TN DOT now I know

Being in compliance is based on Gross Weight. By your interpretation you could build a stinger out of Upsadasium that empty weighs 3 lbs and run as heavy as you want all day long.

 

Nobody is questioning your weight, other than the fact that you are over 10k lbs with no medical card.

 

The speed limit for Trucks from Knoxville up to Morristown is 55 mph. You go 70 through there and youll get a serious violation ticket if they catch you.

 

Recaps are not required but its best to do them so you know you have enough hours to run.

 

Yea the 7,000 lbs is the gross weight that can be hauled on the trailer, including the trailer weight. I have an 18' with two 3500 lb axles, my trailer weighs 2000 lbs empty so I can haul up to a 5000 lb load. My gross weight cannot be over 7000 lbs (Trailer & Load). Thats how it was explained to me by the Manufacturer anyway. My title shows the gross weight of the trailer cannot be over 7000 lbs.
Im not registered Commercially because I use the trailer for my own personal business- Im not for hire. The Registration he has may allow him to haul that much weight on that trailer, I dont know how that works?

 

Its probably kinda like hauling heavy equipment, 80000 gross is the legal limit but if you get a permit for it, you can haul 150,000? lol

 

Actually the whole thread is the exact opposite. This thread is about wanting to be in the pseudo trucking business...hauling for hire, but without CDL, Medical, etc, etc. Go 80 and up and you actually need all that.

 

Good Luck with that. One way or the other the feds will be involved if it involves interstate commerce.