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It's in the TM. Table 1-3, Vehicle Weights and Payloads.
I don’t know 100% but I did talk to a California Highway patrol and a Utah highway patrol officer separately asking this question. I was told that it doesn’t matter what it says on your truck it’s what it says on your registration and in Utah the GVWR of your truck is not dictated by the actual truck, but what you are willing to pay for for instance, my am 1078 A1 is registered at 26,000 GVWR and I was told that’s all that matters as far as Highway patrol or DOT. That’s just for legal purposes obviously not what is safe for your truck to hold. This seems a little weird to me. I would think what it says on the truck is more important and matters more for driver safety but I am pretty sure this is the case based on what I was told. Another caveat I don’t necessarily remember this part of it but I think it also matters that no single axle has over 13,000 pounds but I don’t really remember that part for sure
LOL safety has never been part of the equation its all about the money the state can swindle out of the truck owner ! Long after IFTA was put in place we had to call in advance to the state of oregon and buy a fuel use permit and road use permit and you had to have them fax u the permit to an out of state only fax line and no one in the state was allowed to sell you diesel fuel without that permit number and the oregon puc would try to talk you into claiming more weight you were declareing as your gross cause thats what you were paying for im in a 45.000 lb bus and they are hell bent to sale me a 60,000 lb permit cause some busses pulled trailers ! Let me check NOPE i can plainly see no trailer (WELL IF WE CATCH YOU IN THE STATE 1 POUND OVER WERE GONA DO THIS AND THAT ) Each state has its own definition on the gross what ever make them the most money but the average rule was 12k on the steer 34k on drives(2 xle and 34 on trailer or 20 k on any single independent axle other than steer axle then in some states you could run 18k on steer with wide flotation steer tires and some states would go by what the stated weight printed on each tire so each state should be contacted in advance if you dont want any surprises ! So play dumb as possible yes sir no sir to everything and dont volunteer anything not asked of you ! Dont talk yourself into some kind of bogus citation the only thing you want to leave that sceen with is the D.O.T. s pity thinking he just met the dumbest human being of his carer !
