View Single Post
Old 10-12-2018, 06:49 PM   #16
Snoking
Senior Member
 
Snoking's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Lake Stevens
Posts: 764
Quote:
Originally Posted by CWSWine View Post
Washington state DOT came back and told me that you can not increase the GVWR and the DOT Classification by registering the truck over its GVWR and Class 2 DOT Class Rating to DOT Class 3 rating of over 10,000 GVWR. That was from the Legal Department of WDOT.

I don't think the lady behind the country at AZ DMV is certified to change the GVWR of a vehicle since DOT has very strict requirements on changing of GVWR after a vehicle is once titled including test requirements and engineering certifications. If they could do they verify that you do not exceed your Axle Ratings or Tire Ratings by assigning higher ratings.

Dot Requirements for increasing the GVWR is contained in 49 CFR 567.7
I think you were asking a different question than using a vehicle on the road and paying the weight fees to do that. Washington State routinely license pickups at weights that are higher than the manufacturers GVWR.

Washington State takes the tare weight of the truck times one and one half and then rounds up to the next even K. My 2001.5 8800GVW RAM was licensed to 12K. My 2015 with 11,700 GVWR is licensed to 12k and I can pay a little more and license it to 14K. Which allows me to operate it at those weights, as long as I do not exceed the bridge weight laws referenced in (a) and (b) below. No pickup is going to exceed these laws. States like Wa and Az collect weight fees based of the load hauled. If stopped you are normally directed to go purchase the addition tonnage in Washington according to our resident commercial hauler on the forum. Again, thing declared weight and fees paid.

RCW 46.16A.455
(3) Motor truck, road tractor, truck, and truck tractor - exceeding six thousand pounds empty scale weight. Every truck, motor truck, truck tractor, and tractor exceeding six thousand pounds empty scale weight registered under this chapter or chapter 46.87 RCW must be licensed for not less than one hundred fifty percent of its empty weight unless:
(a) The amount would exceed the legal limits described in RCW 46.44.041 or 46.44.042, in which event the vehicle must be licensed for the maximum weight authorized for the vehicle; or
(b) The vehicle is a fixed load vehicle.

(a) and (b) deal with wheel base and tire width, think federal bridge weight laws.
__________________
2019 Laredo 225MK for travel. Bighorn 3575el summer home in Washington, Park Model with Arizona Room for winters.
2015 RAM 3500 SRW CC SB Aisin Laramie
Snoking is offline   Reply With Quote