42 wrote:




Operating over GVW with a private non-commercial vehicle, while not a
great thing, isn't a huge issue and is unfortunately very common with
RVs, though RVers are getting more attentive to such things and visiting
the truck scales more frequently to verify their weights.

Not true, atleast in Oregon.
A pickup that is loaded such that it's GVW is over 8000# can be stopped and
the driver cited if the truck only has passenger car plates, like 90% do.
When the average 3/4 or 1 ton p/u weighs between 6000 and 7000 lbs, that
doesn't allow much for a legal load. This doesn't count a trailer, just the
weight of the truck, and only if it has passenger plates.
Ask me how I know this.
Paul

So fix the ridiculous law behind that. A non-commercial vehicle is a
non-commercial vehicle regardless of weight.