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Old 01-27-2024, 06:46 PM   #23 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by j-c-c View Post
That 14,000lb benchmark is interesting,
I am aware of nowhere else in the truck world that the 14,000lb threshold comes up. The normal ones I am aware of are 80,000, 55,000, 33,000, 26,000, 10,000 and 5,000.
Seems rather arbitrary.
14,000 lbs is the dividing line between Class 3 (10,001 - 14,000) and Class 4 (14,001 - 16,000 lbs)

The Federal government calls vehicles Class 3 and below "light duty" and they have different rules than medium and heavy duty.
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