trucks with more than 6 wheels

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When I'm cruising down the highway in my SRW Ram towing a dual axle trailer...am I considered a truck with more than 6 wheels? I noticed signs in GA and SC that said trucks with more than 6 wheels had to do certain things, basically stay out of the hammer lane(s)
 
Do you have more than six wheels? Sounds to me like you've got eight. But I'm no engineer. :flipoff2:

There's a spot in Atlanta where it says you can't be in the left four lanes. FTS.
 
Most all states have the left lane limit, may be a federal thing, on interstates. NC, says-more than 3 axles. Generally speaking, the rules are only applied to trucks over 2.5 tons, as with weigh stations.
That doesn't mean some officer, with a bad attitude, couldn't right you. It amazes me how many 1 tons, or more, with commercial tags, pass right by the weigh stations! :D Never seen 1 get stopped!
 
I would consider this is for Commercial vehicles, I use all the lanes and I'm running 8 on the tow and 4 on the being towed. On I-77 S. We use the HOV lane in our coach and never had a prob with that either.
 
I was working in Tennessee one day and got stopped by a dmv man. He give me down the road about not stopping at weigh stations and he informed me I was required to have a log book. He also said I needed to have my non-airbrake CDL if driving out of state. I was driving a 2003 ram 3500 dual wheel truck pulling a 16' tandem axle enclosed trailer. He lectured me for the better part of and hour and then let me go with a warning. The funny thing was he never checked my tag. It was only rated for 9000lbs and with the tools and people just the truck had to be over 10,000lbs!!! The trailer was easily another 7k or 8k.
 
rodney eppes said:
It amazes me how many 1 tons, or more, with commercial tags, pass right by the weigh stations! :D Never seen 1 get stopped!
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Chicken coop cops will run down duallys. They'll usually look the other way if it's got a pickup bed on it, but if it's a flat bed or a dump, you'll get chased down sooner or later, and twice daily in Virginia and Maryland. Weigh station rules vary from state to state, but typically anything over 3/4 ton (not counting RVs and private vehicles) has to pull through and weigh. Of course, for all the crap about people getting stopped on the road by NC DOT officials, NC weigh stations are notoriously lax. They're not even open most of the time.

Same thing for the lane restrictions... RVs aren't "trucks" per the DOT, so no problem. I've seen plenty of trucks ignore lane restrictions, though... and I've done it a time or two myself.
 
I know well not to get caught in Tennessee with a transfer tank plumbed into the lines supplying the engine!
 
NCJeeplover said:
I was working in Tennessee one day and got stopped by a dmv man. He give me down the road about not stopping at weigh stations and he informed me I was required to have a log book. He also said I needed to have my non-airbrake CDL if driving out of state. I was driving a 2003 ram 3500 dual wheel truck pulling a 16' tandem axle enclosed trailer. He lectured me for the better part of and hour and then let me go with a warning. The funny thing was he never checked my tag. It was only rated for 9000lbs and with the tools and people just the truck had to be over 10,000lbs!!! The trailer was easily another 7k or 8k.
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I wouldn't argue the point, on the side of the road, but he sure as Hell, doesn't know WTF, he's talking about!:flipoff:
 
Your Hot Dog Guy! said:
I know well not to get caught in Tennessee with a transfer tank plumbed into the lines supplying the engine!
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Enlighten me. I was just considering doing that very thing.

I have gotten to the point that I carry copies of the laws that apply to me in a manilla envelope. I had a rat rod that challenged every cop's sensibilities that laid eyes on it. I would just politely pass them the (laminated for weather) page copied from the State Attorney Generals website stating whats right and wrong.
 
A transfer tank is just that, it is not DOT approved as a Fuel Tank. There is a big difference. We used a aluminum tank off of a Freightliner and cut the length down and then plumbed it into the hose on the fillerneck on the Dodge with a cutoff valve, filter, and a 12v valve. cutoff valve was to change the filter and the 12v valve was on a switch on the dash with a idiot light, this was wired to the ignition. It could not be left on by accident and overfill this way. The vent was plumbed into the factory vent line from the fillerneck, this kept everything clean. In the winter we added a 12v pump because the fuel flowed a little slower. We did this so we could run to Moab together several years ago since I held 150 gallons. A friend of mine paid a $1,000 fine for using a transfer tank in Tn. plumbed into his . Check the price difference between a transfer tank and a auxillary tank.
 
Your Hot Dog Guy! said:
A transfer tank is just that, it is not DOT approved as a Fuel Tank. There is a big difference. We used a aluminum tank off of a Freightliner and cut the length down and then plumbed it into the hose on the fillerneck on the Dodge with a cutoff valve, filter, and a 12v valve. cutoff valve was to change the filter and the 12v valve was on a switch on the dash with a idiot light, this was wired to the ignition. It could not be left on by accident and overfill this way. The vent was plumbed into the factory vent line from the fillerneck, this kept everything clean. In the winter we added a 12v pump because the fuel flowed a little slower. We did this so we could run to Moab together several years ago since I held 150 gallons. A friend of mine paid a $1,000 fine for using a transfer tank in Tn. plumbed into his . Check the price difference between a transfer tank and a auxillary tank.
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how did they catch you? did they actually see the plumbing? the reason i ask is that i met a guy once that had a transfer tank but no farm tags and around here most ppl who have transfer tanks use them for farming applications. he also didnt fit my stereotype for someone that owned a business.. he had a transfer thank plumbed in to his fuel lines so he could run off road diesel out of the tank and still have untainted in his primary tank. the more ive thought about it, the risk way out weighs the reward considering the horror stories ive heard about people getting caught running off road fuel
 
The possibility of cheating the taxes with the off road diesel out of the transfer tank sounds like the motivation for the DMV to get interested in it. Even if you have taxed fuel in the 2nd tank, If they pull you and see something of this nature, a ticket is probably going to get inked.I guess they could sample the fuel from a filter if they wanted to. That dye is some nasty stuff and stays in there a long time. Dad has had a 100 gallon aluminum tank in the back of his tow rig for 15 years. It is the sole fuel tank for the truck and he has never got any DMV crap over it.

I was thinking about using the system Hot Dog was talking about, where you could fuel your factory tank on the run. Looks like the 1K fine will make me to do something else. Guess I will add a hydrogen fuel cell... they cant write a ticket for something they cant spell!:D
 
Speaking of cheating the taxes... Is anybody willing to admit to running used motor and transmission oil in their diesel? I know several folks who double filter it and run it 50%.

I was racing at ZMax drag strip last year and saw all this black smoke coming out of my buddy's motorhome genset. I beat on the door to let him know his generator was screwed up, and he just belly laughed at me. He was burning 75 percent used oil and it was smoking like crazy. He said he drove 10,000 miles racing last year and was spending 75 percent less on his fuel. He carries drums of oil in his trailer and fuels it up at the track. Got me to thinking...:rolleyes:
 
I know a member that will mix anything that "may" burn with his desiel. Smells like fries when he stops by.
 
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