If the Gross Combination Weight Rating of the combination is not over 26,000 lbs., and/or if it is a type of vehicle exempted from CDL requirements, then no, you do not. Vehicles exempted from CDL requirements include recreational vehicles and motorhomes, firefighter and first response vehicles, military vehicles, and registered farm vehicles. However, your state may have its own non-CDL licencing requirements.
Anything defined as a CMV will require a CDL, regardless. So if it's pulling a trailer, yes, it will require a CDL.
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It's supposed to have one with any open deck trailer, if the trailer doesn't have its own headboard (which an RGN won't).
As long as you are pulling a trailer (like a boat trailer or horse trailer), and it is hitched to an insured vehicle, as a rule you aren't required to carry extra coverage. If it's an RV motorized trailer, then you need coverage just like any vehicle.
That combination, unless it's hauling hazardous materials, doesn't require a CDL at all. Now, if that was a 12,000 GVW trailer, then a Class A would be required. There is no such thing as an air brake endorsement - only a restriction, and only applicable to vehicles requiring a CDL.
if you pulling a triler on a hyway and it breaks free who is responcable for the damage the tralier may cause.
Insurance laws vary from state to state so you need to check your policy. Generally speaking, liability coverage extends from the vehicle pulling the trailer but physical damage does not. This means that if you back a trailer of any kind into someone elses vehicle at a gas station your auto insurance will cover the damage done to the other persons vehicle but not damage to the trailer, boat, camper, whatever. You need to purchase a policy for the trailer if you want coverage for it but if you are only concerned with liability you need not buy the extra policy. As a matter of full disclosure, I own and operate a small Independent Insurance Agency in Georgia and have for 22 years. I also was an agent for a direct writer insurance company for 3 years prior.
Not as long as you are driving and pulling it only in the state of TN. If you go out of state you will want to get a license plate.
To get the answer, you need to weigh your tractor trailer empty. When you get that weight, Lets talk numbers, this is wrong but it is a big example. If your tractor trailer is 35,000 pounds empty. Means you can haul about 45,000, as long as you are not overweight on your three axles. Steer, Rear, and trailer axles. 12/34/34.
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It totally depends on the weight being pulled. Your owners manual will tell you how much weight your Escape can pull, you need to have an idea of the weight you are pulling.