1.The owner of a motor truck, truck tractor, or road tractor, if the owner’s operation
has not resulted in a conviction or action pending under this section, may increase the
gross weight registration of the vehicle to a higher gross weight registration by payment of
one-twelfth of the difference between the annual fee for the higher gross weight and the
amount of the fee for the gross weight at which the vehicle is registered, multiplied by the
number of unexpired months of the registration year. If the owner’s operation has resulted
in a conviction or action pending under this section, any increase in the gross weight
registration shall be obtained by payment of the difference between the annual fee for the
higher gross weight and the amount of the fee for the gross weight at which the
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1. The owner of a motor truck, truck tractor, or road tractor, if the owner’s operation
has not resulted in a conviction or action pending under this section, may increase the
gross weight registration of the vehicle to a higher gross weight registration by payment of
one-twelfth of the difference between the annual fee for the higher gross weight and the
amount of the fee for the gross weight at which the vehicle is registered, multiplied by the
number of unexpired months of the registration year. If the owner’s operation has resulted
in a conviction or action pending under this section, any increase in the gross weight
registration shall be obtained by payment of the difference between the annual fee for the
higher gross weight and the amount of the fee for the gross weight at which the vehicle is
registered.
2. Upon conversion of a truck to a truck tractor or a truck tractor to a truck, an increased
gross weight registration of the proper type may be obtained for the vehicle by payment,
except as provided in section 321.106, of one-twelfth of the difference between the annual fee
for the higher gross weight and the amount of the annual fee for the gross weight at which
the vehicle is registered, multiplied by the number of unexpired months of the registration
year from the date of the conversion.
3. The registered gross weight of a vehicle or combination of vehicles may also be
increased by installing and using an auxiliary axle or axles, and the combined registered
gross weight of the vehicle and auxiliary axle or axles shall determine the total registered
gross weight. An auxiliary axle shall not be used to convert a single axle to a tandem axle
unless equipped with a device to equalize the load carried by the single axle and the auxiliary
axle when in tandem and when in motion or when standing, and the load transmitted to the
highway by either the single axle or the auxiliary axle shall not exceed that permitted for
a single axle, nor shall the load transmitted to the highway when in tandem and when in
motion or when standing, exceed that permitted for a tandem axle.
4. A person shall not operate a motor truck, trailer, truck tractor, road tractor, semitrailer,
or combination thereof, or any such vehicle equipped with a transferable auxiliary axle or
axles, on the public highways with a gross weight exceeding the gross weight for which
it is registered by more than five percent; provided, however, that any vehicle or vehicle
combination referred to in this subsection, while carrying a load of raw farm products, soil
fertilizers including ground limestone, raw dairy products, livestock, live poultry, or eggs,
or a special truck, while carrying a load of distillers grains, may be operated with a gross
weightoftwenty-fivepercentinexcessofthegrossweightforwhichitisregistered. However,
this subsection shall not be construed to allow the operation of a special truck on the public
highways with a gross weight exceeding the maximum gross weight allowed under section
321.463, subsection 6.
5. For the purposes of this section cracked or ground soybeans, sorgo, corn, wheat, rye,
oats, or other grain shall be deemed to be raw farm products, provided that such products are
being directly delivered to a farm, from the place where the whole grain had been delivered
from a farm for the purpose of cracking or grinding and immediate delivery to the farm to
which such cracked or ground products are being delivered.
6. Thetruckoperatorshallhaveinthetruckoperator’spossessionareceiptshowingplace
of processing on the return trip.