250 or 350?
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From: Templeton, Massachussetts
In most 10,001 lbs and over is considered commercial. In my area of new England they need to be registered per the GVWR on the door tag. When you get an inspection they scan the sku on the tag and it has to match the registered weight and VIN#, maybe some states are old school but we've been like that since 1999. Of course we wish it was a paper system like we still do on small trailers, on those we can write down any GVW. And yes, if you got pulled over and we over loaded you could have an issue with a PITA officer.
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From: Lewisberry, Penn
In Pa you can pick anywhere between the curb weight and door GVWR for registration. Obviously if you did curb weight the moment you hopped in the vehicle you'd be overloaded. It's more for the other end, I just sold a 9500 GVWR Transit and did class 3 tags bringing the registered weight to 9000#. It saved my customer $50 a year in tag fees for 500# payload he'll never need. Federal DOT (interstate travel and the bench of many states) is over 10k for commercial use (you'd need med cards and DOT number on vehicle). Here in PA if you are staying intrastate 17k and under you're good. Combined is a whole different spec. If it's just your personal truck, then it doesn't matter so much, the real strict stuff is for commercial use. But if you're using your truck to haul a trailer for the boy scouts, that could be commercial if someone was being really picky.
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From: Hurricane, West Virginia
Correct me if I am wrong but the sticker on my truck says it's GVWR is 11500lbs but the curb weight of my truck without any payload is around the 8k mark.
I know WV registers by Gross Vehicle Weight not the GVWR.
I know WV registers by Gross Vehicle Weight not the GVWR.
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