013 03:34 |
Ken Burton
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| Ken Henderson wrote on Fri, 15 November 2013 18:42 |
Sure glad I can't think of ANY reason I might ever need to visit Ilinois
again!
And I'll probably stop for those weigh stations after the first time they
chase me down and ticket me for NOT stopping. Wonder how many hundred
times I've passed them?
Ken H.
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I NEVER stop in a motorhome or a pick up.
Let them chase me down if they want me.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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| Re: AAA weigh station page [message #230011 is a reply to message #229893] |
Sat, 16 November 2013 08:11 |
rcjordan
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>I NEVER stop in a motorhome or a pick up.
Though the Sprinter came titled as a passenger van, I put commercial truck plates w/ weight for towing a small backhoe on it. It has windows all the way around, so the profile is that of a van. No signs. No logos. I still blow by the weigh station just south of town on (in)famous US17, though I *might* pull in if I had the backhoe trailered.
>waved through
Back in the 60s we used to sell tons of plumber's lead. One "early-early morning" shipment was coming in on a 40' flatbed and it was severely overweight. But the ingots were spread out evenly over the deck, so it was only a few inches high. It was still early-early but NC had the scales open. The rig pulled in but the officer glanced at the flatbed and waved him through.
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| Re: [GMCnet] AAA weigh station page [message #230012 is a reply to message #230004] |
Sat, 16 November 2013 08:13 |
jhbridges
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Once upon a time in about '74 or '75 sevearl of us were headed South on I-75 in Florida in an Econoline van. White unmarked E200 'plumber's van'. Went past a weuigh station and some poot in a uniform ran out into the hiway and waved us toward the station. So I cut across the grass and turned on the lane only to be waved past by the poot in uniform by the scales. Never did figure out what the idea was.
--johnny
From: Jerry Sitzlar <jasitzlar@reagan.com>
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Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] AAA weigh station page
Back in the 80's with my large class c with toad coming across country to cover my behind I pulled into every weigh station on I40W and I10E only to be directed straight through and back on the road without stopping. Did the same thing with a Uhaul and towed vehicle from NE to SE with same results and that was recent. But things change daily.
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| Re: AAA weigh station page [message #230014 is a reply to message #229893] |
Sat, 16 November 2013 08:32 |
JohnL455
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And tolls? They never know. Technically we are 2 axles, the rear being an immaginary line through the bogies with a hinged swing leading and trailing that axle. I'm not commercial in the TZE so I motor past the coupe.
John Lebetski
Woodstock, IL
77 Eleganza II
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| Re: AAA weigh station page [message #230019 is a reply to message #230014] |
Sat, 16 November 2013 09:46 |
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| JohnL455 wrote on Sat, 16 November 2013 09:32 |
And tolls? They never know. Technically we are 2 axles, the rear being an imaginary line through the bogies with a hinged swing leading and trailing that axle. I'm not commercial in the TZE so I motor past the coupe.
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John,
You are actually correct, but he reason you state is in error. I don't have the definition handy anymore (and I am not all sure I could find it any time soon), but the real definition is based on how many places the wheels (however arranged) support the chassis. In the case of a GMC the rear is one (1/uno/un/ein/ichi), but don't trying to argue the point at a toll booth. They can manage to count tires in side view (barely) and can't manage to even count total tires on the ground.
The Mackinac Bridge has charge me for three axles for all but our first transit in 2006. So, we pay the same toll as a 43000# Greyhound bus. It is now 5$/"axle", when they boost it again (supposed to happen next year) to 7$ per non-passcar axle, it will actually be more cost effective for me to buy the additional Canadian gas and cross back into the states in Detroit at 5.00$ (USorCA). This is largely because we live so close to the crossing. I still hate bring the coach back into the states in Detroit, but it be worth just so I can write another note to the Mackinac Bridge people.
Some places have a scale in the road that approaches a toll station. We would win on that one.
Matt
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| Re: AAA weigh station page [message #230026 is a reply to message #230019] |
Sat, 16 November 2013 12:49 |
Carl S.
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Every year, at Thanksgiving Weekend, My son and I cross the state line from California back into Arizona, on I-10 at Yuma driving the pictured rigs:
http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/towing-etc/p37694-dune-trip-camp-2010.html
Before I got the GMC, we would drive the very commercial looking Dodge, loaded with tent camping gear and all our supplies for the sand dune trip, towing the trailer. I was always nervous about blowing by the weigh station, but always did it with no consequences.
A few years ago, I asked a truck driver friend about that. He said he wouldn't stop, and if they did chase him down, he would explain that it was a 'play weekend' and the truck was not being used for commercial purposes.
I have been doing this for close to 40 years with various trucks and motor homes.
Carl Stouffer
'75 ex Palm Beach
Tucson, AZ.
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| Re: AAA weigh station page [message #230029 is a reply to message #230026] |
Sat, 16 November 2013 13:50 |
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jaholland
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~ A County can permit the Police and
Magistrates (JPs)to take a percentage
of the revenue that is generated by
the Tickets in Illinois, S Carolina,
Texas. also some counties in Florida,
W Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas,
and Mississippi.
Christmas Day 1996 we were pulling a
towd westbound in North Carolina on
I-26 and, as usual, we bypassed the
weigh station and We Got A Ticket by
a disgruntled DOT Officer that had to
work on Christmas Day. He also ticketed
a trucker that was pulling an empty
flat bed trailer.
We were both taken to the Magistrate
and he promptly dismissed both of our
tickets ~
I purchased a 6cyl Cortez Motorhome in
1965, a V/8 Cortez in 1968, a GMC 26'
CanyonLands in 1973 and our current 26'
GMC Eleganza II in 1978 ~
This Was My First
And Only
Weigh Station Problem ~
~ Joe ~
/_]*[__][] *[__|] ~ * '73 TZE063V101887 "
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O----------OO--]* ~ '78 TZE168V100234 "
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" Joe & Lavelle " "
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'sweet home alebamy'
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