Re: dot compliance
Like Blue Oval Ralph says it all depends if it is a business or a personal rig.
If it is a personal truck or motor home like mine is it just takes the Class B or Class A non commercial.
From having racer friends and long discussions of this at the races in the evenings it seems a motor home pulling a trailer is usually left alone. The same for the dually and 5th wheel trailers. The ones drawing the most attention is the toter homes and the stacker trailers. Toter homes closer resemble long haul trucks so they seem to draw more attention.
The biggest thing that is getting people pulled over now seem to be over length.
I witnessed that coming home from Pamona last month. On I-40 Jim Heads car hauler and motor home pulling a stacker trailer were traveling together. The motor home was stopped by the Ca Highway Patrol near Needles and it looked like they were measuring it as we went by. About a mile down the road was the car hauler pulled over waiting.
The motor home was a tandem axle 42 or 45 ft pulling about a 30 ft stacker which would have put him at close to 80 ft in length. Ca length law is 65 so I am sure he was in trouble. We went by and kept on going.
Again it all depends on the police officer and what he thinks the law is and there is a lot of different opinions.
My 2 Cents
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