So I have noticed a few of these signs around some of the towns where I live and realized that it must be illegal for me to drive down these streets, this one is in the path of a major shopping mall and class-8 drive it regularly, I also see them in residential areas.



I certainly don't think I can hurt the street if trash trucks don't break them.

Do they mean 3-tons of weight or a 3-ton truck, old Cadillac's weigh more than 6000 pounds.

This is in West Covina, CA.

Have you seen any where you live?

Jim

 

I've seen a few around my area. Majority of them being 3-ton limits. I used to be in excess of 3-tons with the flatbed, roughly 6,900lbs. full of fuel and me in it. Since I went to a standard bed, the truck shed close to 1,000lbs. putting it just shy of 5,900lbs. full of fuel and me in it.

I never worried about exceeding the limit. I figure they don't pay attention to the "light-duty" trucks so much as they would the heavy-duty, tractors and other equipment. I assume the truck drivers tend to learn the routes throughout the cities over time either from experience or from their training prior to receiving their CDL.

 

I always thought they meant by the trucks classification not weight.

 

I have had my CDL for almost 38 years and have never given weight a second thought while driving my personal vehicles and somehow towing an 80 foot long articulated coach through the streets of Los Angeles behind a longbed wrecker with EXEMPT on the plates I never had any problems except going the wrong way on a one way street.
Jim

 

Perhaps they mean 3 tons per axle?

 

I felt so bad parking my 2500 there

 

I think it's meant to keep heavy trucks from using it as a shortcut.

 

Your vehicle is classified as a "Pickup" and therefore does not adhere to any rules for "trucks". The loophole being if you flatbed the truck or have a cab n chassis the state classifies you as a "truck" and no longer a "pickup".

There is a cool side to this loophole as well. You can take a class 8 Peterbilt 359 (or any other flavor big rig of your choice), bolt a pickup bed on it, and then register it as a pickup. No CDL required, for personal use only. That is, if you think the 5 - 12 mpg (depending on engine) is going to be worth it

 

I personally would not worry about it (as far as driving a pickup on those posted roads assumming it is not licensed as commercial). I suspect it has more to do with the citing officer than anything. While they may be wrong you still have to deal with going to court etc.

Cases in point
In Kansas City there was a road marked no trucks I was a passenger in the El Camino which got pulled over and cited for driving a truck on a road posted no trucks. While we both looked dumbfounded at each other he still had to go to court to fight it. Vehicle registration did not call it a truck, it was licensed as an auto as it should have been. Judge shook his head, case dismissed.
Where I work the only way into the parking lot of one of our stores the road is posted no trucks over 11k local deliveries excepted. Driver got pulled over and cited (12k truck). Explanation to citing officer did not help mind you this was in a strip mall type center and we had multiple semi's pull in everyday for deliveries. Went to court to fight it case dismissed.

 

How totally bizarre! I was thinking the EXACT same thing last week!
My truck, empty, weighs 8,950 lbs!
The guy at the weigh station was amazed.
I believe it means capacity, not gross weight, however, I do not Know.
The "over 1/2 ton" sign makes me think that is capacity, because I have never seen a functional pickup that weighed less than a thousand pounds!

 

Around here, and in Ohio (don't ask why I know), any reference to weight means the greatest of: 1) combined GVWR; 2) weight listed on ownership and/or insurance; 3) actual measured weight.

 

I have seen that truck in nor cal that video was shot in the feather river canyon. I also see alot of signs that give lbs. not tons, like "no vehicles over 6000 lbs"