Give me step by step to get started in hotshot trucking please.

Like I said in Al. the truck plate is your combined, declared weight. But my truck was 12,200 GVWR so we rated the trailer 13,800. Had the dealer where I bought it give me a new sticker for the neck. Had the serial #, description and declared trailer weight on it. We had a guy that was leased to the same fellow with a 450 and he was apportioned for 36k. He could haul about 16k but he didn't really make that much more than the rest of us.

 

Definitions:

GVW - The actual weight of a truck OR trailer on the scale
CGVW - The actual weight of the combination of the truck and trailer on a scale
GVWR - The vehicle manufacturers weight rating as noted on the sticker on the truck or trailer
CGVWR - The manufacturers weight ratings of both the truck and trailer combined that are depicted on the stickers

So let me see if I have this correct.

First question:

If I plate my truck at 40K it will be apportioned and I need a DOT and MC# for Interstate. I need IRP/IFTA and a CDL A.

Truck door sticker is 32K GVWR
Trailer sticker 25K GVWR
Total combined sticker weight 57K CGVWR
Actual combined weight on the scale 16K CGVW

If I am figuring correctly, I can haul up to 24K load legally?

Next question:

I still have the 32K stickered truck, but a trailer stickered at 10K; Truck is plated at 26K

No CDL A, No IRP/IFTA, No DOT or MC#

Truck door sticker 32K
Trailer sticker 10K
Total combined sticker weight 42K CGVWR
Actual combined weight on the scale 16K CGVW

If I am figuring correctly, I can haul up to 10K load legally?
OR
Because the CGVWR (the combined weight RATING) is over 26K will I still need a CDL A, apportioned, and IRP/IFTA?

 

No, you need a CDL class A because your CGVWR is over 26k. You need DOT and MC regardless, you are only correct that you don't need IFTA/IRP

I'm going to correct myself. If the trailer is 10k you do not need a CDL, however if it is obviously a 32k trailer with a 10k sticker, you might have trouble if they combine the axle weights to come up with different GVWR

 

In CA if your trailer is rated at 10,001 or more you need a cdl.

 

Same with Indiana

 

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