CDL vehicle purchase

Buffy

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Looking at purchasing a dump truck that happens to requires a CDL license. Currently don’t have a CDL but is in the works. My question is, can I buy and title the vehicle even though I don’t have my CDL?
 
Yea you can buy it/title it. The pisser is when you go to tag it..If it’s rated for over 26k they will check your license.
 
Can you still derate them via title? Put a 26k plate on it. So long as it doesn't have air brakes or require any endorsements (passenger, tanker, hazmat, etc) you should be good to go. That's what we used to do at the lumber yard.
 
Put a farm tag on it if you don't plan to use it commercially. You just have to sign a form stating you are using it for farming and have 10+ acres. You don't have to physically OWN 10+ acres FYI.

If you plan to drive it often (or over 100 miles from home) I might wouldn't suggest that.

I guess I have never tagged anything over 26k that wasn't a farm tag, so I don't know, but I can't imagine what business it is of the tag office if you have a CDL or not. You could be tagging it for your CDL licensed employee, cousin, or baby mama to drive.

ALSO, the limit for form 2290 is 55k lbs, so keep it tagged for 54k or less and you don't have to fool with filing it. Also, a farm tag is 1/2 the price of a regular tag, and no CDL requirement.
 
Tacoma747 said:
Put a farm tag on it if you don't plan to use it commercially. You just have to sign a form stating you are using it for farming and have 10+ acres. You don't have to physically OWN 10+ acres FYI.

If you plan to drive it often (or over 100 miles from home) I might wouldn't suggest that.

I guess I have never tagged anything over 26k that wasn't a farm tag, so I don't know, but I can't imagine what business it is of the tag office if you have a CDL or not. You could be tagging it for your CDL licensed employee, cousin, or baby mama to drive.

ALSO, the limit for form 2290 is 55k lbs, so keep it tagged for 54k or less and you don't have to fool with filing it. Also, a farm tag is 1/2 the price of a regular tag, and no CDL requirement.
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Would you not have to prove that you have a farm for said farm tag?
 
1stgenxxx said:
Would you not have to prove that you have a farm for said farm tag?
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Nope. You just have to sign a paper at the tag office stating you have 10+ acres and are using it primarily for farming purposes or something like that. I can't remember the verbage, but you don't technically have to own 10 acres (heck it might be 5 acres), as farmers often lease land.

Now if you get pulled over by a super trooper and have a load of gravel dumping it at some fancy house in a neighborhood, you might have some 'splanin to do. I never had issues. Heck, I drove to Ft Bragg and was grossing about 85-90k on the way home with a farm tag, but I was also in a military truck/trailer hauling a military truck.
 
I think you can have a shop change the GVWR decal to 26K. I know you can order trucks and trailers that way but likely would be an issue if pulled over and over GVW. I had no issues tagging a single axle Peterbilt dump truck for 31K with no CDL, however I run farm tags and use it for farm 95% of the time. I was also told by a buddy just because it has air brakes doesn't require a CDL necessarily, as long as the GVW is under 26K, but no idea if thats true.
 
My roll back has air brakes and i have it tagged at 26000 and it can be drove without a cdl But we have to have a health card. A dot. officer who inspects my trucks for the State Police said if the weight sticker is not in the door i could tag it 26000 and if they wanted to know the truck true gross weight was they would have to call the manufacturer of said truck to find out the gross weight was. He said the only time they would do that if it was involved in a bad accident.
 
1stgenxxx said:
Would you not have to prove that you have a farm for said farm tag?
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Just came here to post a Pic. You know, of a farm truck, lol.

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