Interesting info 5 Star AV.......In many states they use weigh stations and if you exceed the weight limit you get a ticket and sometimes have to off load enough weight to continue on the road. Some local police departments have portable scales for those trying to avoid standard weigh stations and they will travel around their jurisdiction looking for what they believe to be overloaded vehicles. Theory is overloaded vehicles cause accidents with sudden breakages and widespread overloaded vehicles wear out the roads quicker causing problems for others on the road.
Their system is the cops have books and data info on what a vehicle's rating are from the factory and if the scales show an overage you get a ticket regardless of what mods you have done.
They do that here also. Mostly enforced by DOT Compliance Officers at every weight station. They have light gray cruisers w/ the DOT logo on the doors, lights on top etc. I have a friend who was pulled over for not stopping at a weigh station with a tarped dump trailer full of construction debris. I imagine our State Troopers, small Municipalities, maybe even a few of the smaller County Sheriff's are looking out for that to an extent also. Though if I had to guess I would say the small Municipalities would be the biggest sticklers since they have the smallest budgets. One thing pretty unique to WV is we have a lot of primary and secondary roads that have weight limits, in essence banning commercial truck and trailer travel, and all law enforcement is on the lookout for that. The main reason being $$$ again, in this case money to repair damages 3, 5, 10, or even 15,000 pounds won't cause; but 26,000lbs+ will, ALL Law Enforcement is on top of this.
Perfect Example: a couple years ago a tractor trailer had a mechanical failure on I-64W and came to a stop under a brand new overhead sweeping on ramp that connects I-64E&W to St Rt 34N&S, essentially connecting our Charleston/Huntington corridor to Columbus, OH via a new 4 lane hwy that had only been open a week or so lol. Well that truck then caught fire which shut down 10 overall Interstate lanes of E W N and S-bound traffic. My lady works for one of our local TV stations and she called to tell me not to go home or I would get stuck at this certain point because they were routing all the I-64 traffic through the primary road we use to get home and around to the next exit, God bless her she's from Cleveland and she has honestly told me the interstates were closed here 5 times in 7 yrs(we didn't close the I-states here during blizzard of '94 and we will never close the I-states here for snow, the last time I sent her a picture in the left unplowed Lane with my heads up display projecting 74 on the windshield, what a great hwy snow vehicle the Av is!!) I just said thank you and I was more arrogantly focused on my unique knowledge of the secondary and smaller roads I was about to use to circumvent all this traffic. Which worked perfectly I popped out a 1/4 mile from the end of our road and turned back against the Eastbound traffic jam and was home seconds later. However in that 1/4 mile(which is one of those primary roads with a 26,000lb limit I saw truck and trailer after truck and trailer, 100's of them, and it hit me. I called her back and said this is bad, she replied "oh I know I saw on the helicopter shots the traffic isnt moving are you stuck in it?" I said "no I'm home but the road, the road is going to be destroyed" she didn't believe I could be home yet and didn't understand what I meant, so I explained my route home then explained how the road bed wasn't built for that kind of weight, especially 100's and 100's of them in one evening. She said "oh that was smart, glad you made it home" and completely blew off my road remarks. The next morning I was in awe of how bad that road was, and I worked 10 years for FEMA 149 disasters in 32 different states from '04-'13, I called her just to warn her to go a different way(she has to be approaching guiness book status on tire Road Hazard claims and Mercedes rim warranty claims already). There were multiple areas where the asphalt and part of the shoulder had been compressed 12-15" deep and 1-3' wide for 3-400yards, and softer areas under the asphalt were compressed 8-10" the size of a truck bed, for about 5 miles. It actually became a bigger story than the original. It's still not right today 2 years later.
Anyways it's still an issue here but my request to go raise my GCWR from 14k to 15,500lbs shouldn't be an issue as long as I can keep the weight over those 5200# axles on the trailer and not load to far forward causing me to go over 4100# on my rear axle, which then takes weight away from the front, which does the bulk of the breaking and all the turning, and increases that chance of accident by sudden breakage you were referring to.
Here is a link to some of our road weight limitations:
https://transportation.wv.gov/highways/maintenance/hauling_permits/Pages/Legal Size and Weight Limits.aspx
and a waayyy overblown screenshot of the GVWR increase request form
BTW I only know all this because I've looked it all up and found out exactly what my options were in the last 45 days since I decided I was pulling the trigger on the Loader purchase
Please let me know if you have any Tuner advice!!