Are you tagged heavy enough?

Coming home from the Flats today I took a trip across the CAT scales
I am over my tag limit!
Already knew what my truck weighs from hauling some scrap. Know what my pop up weighs. So that left one question, what does my Jeep weigh.
Full propane, and Leslie and me in it, any guesses?
 
upnover said:
Coming home from the Flats today I took a trip across the CAT scales
I am over my tag limit!
Already knew what my truck weighs from hauling some scrap. Know what my pop up weighs. So that left one question, what does my Jeep weigh.
Full propane, and Leslie and me in it, any guesses?
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I'd say 18543?
 
Transferred the tags from the Chevy over to the F-250 this week. Glad I didnt get pulled going to the Flats b/c they are only set for 12k lbs. Time to go pay the man for some 17k plates.
 
Someone school me on farm tags. I have never even heard of them. It sounds like there is a minimum amount of land that you need to own in order to qualify? My lot is listed as 9.6 acres, so I am curious if that would qualify and what the cost difference is between a farm tag and the 15k weighted tag that I currently run.

upnover said:
So that left one question, what does my Jeep weigh.
Full propane, and Leslie and me in it, any guesses?
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5,600 lbs?
 
drkelly said:
Someone school me on farm tags. I have never even heard of them. It sounds like there is a minimum amount of land that you need to own in order to qualify? My lot is listed as 9.6 acres, so I am curious if that would qualify and what the cost difference is between a farm tag and the 15k weighted tag that I currently run.
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The State of NC definition of a "bona fide farm", which would qualify a farm for exemption from certain County (not City) Zoning Regulations, says something along the lines of "production of a crop or livestock that has a defined market and can be sold". That's paraphrasing from memory though. I would guess that same definition would carry over into the Farm Tag exemption, but I'm not totally sure.

Chip, I guess 6,001#.
 
lockedup5 said:
If I'm not mistaken you don't have to be weighted to pull a boat unless you fish for profit.
What got this started I was pulling my skid steer 9,300 lbs, trailer 3k lbs, truck 9,500lbs, and a couple hundred pounds in tools. Totaling right around 22,000 lbs. He asked me what I was tagged for and I said 20k lbs. He looked at my setup back and forth and said I believe your alright. He didn't even pull the scales on me. Holy carap did I get lucky considering I just raised my tag limit from 17k a couple months ago. Then I asked him about my buddy that got a ticket in morganton pulling a rock crawler he said yep I wrote him for 3k over his tag limit which is only about $60 bucks. That isn't bad but I bet he gets his tag run by that same cop if he ever sees him around town again to see if he raised his tag weight.
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I carry a 13k tag. My total load (truck, trailer, jeep), according to the rock quarry scales is about 12,500 which leaves me with about 500 pounds for whatever. I have always wondered what the penalty would be if I got 1 or 2 hundred pounds over the tag limit. What I am seeing, according to your post, is that if 3k over the limit is only $60, then I don't have too much to worry about. Does my logic sound right?
 
Chip I guess the jeep wieghs......7200lbs. The carry all was having a heck of a time with it at the Farm.
 
I am tagged at 26k right now. Probably going to bump back down but needed the extra weight for hauling out west to KOH. You can get a pro-rated amount if you bump weight up later.
 
I'm pretty sure if you run farm tags you must be doing farm business. Hauling a rock crawler six counties away doesn't count. Most cops would probably overlook it but in you were to ever be in an accident your insurance wouldn't have to pay. That's the way I understood it when I looked into farm tags.
 
I know I'm over. I need to just pony up to a 17K tag and stop looking in my mirrors for the blue light special.
 
Need some advice on how much my set up will weigh so I can get the right weight tag. I just bought a Dodge 2500 V10 extended cab long bed; this will obviously be the tow vehicle. I am pulling my 20 ft Kaufman wood deck trailer that I think weighs 2500 empty. My rig is a 1993 Grand Cherokee, with steel bumpers front and rear, 35" tires, long arms, frame stiffeners, and lot of other heavy junk :)

I think the jeep probably weights around 6k and the trailer is 2.5k, but how much does the Dodge weight?
 
Assuming 4wd, my guess is the Dodge weighs 6800#.

What do I win?
 
BigClay said:
Need some advice on how much my set up will weigh so I can get the right weight tag. I just bought a Dodge 2500 V10 extended cab long bed; this will obviously be the tow vehicle. I am pulling my 20 ft Kaufman wood deck trailer that I think weighs 2500 empty. My rig is a 1993 Grand Cherokee, with steel bumpers front and rear, 35" tires, long arms, frame stiffeners, and lot of other heavy junk :)
I think the jeep probably weights around 6k and the trailer is 2.5k, but how much does the Dodge weight?
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I own a 2001 Dodge Ram, quad cab, short bed, 2500, CTD, and it weighed 6,760 lbs on the scale here at work. I know the CTD motor is heavy, but a bet a V10 long bed truck weighs about the same as mine.

I bet your 93 GC weighs closer to 5,000 lbs

7,000 lbs for truck with spare parts, tools, cooler, camping gear etc

5,000 lbs for GC

2,500 lbs for trailer

= 14,500 lbs

I would probably go with a 15,000 lb tag to be safe.
 
BigClay said:
Need some advice on how much my set up will weigh so I can get the right weight tag. I just bought a Dodge 2500 V10 extended cab long bed; this will obviously be the tow vehicle. I am pulling my 20 ft Kaufman wood deck trailer that I think weighs 2500 empty. My rig is a 1993 Grand Cherokee, with steel bumpers front and rear, 35" tires, long arms, frame stiffeners, and lot of other heavy junk :)
I think the jeep probably weights around 6k and the trailer is 2.5k, but how much does the Dodge weight?
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My 22' kaufman is 2920. I'd figure pushing 7k for your truck, maybe 4.5 or 5k for the trail rig.

Figure at least 1k-1500 for passengers, fuel, camping gear, coolers, tools, spare parts, etc.

I'm tagged at 17k, and have snuck up on it a few times. I pull with a reg. cab F250SD 4x4. I'm lucky that I have access to a client's truck scale on the weekends, so can slip by when I'm loaded up and check it.
 
We pull heavy tags for all of our work trucks, all 1/2 and 3/4 tonnes. the 1/2's all have 10,000 pound tags and teh 3/4's all have 17,000 tags. we don't pull much more than a 45kva genset and usually tote only a pallet of cement (3,000#) but it is not worth saving a few bucks on tags.
 
Went with 16k plates today just to be safe. Thanks for all the help! :beer:
 
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