For those that drive lifted trucks regularly around the Buckeye state, and who are also higher than the standard bumper height laws, what kind of trouble have you run into with the police? I want to go around 6-8" with 36-38" tires, but I don't want to spend all that money only to have to take it all off.

 

Here you go , and welcome to the Ohio chapter. got a pic of your truck?

http://www.bmv.ohio.gov/misc/traffic_rules.htm

 

No truck yet for me. Probably next year after I graduate college. I'm on the fence between buying a 4 door, long bed, 6spd, diesel F250, or a similarly outfitted DRW F350. I'd like to buy an F250 to lift it 6in. with 37in. tires, but I'd like to buy a DRW F350 to tow two race cars at a time.

 

With a F350 you'll be required to have commercial plates but you won't have the lift height regulations that the F250 would have.

 

I have a 350 and was NOT required to get commercial plates.

 

Would the commercial plates only be required for the F350 if I was using it for some sort of business? What else would I have to get in addition to commercial plates? I'm pretty new to the whole scene, so I'm just trying to do some research before I buy.

 

There are two classes for F350s, commercial or non-comm. Mine is tagged non-comm because it's my personal truck, it's about $90 per year to tag. I think the non-comm one-ton is a newer thing, my dad told me I'd be tagging commercial when I bought the F350 too....

 

Bumper height is one of those things where it all depends on where you are and WHO sees you. Back in the in late 80's they really cracked down and put a halt to the monster trucks that ran around town.

You'll still see some occasionally running around, but it's just "WHEN" they bust you not "IF".

 

The height to the bottom of the bumper right??

 

Yep from the center of truck on level ground.

 

unfortunately the my excursion falls under the PASSENGER CAR law and thats a straignt 22" bumper height...........which I think stock it taller than that!!

 

My local PD was SOOOOOOOOO **** about a truck I built for a guy it was over the legal height by a mere 1/2"............had to drop it down and caused a ton of work for me that was not worth the hasle......nothing a few psi lower in the rear tires wouldn't fix!!.........they were 39.5 boggers not like youd notice it!!

food for thought ANY stock 3/4 or 1 ton dodge JUST makes the legal limit but you add new tires other than what was on it most likely it will be more than 1" over.........................

pick your battles but be sure to win the war!!!


John

 

I found out a little trinket of information- a buddy of mine got pulled over twice in one night by the same cop and received two tickets from for height because they couldn't get him on anything else(obviously he pissed the cop off somehow), so he hired a lawyer because he was livid. Anyway long story short the lawyer got him out of it because (supposedly-this is what i was told, I was not there) the judge ruled that because the rolling weight of the truck was nearly 2500 lbs less than GVW, that the measurement was invalid because an extra 2500 lbs on a truck would surely change the ride height. Like I said, this is what I was told, but he showed me both tickets and swears by his story......

 

I would say he tossed it more on a harassment deal just B/C you add stuff to the truck that in NO WAY will change the GVRW............ex. say a F-150 weighs 5500# rolling and you ad the Lift,tires,wheels,locker(s),winch,winch bumper,lights on the bumper............you could have added 2500# by the time your done depending on what was added!!
Just by adding the 2500# all you did was make an 8000# 1/2 ton..AGAIN THIS IN AN EXAMPLE
The same is true with removing things you strip all the sheet metal off and go with glass all you did was make it lighter not change its load capacity!!

...GVRW is determined at the factory not from adding or removing stuff!!

OR

the judge OWNES a lifted truck and helped a brother out!!!


How much over the legal limit was it?????
What was he driving???
What did he remove to knock 2500# off the weight.???
I would think 1ST a warning .......park it or your getting a ticket kinda deal THEN a ticket.............

That and I don't think GVW is the same as ride height............just my $.02

Sounds like he got a free one the judge confused two entirely different things!!

http://www.pc.gov.bc.ca/cmg/newweb/GVW.htm

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I think you've got it confused. In ohio the ride height goes off the vehicle GVWR[gross vehicle weight rating] not GAWR[gross actual weight rating] My 96 and 02 one tons have GVWRs of 10,000 and 11,000[respectively-one is 4x4 one is not] but the 96 only weighs around 7500 and the 02 around 7700. So, that leaves 2500# and 3300#[respectively] left I can add to the GAWR to each vehicle before they reach GVWR. his was an F250 so I don't know his ratings but i do know it was a regular cab long bed so it was lighter than both of my trucks guaranteed. If you put 2500# and 3300# in the bed of either of my duallys I guarantee they will squat, and an F250 will squat considerably more than they even would. This was the point he made to the judge. He was 2" over lift law and was supposedly 22XX# under GVWR- and he got a weigh slip for court.