STATE v. SANDS

No. 62452.

280 N.W.2d 370 (1979)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Keith I. SANDS, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

June 27, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Fred Dumbaugh, Cedar Rapids, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., J. Susan Allender, Asst. Atty. Gen., Eugene Kopecky, County Atty., and William L. Thomas, Asst. County Atty., for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C. J., and UHLENHOPP, McCORMICK, McGIVERIN and LARSON, JJ.


McCORMICK, Justice.

The question here is whether a statutory gross weight tolerance for motor vehicle registration purposes also constitutes a tolerance for axle gross weights. The trial court held it does not. We affirm.

Defendant Keith I. Sands owned a truck with a registered weight of 50,000 pounds. On April 19, 1978, he was arrested for having an overloaded truck while hauling manure from a packing plant to a landfill. The gross weight of the vehicle so...

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