do all truck and trailers have to pull into weigh stations in illinois

I can just see me trying to explain to a NJ state trooper why I'm Legal driving a MD Farm truck towing a WM mill in South Jersey!! I'm not brave enough to call that much attention to myself or my 15 year old rig! In both states, you're allowed to drive a farm tagged vehicle between farms you own or rent (on farm business, of course). Maryland considers a farmer working his own timber to still be farming. The farm I own is in Maryland, my steers are in south Jersey (100 miles away where I live). The bad thing about this is that most of my using of this truck will be farm related, and I should be able to put farm truck tags on it. can lay really heavy fines on you if you give them reason to. The other side of the coin is I hear the D.O.T. My Bro-in-law (a trucker) says the weight thing is just a money generator for the state, and tht if I put 'NOT FOR HIRE' stickers on the door, they are not likely to bother me. Here's the question: If I tag this thing for say 20K, and since the door sticker says 11K now, am I supposed to stop at those weight stations? Even when empty? I think the answer is yes, but maybe there's something I don't know about this stuff.

I'm liking the self inspect part, because they'll fail you for so many things that have no safety significance - like a misalligned gear shift indicator for example. None of this will be for hire.Īfter working through the state's motor vehicles phone system, I finally got a guy that says I can tag the truck as a personal vehicle, no commercial tags required, and believe it or not, since it's door sticker says 11,000 lbs, and it's a diesel, I can self inspect. I will use this thing for everything from hauling logs to hauling hay to trailering my junk around. I've bought myself a '92 Ford F350 12 stake body dump.

Do all truck and trailers have to pull into weigh stations in illinois