SideHillSoup
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We can talk all day about what are the chances of getting stopped for being over weight.
However the one item that know one has touched on is breaking of your vehicle. Just last spring a person driving a vehicle that was overweight lost his breaks coming down a mountain pass and was killed.
As one that lives and drives in the Mountains of BC daily, please leave you over weight rig at home and keep our highways safe for all of us.
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archie780
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Never been stopped or even got a second look while driving in BC (I'm all within #'s anyway) but have heard of a neighbour's friend who was apprently stopped and required to procure a 1 ton to bring his trailer to the Alberta border. Don't know if it was true or any specifics but I would tend to believe there are enough stories out there to make sure at the very least you don't look overloaded to draw attention to yourself. With thousands of 1/2 tons and 3/4 tons pulling 5'ers over the truck's GCWR, I tend to believe they won't bother you if you look safe. Everyone drives 3/4 tons around here and pretty much anyone with a couple of quads or sleds on a deck with a few jerry cans is overweight yet you don't see the RCMP waiting at the border with their ticket book.
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lonnie4801
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An overloaded vehicle is an unsafe vehicle. If you are the only one on the road then most people wouldn’t care if you killed yourself or not. However, there are other people on the road and I am one of them and I don’t want your unsafe vehicle killing me or my family. Take some responsible and get your vehicle safe before putting it on the road. That should be the primary consideration here, not whether you will get caught or not. Its actions like you are considering that cause accidents and give all RV’ers a bad rep.
Most of us travel to enjoy ourselves, not to help out the undertakers with their bottom line.
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FreeLanceing
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Thank you all for the replies. I should have no problem. Here in the states there are no laws pertaining to weight of your vehical as long as you are under the pounds per axel, which is like 20k drive, 12 k steer as I recall. Most people understand the dealers included,that the door sticker is a suggested number mostly comming from the legal dept. My rig runs level, stops, goes, e tires etc. Persoanly I have held a CDL license for 35 years without a ticket or accident. I know how to drive. I just ask so I don't run into unforseen surprises. I know they do things a little differently up there.
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sue.t
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On occasion in B.C. there are road checks where all traffic is pulled over and paperwork checked ... to ensure insurance, driver's licence, etc. is in order. If you're towing or carrying a camper, expect weights to be checked too.
DH was stopped at one of these on Hwy 97 near Prince George last fall. All traffic was being pulled over and funneled through the inspection. He was pulling a flatdeck trailer with a Jeep and other goods on it, a non-commercial load. The trailer was weighed. He was a few hundred pounds under his truck's rating and the trailer was within its rating too.
Also know of someone whose fifth wheel resulted in their truck being over its GVWR. They paid a fine and had to get a temporary permit to get the trailer home.
There really are weight police.
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canuck 1
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Unless you have BC plates or are a commercial vehicle do not even give it a second thought. The cops in Golden did have a thing for 1/2 tons with Alberta plates a few years back but not much since.
As a previous poster said "if you look over loaded you might get stopped" still holds true, where ever you drive
just remember that BC is broke and tickets are easy reveue so just watch what you are doing
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sue.t wrote:On occasion in B.C. there are road checks where all traffic is pulled over and paperwork checked ... to ensure insurance, driver's licence, etc. is in order. If you're towing or carrying a camper, expect weights to be checked too.
DH was stopped at one of these on Hwy 97 near Prince George last fall. All traffic was being pulled over and funneled through the inspection. He was pulling a flatdeck trailer with a Jeep and other goods on it, a non-commercial load. The trailer was weighed. He was a few hundred pounds under his truck's rating and the trailer was within its rating too.
Also know of someone whose fifth wheel resulted in their truck being over its GVWR. They paid a fine and had to get a temporary permit to get the trailer home.
There really are weight police.
I was at that same roadblock if it was just west of PG near mud river. Saw two rigs with trailers disconnected and very unhappy looking drivers on the cell phones. I was driving a F350 with 9.5 ft camper and towing a 20ft inboard jet boat. They did not even look at me. I had no worries as I had good #'s. The guy in front of me was disabled and driving a very nice custom pickup with hand controls. They hauled him over and checked him out very closly looking at paper work, licance ect. These road blocks do pop up in the PG area on ocasion. They do an all in one with conservation, fisheries, cops and Ministry of Transport/Vehical inspection all at one location. I drive between Prince Rupert to Spruce Grove Alberta several times a year and lived in Smithers/Terrace/Rupert my whole life. See these road blocks two or three times a year.
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SideHillSoup
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canuck 1 wrote:Unless you have BC plates or are a commercial vehicle do not even give it a second thought. The cops in Golden did have a thing for 1/2 tons with Alberta plates a few years back but not much since.
As a previous poster said "if you look over loaded you might get stopped" still holds true, where ever you drive
just remember that BC is broke and tickets are easy reveue so just watch what you are doing
Obviously you’re not driving on the Highways of the poor broke province of BC very often because I see people pulled over every summer by the DOT and the RCMP which both carry portable scales. I also see trailers and vehicles of all types parked beside the Highways after the fact, so it only is my guess as to why they were abandon there after their being stopped.
Maybe the laws of the rich province of next to BC are not enforced like weight restriction, and I’m not talking about commercial vehicles, because they are here.
Maybe you will sneak through BC with an over loaded over weight vehicle, and then again maybe you won’t.
Maybe you will travel a whole life with a over loaded over weight vehicle and not get caught, or maybe you won’t.
OR just maybe one time you will be traveling down a mountain pass and your nearing the bottom on a HOT August afternoon. You have had your foot on the brake pedal off and on for over 20 minutes now and you didn’t even think about using your transmission to keep you speed in check because you’re not from the Mountains and you didn’t know to do that.
Maybe the truck and camper rig your traveling in has a Harley loaded on the back because you like to ride your bike as well while camping
Maybe you have a wife and 2 kids in the truck as well.
Maybe your water tank is full in the camper and black and gray water tank are near full as well.
Maybe you just stopped at Safeway and filled the fridge and cupboards with more food which is actually more weight.
Maybe near the bottom of the Mountain Pass, after you have been applying your breaks on and off for 20 minutes you come around a Sharpe corner and you push on the break peddle a little harder and it goes nearly to the floor this time….
Maybe you freak a little in your mind, but don’t outwardly show any emotions to your family.
Maybe just after you take you foot off the mushy break peddle you think you have it beat, BUT you continue around that corner and there is a tourist from the rich province next to BC standing on the Highway taking a picture of a Bear, or an elk which there are plenty off around here.
You now slam on the breaks…………. and nothing happens. …………..
Maybe it would have been better to have been stopped by the RCMP or the DOT, because you just killed the guy with the camera and you are now swerving and trying to gain control back, and just when you think you have it licked. A fully loaded logging truck comes around the corner with a full head of steam on, however because of his weight he is still doing under the posted speed limit. However he is still going at a pretty good clip to help him climb the mountain pass and he and his fully loaded logging truck t-bones you and your family in the over loaded, over weight vehicle.
Maybe some of your family in the over loaded over weight vehicle will live, but I doubt it.
That is not the chance I or anyone wants to take with their family let alone everyone else on the Highway between your home and the accident site.
OH and just so you know the Logging truck driver, is a family man, he has worked in the bush and on the Highway his entire life without even a speeding ticket. He is ok physically however he now and for the rest of his life he has to live with the faces of the two people that were on the passenger side of the over loaded over weight vehicle, that he just plowed though.
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WEll said "Soup"!
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The was deprecating down to flaming so it's closed.
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