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Actually, the law goes like this:

If you are driving a vehicle or combination of vehicles INTRASTATE (within
your home state), that is 10,001 to 26,000 GVWR or GCVWR you can follow your
state's requirements.  If you are driving a vehicle with a GCVWR of 26,001
or more then you must have a CDL and follow FMCSR rules.  There is a waiver
for farm use, if the GCVWR is 10,001 or less and you're within 150 miles of
your farm.

GCVWR - Gross Combined Vehicle Weight Rating.  This is NOT the same as
weighing the vehicles (truck/trailer) and adding them up.  This is the max
they are RATED to carry.  Doesn't that put a person who drives a semi
automatically over the limit for a regular driver's license?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jannelle Wilde & Adam Falk
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:32 AM
> To: 'Raven'; 'ridecamp'
> Subject: RE: [RC] [RC] my husband and his big rig
>
> Actually, you don't if you don't weigh over 26K.  If you don't go further
> than 150 miles from home, you can run on farm plates, however, that
> doesn't
> work for us.  If you go over 26K lb, yes, you have to have a CDL.  Right
> now, our rig weighs in, pulling the trailer and some horses at about 25K
> lb
> so we're right on the edge.
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