Tow Truck Endorsement Test With Complete Solutions | Latest Updated

Tow Truck Endorsement Test With Complete Solutions | Latest
Updated

1. Tow Truck Motor vehicle that tows or carries a disabled, illegally parked, or
abandoned
motor vehicle or a motor vehicle involved in an accident.

2. Gross Combina-
tion Weight Of the tow truck plus the GCWR of the vehicle being towed.
Rating (GCWR)

3. Light Duty Tow Trucks have a GCWR of 8,600 - 10,000 pound (cars, trucks,
small vans)
4. Medium Duty Tow Trucks 10,001 - 26,000 pounds (trucks, buses, recreational
vehicles)
5. Heavy Duty Tow Trucks have a GVWR of over 26,000 pounds (Larger buses, trucks,
trailers, and heavy construction equipment)

6. Car Carriers Designed to transport one to three motor vehicles in a flat platform
that slides
or tilts to the ground.

7. Gross Vehicle
Weight Rating The weight of a vehicle plus the maximum carrying capacity
(GVWR) recommended by the vehicle's manufacturer.

8. Gross Axle Is the amount of weight that a single axle or a combination of axles is
Weight Rating
(GAWR) designed to carry.

9. Curb Weight Unloaded weight of the tow truck

10. Overhang Is measured from the center of the lift point to the center of the
rear axles of
the tow truck

11. Safe Towing 12. Front Axle Weight (FAW)
Capacity (STC)
13. Wheelbase (WB)
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