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Yes they do now, in my State, until I think 30 or 40 years ago, pickups had to register as commercial and had to follow laws specific to them and pay more taxes
by jmclnx 3y ago
Yes they do now, in my State, until I think 30 or 40 years ago, pickups had to register as commercial and had to follow laws specific to them and pay more taxes. Some lows restricts commercial vehicles from many roads. I suspect it was a move by Reagan when he deregulated the trucking industry.
I think if a vehicle meet specific weight and size criteria, it needs to pay more and have restrictions. These new big pickups and SUVs fully meet that criteria.
>The majority of roads are too wide
Actually in my state it is the opposite. Most roads are way too narrow. When two large pickups are driving at each other, one needs to pull over.
- jeffbee 3y agoIn California, pickups are still registered as commercial vehicles. This comes as a surprise to some first-time truck buyers. The new Rivian R1T is registered commercial and weighs over 3 tons, bringing further restrictions as to the places and times it can be driven or parked. Again, surprising some buyers.
- briandear 3y agoNot true. I had a Tacoma that was not commercial registered. This was two years ago.
- jeffbee 3y agoOK, go ahead and prove that with photographs or something. Because it's quite clear in the law that if you have a pickup truck it is to be registered as a commercial vehicle, unless it has a fixed camper top or other thing that permanently covers the bed. That's why almost* every pickup truck in CA has commercial plates distinguished by their format of a single letter and six digits, instead of three letters and four digits. * almost, because you can still get custom vanity plates on pickups.
- rootusrootus 3y agoThat is untrue. Passenger vehicles are specifically excluded. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-registration/new-registration/commercial-vehicle-registration https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-registration/new-regis... You may be thinking of the classification they apply to pickup trucks that costs like $24. They have no additional regulation as a commercial vehicle unless you're using them, well, commercially.
- jeffbee 3y agoOK, but you are completely wrong, which you can demonstrate to yourself just by walking outside and looking at the license plates of pickup trucks.
- rootusrootus 3y agoAlright, I'm wrong, that's why I quoted the actual California DMV. You're right, my bad.
- jeffbee 3y agoYou quoted an irrelevant source which you do not understand. The primary source is right here: CVC §410 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=410 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio... CVC §471 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=471 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio.... CVC §260 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=260 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio... The last of which makes pickups, based on the prior two definitions, commercial vehicles. "A “commercial vehicle” is a motor vehicle of a type required to be registered under this code ... designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of property." Or, you could just google "are all trucks in California registered commercial", ask any truck owner, or ask any truck dealer.
- jwestbury 3y ago> Actually in my state it is the opposite. Most roads are way too narrow. When two large pickups are driving at each other, one needs to pull over. There are two interpretations. One is that the roads are too narrow. The other is that the vehicles are too wide.