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jmramiller
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Nov 12, 2007

Actual federal weight law rules, some questions and answers

I have per the request of a few members, stickied this post. Please note, this is not a place to argue whether a law makes sense or not, just what the laws are. If you have a question about wt laws,...
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BertP
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Dec 01, 2007
Unless I'm reading this wrong, isn't that what Jim said? In other words, the FMCSA says that the max gvw for a commercial truck is 80K lb, but a State is free to enforce a higher weight than that - just not a lower weight. According to this link, the max GVW's in the US vary from 80 K lb to unlimited.

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