Re: DMV rules, weight limits, CDL rules, etc

Posted by Buzzman72 on June 08, 2006 at 09:17:41 from (4.224.252.47):

In Reply to: Re: DMV rules, weight limits, CDL rules, etc posted by the tractor vet on June 08, 2006 at 07:47:01:

A few years back, I borrowed a friend's dually pickup and gooseneck flatbed to go from just outside Louisville, KY to near Loraine, OH to pick up a '51 International pickup truck. I never thought about GCVW...until I pulled into a rest stop in Ohio and saw a bunch of Buckeye bears eyeballing the rig I was driving. It was only THEN that I thought about checking the Indiana tags on the truck and the trailer. Truck was licensed for 11,000#, and trailer for 16,000#...so I waited for the bears to leave before I took the rig back out on the road, since I didn't/don't have a CDL.

Coming home loaded, I probably still wasn't anywhere NEAR heavy enough to be over the weight limits for needing a CDL, but I'm just glad the "chicken coops" were closed, so I didn't have to test that theory. Needless to say, I've never borrowed that rig since, because I couldn't have afforded to paid all the fines, etc., that not having a CDL would've cost me.

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