Overstepping the bounds or in line with expectations?

But it doesn't mean you. Your a private vehical. Same as Joe shmo with his civic

 

There was a time you could get a private A (Non commercial) meaning you can buy and drive whatever it is you own hauling your own stuff. "Not for Hire" and "Non Commercial Vehicle" or even the occasional FEMA Contract or Military support type signs in time of natural disaster or national emergency bypasses Commerical law. There was a time in my life we hauled war material for the ports which go on the ship for Korea in the spring-summer of 1994. It was a very intense time and Im pretty happy to say it was a happy time too because logbooks and other ordinary impediments to making money did not exist for as long the war freight kept rolling to the ports. I was happy to do it and keep doing it for as long the body held up.

Getting back to RV type vehicles, if you had a RV vehicle that is a combination and used airbrakes etc you will require a licensing capable of rolling however large, heavy and possibly even more than one trailer on your vehicle, whatever it was. It could be a cut down retired class 8 vehicle through the somewhat more common class 5's which are pretty light and purpose built better for 5th wheel RV work for example than the rather hulking and muscular 3 axle tractor which we all know wont have the usual power limitations etc in the mountains.

Most everyone acknowledges a RV is a home for most of the time. If you stuck a chemical toilet into the sleeper of your tractor you just became a RV for purposes of being able to camp somewhere extended periods of time.

I don't have too much experience around large coaches which are excessively large truck chassis, engines, wheels tires and airbraking equal to any of the very best large cars that I understood. But the very few that I have run into, usually had a high value, large dollar celebrity inside who more or less does not want to be disturbed. They just want to get the fuel and gone.

 

Source page
390.3 through 321.9
https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/title49/section/390.5

 

This is a what if now.

What if the scales just happen to be dipping fuel tanks? Now he is included. But he wouldnt ever know because he didnt pull in.
Now hes gotta stop down the road with a truck in a less than safe spot to explain the TTR lawyers said hes good to blow the coop.

This is a huge gray area, as far as what you do with a truck that is not an RV, not for commercial transit, or anything of the like.

Joe clearly has no issue stopping.
So whats the big deal? Lets get back on track to the original question asked by Joe.

Joe, you have a show truck that makes no money, i think the officer was doing his job and may have stepped outside his duties for a time. Thank all of us truckers who paved the way before you. All of us who break the law and now cause questions to be asked.

 

With all do respect, there is nothing useful in this link. Every question has to do with interstate commerce or accidents.

 

Do you have any at night with the chicken lights?

 

Yes it was directed to you.

Any signage has to be backed up by the registration not be a commercial registration, in your case there is only one other choice, RV. It is up to the enforcement officer to investigate and make that decision.

One thing I keep saying is some of us have gone through this crap before and it is something that has some ways around but one of them is not to just own and register it as a commercial vehicle - which it is.

Yes there is a clear answer, if you own a privately registered vehicle, you don't pull in. If you are registered as a commercial vehicle, you pull in.

IF you are not, you don't.

I drive a truck that is an RV, it is setup as an RV (simple just added a toilet mounted, a 5 gallon water source and a little sink to qualify) and I do not ever stop into a scale, but I've been pulled over many many times, my daughter also drives it and she got a ticket last week with it which was thrown out of court because it is an RV, she was nice to the cop and told her that it is an RV and she can drive an RV so too bad but still got a "driving a commercial vehicle without a license" ticket.

The FMCSA regulations DO NOT APPLY to either scale rules or if you pull in or not, they do not define what is or isn't a scale either.

Then register it in another state, I've done that with several vehicles including one of the trucks I used to drive around as an RV.

Right now I have a car I imported licensed in another state, I will convert it to this state next year because the plate will expire.

Once you get the title in hand, you go to the PA DMV with you insurance papers and transfer it to PA - Boom !! no inspection or conversion.

It is legal, completely legal.

If you want to know how, go call a vehicle title company that specializes in that, they will do it for you.

 

Ummm I want one of your magic aluminum magnets

 

Just out of curiosity, what modifications would you need for PA RV registration?.