They are checking manufacture Gross Vehicle rating and if you are over they will ticket you. Example: 3/4 ton pickup at GVW 8500 and a trailer with a GVW of 8500 for a total combined GVW of 17000. So if you have a tractor that weights 9000 and your empty weight on the truck/trailer is 8000 lbs you are legal if you have a nine ton license on your truck. Most don"t have that heavy of license and many haul heavier than that. Most around here just have a goose neck stock trailer and a goose neck flat bed. They then run base #10000 farm tags and where fine. Now they are writing tickets everyday for GVW violations. My pickup and trailer weight #14500. So I can only haul seven ton legal: #8500 pickup and #20000 trailer GVW rating. I then have to have a fourteen ton license and CDL because it is over #26000.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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