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Make sure you get QQ historic plates for this to avoid getting a CDL and as USDOT number. Feds define anything RATED (not registered) over 26000# to be "commercial" unless you get an exemption like historic, farm use, or RV status. Government looks on commercial use as an ATM for them to loot...

If you only need to move your machine once or twice a year think about hiring someone who has a truck and a CDL as it will be simpler than getting your own license if this is all you need it for.

This sounds like commercial use. The Feds have decreed anything RATED (not registered) over a 26,000 to be a "commercial vehicle" unless exempted as a RV, farm use, historic vehicle etc. A trailer heavy enough to haul a 14,000 pound machine will require a class A CDL. The feds regulate commerce...

I bought a pair of belts for this engine in a truck stop. They are not army unique. Take the old belt, if the number is visible, and any auto parts outlet that caters to trucks or equipment ought to have it.

Putting used tubes in ew tires usually doesn't work out as the tires stretch with use and expand. The tube of course also expands so when this extended tube is put in a dimensionally correct tire it folds or creases and will eventually fail on the creases especially if it old. Another problem...

If you are active duty then you know the drill: read the reading and lubricate everything. MVs will not fall out of the sky but it is a PIA to breakdown someplace 50 miles from no where and no cell service. Don't forget your OVM and BII too.

Grease is cheap. Air is free. Parts failed for lack of lubrication and tires cost money. Pay particular attention to the drive shaft between the transmission and the transfer case. Bad u-joints and loose flange bolts are most frequently found here. Be guided accordingly.

Reference tires and tubes: check with any tire mechanic and you will be told to put NEW tubes in NEW tires. As tire age, they stretch or become slightly larger than when new. The tubes, being soft rubber, stretch too. Put a larger than new used tube in a new tire and it will be too big, so when...

If all the things in post 8553 don't work try tweaking the air pump governor which is usually mounted on the firewall. You didn't say if you left home with full air pressure and it went down or it wouldn't build air pressure from the start. A stuck governor will also inhibit building air...

Reference post 1: my informant in CT tells me some of the state's procedures changed at the first of the year so it will take the average MV clerk 3 years to learn the changes. I anticipate the average clerk does not deal with historic vehicle issues very often. Or vehicles with less than 17...

Just for giggles, do you have a title for this truck ? As I doubt you got it from Government Planet, do you have a bill of sale and a registration from the previous owner ? Even Connecticut must have a MV web site with all their regulations and procedures on it. What does that say ?

Go to the same MV office he used and try to get the same clerk. If he has "classic vehicle" plates for a M931 he should be clear of a CDL because it is "exempt." CDL is not an issue for a M35 as its RATED weight is below the limit. 24,000 is likely the empty or curb weight of a M931.

Reference post 13: The idea that DMV clerks do not understand their own regulations is widespread. Especially one who was clerking in a 7-11 last week. If they push you into commercial plates you will not need a CDL for a M35 but you probably will not be eligible for collector car or special...

The concept that DMV clerks do not understand their own regulations. Most states have some kind of exemption for historic, recreational, farm use, historic military etc. I can testify from personal experience that the average MV clerk's expertise is finding some way not to do what you want or...

Being required to have commercial plates and having a CDL are not the same thing. You can use your 3500 Dodge to drive to the store or pull your boat and camping trailer with private plates in most cases. But start a landscaping business and haul lawnmowers in it see what happens without...

26000 pounds is the magic number with trucks. CDLs are required, absent excluded use, for both interstate and intrastate use. If you go outside your base state then you have to participate in the IRP and IFTA programs and still have the CDL. I have never explored the idea if reciprocal rights...

The largest size U Haul truck pulling a trailer does not require a CDL unless you are hauling hazmats in it because it is RATED for less than 26,00 pounds and does not have airbrakes. Fireworks contractors come to my town for July 4th in a rented truck with placards and the driver has a CDL.

Reference post 4: States exempt recreational vehicles such as $250,000.00 mobile homes and fire trucks from CDL requirement which would be required if they were commercial vehicles. DOT classifies anything RATED at over 26000 pounds as a commercial vehicle unless some exemption applies. So you...

Does your friend with the 3500 Dodge use it to haul placardable hazardous materials ? Maybe that is why he needs a CDL. And a USDOT and a ICC number.

CDL starts at 26,000 pounds, or with air brakes, or a bus over 15 passengers including the driver or any weight vehicle that is required to display a hazmat placard. Commercial plates for a 3500 Dodge is a different issue. I don't know about CT but other states can require commercial plates on...