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Home Page » Publications » Vehicle Code Title Page » Vehicle Code Table of Contents » Division 1 » Section 350

Gross Vehicle Weight Rating: Gross Combination Weight Rating

350.  (a) "Gross vehicle weight rating" (GVWR) means the weight specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a single vehicle.

(b) Gross combination weight rating (GCWR) means the weight specified by the manufacturer as the loaded weight of a combination or articulated vehicle. In the absence of a weight specified by the manufacturer, GCWR shall be determined by adding the GVWR of the power unit and the total unladen weight of the towed units and any load thereon.

Amended and renumbered from 390 Sec. 14, Ch. 861, Stats. 2000. Effective September 29, 2000. Operative December 31, 2001.