CDL question

[cantcutter]

You can reg. any truck as ag and it puts it under CDL no matter what the weight is......don't get caught doing commercial work in it though......you can also put 26000 lb plates on any truck and just pay the fine when you get caught over weight. There isn't a coal or log truck in eastern kentucky running under the legal limit.

 

[LightningLoader]

They can make trucks that have a GVWR that requires a CDL and down rate them by putting on tires that limit the load capacity and call it "Non-CDL". Probibly what's happened here. We manfacture grapple trucks and see this a lot especially coming out of AL and MS.

As for believing the yellow sticker in the doorjam or not, hard to tell. The manufacturer who mounts on the chassis is the one who completes that sticker, so I guess it depends on if they're honest. We always fill them out correctly, because beyond the honesty issue you would be bringing liability upon yourself if you filled it out wrong and someone got in a wreck.

 

[fast*st]

This here gives a rough outline:
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/enforce/cvm/CMV_license.html

A listing with most of the state's individual cdl requirements.
http://www.dmv.org/cdl-education.php


States vary so widely, in CA if you're the pizza delivery
boy, you're supposed to have a class D cdl. If you have a
monster RV, you need a class B or class A noncommercial
endorsement.

As far as vehicle determination for licensing and bridge
weights, the door tag GVW seems to be the standard that
the enforcement folks go by, that and registered weight.

Farm? agriculture? tree farm/nursery, uhh, that's a whole
nother pile of exemptions and requirements.

I was suprised with my first dually, had to have comm plates,
fire extinguisher, triangles and wheel chocks.. sheesh.

-Jason