Commonwealth v. Steiner

VAN der VOORT, Judge:

On March 31, 1978, Randall Steiner was operating a tractor-trailer combination in the City of Chester. A police officer noticed the rear tires were bulging and stopped the vehicle. The officer observed that the tractor bore no registration plates; the trailer did bear current registration.1 Subsequently it was determined that the tractor had been registered in Pennsylvania for a gross weight of 73,280 pounds but its registration had expired more than a year earlier. Such registration was reinstated a month after the above incident.

Steiner was instructed by the police to…