I don’t recall ever stopping for a weigh station. We had a rental business and were hauling all sorts of stuff, mainly generator sets, on the Landoll trailer. We had some smaller gooseneck trailers we hauled wit the same truck, too.
-D > On Jul 5, 2020, at 7:07 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > On Sun, July 5, 2020 6:43 pm, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: >> Privately owned and licensed separately from the trailer, maybe? It was a >> single axle day cab if that mattered. Not something I ever had to deal >> with. This was in the late 70s/early 80s if it mattered. I drove it all >> of the time picking up and dropping off equipment, never had a problem. > > Still sounds like a modern day class 8 CDL rig, but nowhere near the > 80,000lb max limit. In Michigan, we'd have needed a commercial license > with a class A (truck/trailer) endorsement by the late 1970s if not > earlier. There were also endorsements for straight trucks over 26,000lb > and for having 8 (or was it 10?) passengers. > > Did you stop at or drive by any open weigh stations along the way? > Seems like stopping would get interesting (show us your class A license > and bills of lading), and not stopping would get very interesting. Maybe > the weigh stations were only for freight haulers and not for fixed loads > back then? > > At least once, I think my commercial license helped get me out of a ticket > while delivering pizza (which technically did not require a special > license but many in LE weren't happy with the law). > > Just in the last 20 years it's gotten worse in stages, to where a friend > of mine won't even haul his own fork lift to a job because he can't do it > without putting DOT numbers on his pickup and stopping at weigh stations. > Now he just rents fork lifts and man lifts, has them delivered to the job > sites, and adds the rental to his job quotes. > > He bought a 28" box truck with roll up sides back in 2002 so he could > deliver entire conveyor systems, then around 2005 he sold it and bought a > 3500 pickup, found out the pickup with GVWR >10k was a CDL item with his > equipment trailer behind it, bought a 2500 pickup to replace it, and then > threw in the towel a couple years after they made him stencil his 2500 and > stop at weigh stations. Fedgov has gotten good at prevention of interstate > commerce, at least for the small companies with fewer than ten employees, > they make it not worth the hassle to do business. Now he mostly does > repairs and design consulting instead of installations, and for now the > DOT still lets him haul his own butt around in a pickup truck without > stopping at weigh stations. > > Mitch. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
