Hello All,
So I'm trying to get my coach registered in South Dakota. They require the unloaded vehicle weight on something from the manufacturer.
Sticker or brochure.
Any idea where I might find this in my coach?
1986 FT GV 3300
Thanks!
There will be no UVW on a sticker. The DOT sticker on the driver's wall is GVWR.
Likely, just run it over some scales-- local truck stop, grain elevator, moving company, etc.
If the highlighted section is correct, then I don't think that a truck scale ticket will do the trick but you might try with a local CAT scale. If you have a motorcade membership, my first inclination would be to call James Triana at FT. Lots of full-timers registered in South Dakota so it seems to me FT would have responded to this before.
We went through this a couple of years ago. Shortly after we got our coach we filled the fresh water tank (black and gray were empty), filled the propane tank, filled the diesel tank, then drove it onto the CAT scale. We used that number for getting our coach registered in SD.
Sorry, were I to have to pay license fee based on actual weight, ALL the tanks would be near empty. Carrying a full water tank would not even be in my wildest dreams.
Been there, done that!
The reason we weighed as we did was that we wanted to know how much stuff we could carry. At that time we were not living in the coach. When it was time to license in SD we were living full-time in the coach and nowhere near our S&B. It would have been quite difficult to unload the coach completely just to go weigh it, so we're just going to have to live with the weight we used.
Yeah... We will probably have to just do the same thing. We already live in it. So we'll have to weigh it with our stuff in in.
California doesn't require weighing it.