Hot-Shot Load boards???

A guy at our company had a newer Ford with a gvwr of 13,500 lbs. He decided to change the tag to show it as 11,000.

The DOT now have a magic thing in their vehicles. Ever hear of a computer and internet?

They pulled up his truck and found the true vehicle weight. He spent the night in jail for fraud.

 

Think RETIRED is the clue.

 

Your buddy is full of it. You can register under but then you are limited to registered weight as to what you can haul.They do that in farming all the time to avoid HVUT and get cheaper plates.

 

I saw the ticket.

He changed the vehicle ID tag. Not the registered weight.

The DOT pulls up the pickup trucks and confirms the tags on them.

 

why didn't he just down rate the chassis?

 

Because it was a full fledged pickup truck not modified.

 

you just modify the GVWR, I've done it, perfectly legal.

 

Just what he thought too.

Indiana disagreed with him.

 

sounds like he changed the vin sticker? this would be a second sticker, a modification made.

 

He changed the sticker on the door that had the gvwr on it for 13,000 so he could pull larger trailers and stay under the 26,000 lb gvwr for no cdl.

They ran the truck on the internet and found the truck to have a gvwr higher than what he had on the sticker he had made to put on doing the modified gvwr. He will never try that again is what he said over the cost and all.