Question about a 42,600lb RV wrapped with a commercial advert

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Registering a vehicle as a "Recreational Vehicle" comes with certain specific limitations. For example, if you have horses that you use for recreational trail riding, and you have a horse trailer with living quarters, you can put RV tags on the trailer. However, if you compete with the horses...whether at shows, rodeos, or any other competition with the potential for monetary awards, you cannot transport the horses to or from the show in a trailer that is registered as a recreational vehicle. Well, you CAN...but if you are stopped and you let it slip that you are going to a competition, you will be cited for improperly registering the trailer. Same trailer, same cargo....different use. Recreational use means just that. If you are going to use it for anything else, you've got to register it accordingly.

Recreational vehicles can ONLY be used for recreational purposes. Once you wrap that advertisement around it, it is no longer being used for recreation.

A personal car is not registered as a recreational vehicle. Commercial vehicles can be plated as passenger cars or light trucks IF the vehicle is a passenger car or a light truck. Vehicles tagged as recreational vehicles cannot be used for commercial purposes.

 

It's not a Vantare' or Newell, but it looks nice.

 

If it's used for trade shows or between movie sets it is commercial. You need to clarify with the employer.

It's class B if the RV is used anyway in a business that makes money. If it's plated commercial it is commercial.

If it's plain out recreational use with private tags then Georgia requires a non-commercial class B at minimum. You have your CDL B so you're covered.


The trick comes if you pull a trailer behind it. You already have a class B so anything 10,000 lbs and under you are okay.

Now if it's a private vehicle and you pull something behind it more than 10,000 lbs, then at minimum Georgia requires you to have a non-commercial class A license. If it's commercial tagged then you would need a CDL A only in that case.

 

I also believe that if the vehicle is owned by a company or corporation and the driver is "For Hire" (like mentioned ^), this vehicle is considered a "Commercial Vehicle".

Best thing to do is contact your local DMV and state police/DOT. Better to get it figured out before hitting the road. These days with sue happy folks/lawyers, if anything happens while your behind the wheel of this vehicle and trying to fly under to radar with it, I can see the crap hitting the fan big time.

 

Funny this comes up.The Georgia coops were pulling all busses in last week.

I pulled Nascar show cars to trade shows for about a year with a dually pickup truck and it was considered a commercial vehicle.
I got asked for my medical card several times at the scales.
Also we had to display a DOT number and not for hire on both sides of the truck.
It is the truck that is not for hire,the driver is irrelevant.

 

No doubt it is commercial.

Driver is being PAID.

 

A driver who moves a vehicle for hire is considered to be in a commercial vehicle.

We move personally owned motor homes for pay. If the vehicle is moved by us it is considered a commercial vehicle regardless of how it is licensed.