Illinois tie down laws

[ruffdog]

Why have tie-down laws? I just scored some firewood that was laying on my country road because someone lost it off a trailer or truck. The piece was 2 feet in diameter and 8 feet long. I sure wouldn't want to hit that coming the other direction! I went ahead and cleaned it up and did my good deed for the day! :dance1:

 

[Oaktree]

Correct truck B towing a trailer C doesn't require inspected. That same truck towing trailer D does. Any vehicle towing over 8001 pounds must be inspected.

Are you saying there's no general safety inspection required in Ill.?
How do they keep unroadworthy vehicles off the road?

 

[TomIre]

Are you saying there's no general safety inspection required in Ill.?
How do they keep unroadworthy vehicles off the road?

Why in the world would you trust the government to do inspections? See the comments above about confusion among agencies and where to find regs. Simply mandate and enforce adequate insurance and then the person towing is responsible for any damages caused.

 

[RandyT]

Are you saying there's no general safety inspection required in Ill.?
How do they keep unroadworthy vehicles off the road?

No safety inspection on motor vehicles(passenger plates, motorcycle and Truck B plates) under 8000# gross weight. Trailers over 5001# require biannual inspections. The truck B requires inspection if towing over 8001#

Unsafe vehicles on the road are not a big a wide spread issue as most people make it out to be. Now may need to take into account that we don't have nearly the salt corrosion issues that places like NY and other eastern or more northern states have.

At one time IL did require inspection of all pickup trucks but that was abandoned over 40 years ago. My trailer now gets inspected by the daughter of the person that use to inspect my fathers pickup trucks.

 

[Oaktree]

Why in the world would you trust the government to do inspections?

Inspections aren't done by the government, they are done by service stations/repair shops who are licensed by the state to do so. Yeah, some of them (mostly dealerships or chain muffler shops, etc) can find things "wrong" that are not, but with a little common sense you can avoid those. It goes a long way to keep real junkers off the road.
I'm not crazy about emissions checks (a check engine light for any reason is an automatic fail), but I can see why they're needed in densely populated areas or those with air quality issues.

While I agree that driving an uninsured vehicle is dumb, not all states require insurance. And all the insurance in the world won't bring back someone who died because someone else's car didn't have safe brakes (for example).

 

[ruffdog]

....and, just because insurance is required, it doesn't ensure that people will buy it.

 

[newbury]

Are you saying there's no general safety inspection required in Ill.?
How do they keep unroadworthy vehicles off the road?

They got rid of general vehicle inspections in Mississippi a few years ago.
Many states have limited or no vehicle inspections.
Car Inspection Requirements by State: A Compendium | PartsGeek.com

 

[Ford850]

More important than the safety of the vehicle, is the safety of the driver. I'd like to see the numbers comparing vehicle failure to driver error. And even then, many times the driver blames the vehicle for an accident, because there's no way THEY were at fault.