07-22-2019, 03:40 AM
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Senior Member
Brand: Thor Motor Coach
Model: A.C.E. 27.2
State: Indiana
Posts: 1,842
THOR #14698
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Originally Posted by Diana&Kerry
Wow!
I don’t think the weight police will come after us if we are over on the scales. Most weigh station operators won’t know or care. They are after the trucker who said he was hauling 35,000 lb and was hauling 50,000 lb. (We have had to off load over weight trucks.) Before anyone comments, 99.99% of the truckers are carrying the correct loads. From another blog, it looks like they charge between $10 to $20 to weigh the rig.
I think the weight limit has to do with design, which includes the chassis, structure, transmission, engine, and the hitch. I agree with whoever commented that why one rv max weight is 23,000, while another is 26,000 lb, and it is the same chassis, transmission, and engine. A civil and a mechanical engineers may be able to explain it better. The question is how much over design did the engineers build into the RV.
Kerry
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You are correct the "weight Police" won't come after you for being a few hundred pounds overweight in a an RV. The problem, God forbid, comes in if you are involved in an accident. The insurance companies will say it was your fault for driving an unsafely loaded vehicle.
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