Well I spent the better part of a half hour looking through the DMV site for instructions on how to get a weighted plate. I know I'm old and slow but damn. Never could even get a human on the phone. Can anyone lend some advice?
Weighted license plate
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Go to your local tag office. Tell them how much weight you want on it. Take out your wallet and start paying. I hate paying for my 10,000 # tag every year!
Go to your local tag office. Tell them how much weight you want on it. Take out your wallet and start paying. I hate paying for my 10,000 # tag every year!
Ditto, sucks to pay for it but worth it not to get busted over!
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Like other stated go to dmv office and tell them the weight you want and open your wallet. Depending what your hauling and how often you may want to think about the risk vs reward or if you just want to just get it close so fine is not as bad. I dropped from 26k down to 20k and it gets in the pocket book enough but I very rarely needed the full 26k or traveled very far from home with it so savings over several years was worth the risk.
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Pick up some of these.
https://www.amazon.com/VTR-Adhesive...=adhesive+wheel+weights&qid=1572471890&sr=8-5
https://www.amazon.com/VTR-Adhesive...=adhesive+wheel+weights&qid=1572471890&sr=8-5
The officers that have pulled me with the mobile scales were not in a joking mood -Idon't think they would appreciate your humor.
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Heck, don't even know how to figure it. Have a Silverado 1500 and a Tesh 5x10 single axel trailer with whatever I can load on it.
Go to a scrap metal place and see if you can roll over their scales unloaded then add what you think an average load would weigh.
I read it wrong at first. My initial thought was "screw it down and it won't flap about"... Oh, he means for a heavier truck.The officers that have pulled me with the mobile scales were not in a joking mood -Idon't think they would appreciate your humor.
Probably wouldnt worry about it to much if thats all. Long as truck is covered with a standard tag and it will be noted on registration if not. There usually watching more for big trucks and 3/4 and 1 ton trucks pulling skid steers and mini excavator something obviously heavy.
It's what got me educated on this. DMV pulled me years ago and said he could tell I was over but couldn't get any scales available. It was on a Sunday. Said if he saw me again without a weighted tag ... well you probably can guess the rest.
What does the current registration say as the shipping weight. start there. Add about 1k for the trailer empty. then whatever you may think you may haul = tag weight
IMHO I would 3k over shipping weight of the truck.
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Agreed ∆∆∆
I run a 21k# on my pick up and a 86k# on my work truck...
Vehicle plus the max gross of the trailer you're pulling.
FYI, Highway Patrol can and will write a ticket for the max potential load that you could be pulling if you don't have enough tag weight...
Example:
7k# truck pulling a "7ton" equipment trailer with 500# on it gets pulled, and has a 10k# tag (to cover truck and utility trailer) HP is writing a 21k# ticket because you have the potential to be that over weight... Ask me how I know.
BS but true
So if I rob the bank and get arrested with $2,500 of the funny money,
will they charge me with $100,000 because I had the potential to get away with that much?
Or write me a ticket for 100MPH when I was only doing 80?
will they charge me with $100,000 because I had the potential to get away with that much?
Or write me a ticket for 100MPH when I was only doing 80?
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Does that really say if I have a 6K tag I can weigh 15K?
Or does it mean I can weigh up to 9K?
9k total
FWIW, and maybe I'm in violation but I don't have a weighted tag on my F250. I pull our 7500 lb travel trailer and occasionally my single axle utility trailer and have never had an issue. My understanding is that unless you are pulling commercially or for a business so to speak you don't have to have a weighted tag. I've done this for a couple of years, had Highway Patrol pass me and all has been well. I'm not so sure you need a weighted tag for what you are doing. I rarely see them on 1/2 tons. Not an expert. I would go to the DMV office in Mocksville and get it straightened out before you drop the cash.
Maybe I'm outa kilter here but my Ram 2500 weights 8800# all by itself with only a Speedo on.only
I have a 10,000 plate just so they won't screw with me.
if you get busted over wight is it a pricey check?
Commercial or personal its required. you have been lucky.
Sounds like you have just enough weighted tag to cover the truck
Doubt it my guess just lucky and never pulled anything to draw much attention like a larger equipment trailer by the right person and keep in mind not all highway patrol are focused on truck weights to my understanding. My guess is truck itself exceeds standard tag weight limit. My old regular cab 2500 ram diesel I transfered a tag from a jeep mid year and when I got the registration card it had printed on it in bold letters “tag not sufficient for vehicle weight”. I put weighted tags on it next renewal but just hoped I didn’t get pulled till then since it had that note on it I knew I was getting a ticket if stopped.
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I am like you. I put the weighted tags on my truck because I went to the dump one day and they weigh you in and out. I ask once what mine weighed and the little S15 I was driving at the time was over 5500 so it was 1500 over the 4000 lb tags. And yes over weight tickets are spencive.
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do yourself a favor, establish a business registered in another State and register your vehicles to an LLC based in that state. NC DMV is a bloodsucking waste of former postal workers.
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So this got me thinking, do I need to worry using a 04 1500 pulling a 2 horse bumper pull trailer, trailer weighs 2500 and with a 1700lb and 1100lb horse in it.