What is the cargo weight limit for a Class B license?

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  1. Bean Jr.

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    No! The max your vehicle can legally handle is 26,000 lbs. At 28,000 you're overweight.
     
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    Trailer on dump makes it a restricted A due to combination vehicle. Its also presumes Class B already possesses airbrakes.

    I don't mean restricted A as in cannot drive anything A over something like that it's just that most anyone running anything usually has a full A CDL anyhow.Usually. Not always. With the exception of our esteemed northern Maryland yankees who consider those who apply to run Class B with Class A over qualified.
     
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    The truck can weigh anything. The trailer can weigh no more than 10k.
    Examples: class b with passenger endorsement, you can drive 25, 50, 100 morbidly obese passengers. You can't do that if they're in a trailer.
    You have a box truck, put as much in as you can. If you need more room, your trailer can't weigh more than 10k

    If you want to pull a heavy trailer, get a class A.

     
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    lmao
     
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    100 morbidly obese passengers.

    *Quickly calculates the net cargo... 40,000 pounds? Plus maybe 10 or more thousand?

    You will not longer be driving a bus, you would be driving a very tall mr tippy at those weights. HA...
     
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    I have a cdl class B, dell pick up 10k trailer, how much can I put on the deck
     
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    What is the weight of the truck and the weight rating?
    Cargo capacity the the difference of the two.

    There is no actual limit of the tractor on class B license, it's all up to the state. I've seen class B trucks weigh in at 100,000 lbs (cranes). Most are limited by the national 80k limit on interstates though.
     
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    my god, the world really has gone to s....
    This thread and this nonsense is why good drivers are still just labeled as Dumb F...in Truck driver.
     
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