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Re: [RC] Flatbed trucks and Weigh Stations - Dyane Smith


Well, no farm name and no money for speciality painting anyway.  Wish it
were that easy.

Thanks, Truman.

Dyane

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Dyane Smith" <sunibey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "abigail Madden" <run_rosko_run@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Jeanne Slominski"
<endurancemorgan1@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] Flatbed trucks and Weigh Stations



Dyane Smith wrote:


Great, Abigail, I will take your good advice.  Should I take it to the
local office or to a weigh station?

Dyane


Unfortunately if you ask 10 people that "should know," you will probably
get 10 different answers. I went thought this process some time back. In
FL if you drive a vehicle wider than 80 inches you need a class D
license. The normal license for a car is a class E. A F350 dual real
wheel truck is over 80 inches wide so it requires a class D. However,
although it has the same GVWR, a SRW F350 is less than 80 inches so it
only requires a class E license.

If you pull a RV travel trailer (or LQ horse trailer certified as an RV)
you can pull it with damn near anything with a class E license including
a GVWR Freightliner. So if you have a DRW F350 you are fine pulling it
with a class E license but as soon as you unhook you have to have a
class D license. The FL DOT agent I was talking to about it told me "not
to worry since 99% of the people out there dirve dullies without a class
E and the only time it is ever enforced is if the turk is used in
association with someone's business, i.e. commerical." He went on to say
that he doubted if 1% of the FHP knew the difference. He smiled and said
"as long as you don't put the name of your farm on the side of your
truck - you are fine."  I went away from this experience scratching my
head - needless to say.

Truman

-- 

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite
of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."    Niels Bohr
-- Nobel Laureate, Physics









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Replies
Re: [RC] Flatbed trucks and Weigh Stations, abigail Madden
Re: [RC] Flatbed trucks and Weigh Stations, Dyane Smith
Re: [RC] Flatbed trucks and Weigh Stations, Truman Prevatt