Registered weight - what impacts does it have?

I do not have an answer but if you are not pulling a trailer and bed is empty how would they know you need to follow any rules, un-less you have signs on the truck? Think of it as your buddy next door has the same truck but does not use it like you do for money.
When making money I would think first it goes by registered weight for everything and then make sure you are not over weight for truck/trailer/equipment.

Now the other question that may have an out come on the answer is are you on the clock making money when empty or off the clock using the truck as personal transport? ie. person bobtailing to pick up a trailer "down the road" would be on the clock and log book rules but if he was bobtailing to/from home for a reset he would be off the log if I have it right.
Dave ----

 

I was told they go by the gvw doesn't matter what it's registered as. That came from a MN dot cop. Also my understanding is that you do need a cdl with what you are doing at least in Illinois you do.

 

Bdog:

There has recently been some changes in the way states are putting vehicles into the Federal Regs.

I'm off duty in a few minutes so I do not have time to really fully answer you questions. (Perhaps when I get back)

But the main question you want to know is if you drop your trailer, are you under the Fed regs? The answer is NO. Not unless your weight threw you in.

The Feds now use 3 methods to throw you into the Fed regs:
GVWR
CGVWR
Actual weight

The rules differ depending upon whether you are intrastate or interstate. Up until recently, we did not count the actual weight of the vehicle as a determiner of what regs you fell under. Now we do. Note also that a lot depends upon if you are intrastate or interstate. Intrastate the rules apply if you are 26001 or more. Interstate apply when you are 10,001 or more. So if your single vehicle is no more than 10,000 gvw, you should be fine.


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over 10k lbs your required to have a medical card log books ect
under 26k no cdl required
over 26k with a trailer under 10k class b cdl required
over 26k with a trailer over 10k class A cdl required

power unit must be registered for the gross combined vehicle weight rating. so if your truck is rated for 10k and your trailer rated for 10k you register your truck at
20k

for example in a standard tractor 5 axle combination you are allowed 12k on the steer 34 on drive axle group and 34k on the trailer group so you register the power unit at 80k