$590.00 fine yesterday for not enough license

[CUMMINZ]

I want all of you to suffer through this. Here in North Carolina.

I have 33k on my dually. 32k has been towing RV heavy. I have my truck tagged for 10k. RV towing is exempt on tag requirement in NC. I almost never tow a heavy utility trailer. Maybe 3 times a year. And this is intown. Never interstate or county driving.

My daughter needed some crossties. I rented a 16' double axle trailer from local rental company. Had tie crane load 3 bundles of 8' ties on my trailer. No load for the truck but max for trailer.

My wife and I drove 10 miles toward Charlotte and passed HP on entrance ramp to interstate. He immediately pulled out and caught up with me and pulled to my left rear I suppose to read my tag. He called it in and saw I had 10k tag. Would have been fine for towing my 16k RV but not this 9.9k trailer. He pulled me over and directed me to the next truck stop where he pulled out the scales and weighed each axle, measured length of front truck axle and center of trailer axles.

He wrote me a ticket for 9900#s over my truck tag. He checked the GVW tags on trailer and truck. I was under the GVW ratings of rig but did not have enough tag weight. Cost me $590.00...

He was not interested in GCVW...

I found out these facts: For North Carolina @ this point forget RV towing

Class C license

You can drive truck up to 26k GVW
You can drive truck up to 26k GVW and trailer to 10k GVW
You can drive motor coach with GVW of 26k

Class B license

You can drive motor coach with GVW over 26k

Class A license required for any truck with trailer over 10k GVW
Class A license required for any truck with RV behind over 10k GVW

Any truck pulling RV for recreation is not required to pull in weight station.
If you are in truck and pulling an RV over 10k GVW and get stopped or go through license check and do not have Class A license you are subject to ticket.

This has blown most of my thinking.

We have beat to death GCVW and we do not need to legal wise. Safety wise (yes)

He mentioned lawyers and accidents and liability. They look at GVWs of both vehicles not GCVW.

Officer said this is the most misunderstood law out there. Not the issue of weight but the license you are required to have.

Most accidents we are seeing are probably because of not being aware of your duty driving, Class C drivers like myself that might could ignore an accident if I went through training and getting Class A license. It might make me aware of a few dangers I have not heard of.

OK, beat me up!!



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