How much can I carry

Will you be traveling outside the state your in?

 

You will need insurance and a dot number.
You will not need an MC authority unless you plan to haul for hire.
For hire means your hauling for someone else besides your self.
You must own all cargo on the trailer.
If you leave your home state you will need an IFTA license.
As for licensing weight add the gvw of the trailer and the gvw of the truck together and that is the maximum weight you can license for.

 

Oh and if you leave your home state you must get apportioned plates for the truck.

 

Did everyone else miss the part where he said move 26k with a pickup and trailer. Not 26k total but 26k + the truck and trailer weight. That seems like it need to go on an actual flatbed not a 3500 and a goose neck

 

Definitely true but I have seen a lot of pickup/ trailer combinations legally licensed and pull that much weight.
Now stopping those death traps is whole different story.

 

Gcvwr 30k then no I don't think so. How do you imagine if 30k is what its rated for, they are gonna extend that an extra 12k for you....? Unless I missed something.

What pickup and trailer do you have? Specs?

That's a lot of weight for a pickup to try and stop. Hope you never have to emergency stop, if you do better hire a #### good lawyer

 

You take the gvw of the truck and add it to the gvw of the trailer and that’s what you can license for.
When I started hauling cars I had a 3500 pick up pulling a 4 car trailer licensed legal with a gvw combination of 36,000#.
Now think of the gvw weight of the pickups pulling 5 and 6 car trailers.
Is it legal absolutely.
Is it unsafe and scary in my opinion absolutely.
This is why most of us who started that way quickly updated to full size tractor and trailer.