They are enforcing manufacture GCWR Commercial and private...per officer LaSage.

 

Where in Nevada is this taking place?

 

Stopped me coming into NV from Cal (eastbound on 80) they have a lot of officer patrolling there. He asked for my owners manual He could not find the GCWR So he went on the e.net and found it 24000 lbs. I was 23220 lbs The scary part is I was only hauling 11000 lbs 0n my 4900 lbs trailer.

I would think that would put all the 4 car haulers over and at least half the 3 car haulers.

 

They also had a Toyota FJ pulling a 2 axle flatbed car trailer with some stuff tarped on it pulled over.

 

Did they check to see if you had the proper endorsement for towing trailers over 10,000#?

 

Well Nevada is having a budget shortfall so why not look to create more revenue on the public. Guess they hope if the create a bunch then there departments won't get cut.

 

GCWR are a load of crap anyway along with the towing capacity that they advertise. The show 16,350 of towing capacity for a 3500. I weighed mine almost empty of fuel and NOTHING inside and if I ad the 16,350 I am over the gcwr. The oem's need to publish real #'s and not mislead the public or just publish towing capacity and not gcwr or just gcwr and not towing capacity.

 

The funny part here is, even if they search the net and find the gcwr,, how do they know what gear ratio you have? As a truck with 3.54 will have a lower gcwr than a truck with say 4.10 has.

 

Would they know the difference if I rebadged my 3500 as a 5500 ?

 

Rebadge, get the 5500 owners manual, and door sticker

 

who says you "have to" have the owners manual in the truck? To me this is just yet another excuse to pull drivers over.

 

He checked every thing lol,I have a commercial class a drivers licence,med. card and usdot#.

 

I think that there are a lot of people that pull horse trailers and 5th wheel trailers that are not aware of what is required. The dealers that sell the trailers don't know anything about endorsements ect.; they just want to sell a trailer.

 

Since when is GCWR a legal issue at all? It's more like a recommendation from the manufacturer. As was said, GCWR will go up on trucks if you have a bigger engine or a lower rear axle. Neither of those things has any effect on braking or handling.

I know a lot of people think that just getting a higher weight tax base license plate will keep them from being legally overweight (I've seen a beat up old Chevy 1500 with 15,000 GVW plates here in town) so that might be something they could be looking out for, but that's not the same as GCWR.

Trucks and trailers have their own seperate tire, axle, and overall weight ratings, and as long as they're at or below those ratings they are supposed to be able to safely support and stop themselves.

 

Nevada is notorious (they're worse than CA, IMO) about making stuff up to write tickets. I bet somebody could challenge the GCWR bit, but it would take a GOOD lawyer and a lot of money. Nevada courts make it VERY hard to fight any kind of ticket. NDOT won't comply unless you subpoena them to provide traffic engineering surveys, and even then they will drag their feet as much as possible.

I think as long as you're within either your axle or tire ratings, you should be fine.

Makes me glad that I weighed my setup -- my 05 dually plus my 5th wheel toyhauler, loaded for bear, is right at 23k, which I believe is what my GCWR is for a 6sp 05 4x4. So much for towing a car behind the 5th wheel unless I find a way to shed 3300 lbs of weight from the trailer...

Rob