GVW + TARE Weight Decal (Two-Line)

Tare is the weight of the empty vehicle, with no cargo on board. Details such as whether fuel, equipment and the driver are counted depend on who set the figure, so use the number from your own paperwork or weigh ticket. If an agency asks for a particular kind of empty weight, ask it how that figure is defined before you order, because the decal prints whatever you type.

GVWR is a rating: the manufacturer's maximum loaded weight for a single vehicle, usually found on the label. The first line of this decal is free text, so type GVWR 26000 instead of GVW 26000 if that is the term on your registration or label. Using your paperwork's own term keeps the decal consistent with the documents an inspector may ask to see.

Start with your paperwork, since a title or registration may list an empty weight. The California DMV handbook, for example, describes its title as showing the unladen weight. Otherwise, weigh the empty vehicle on a public scale and keep the ticket. Fuel level and added racks change the result, so weigh it set up the way it normally runs.

New Jersey requires commercial motor vehicles of 26,001 pounds GVWR or more that are registered or principally garaged there to display the GVWR, with its own lettering size, per the NJ MVC. California commercial vehicles registered under its weight program must show the DMV's own weight decals on both sides. This decal does not replace those. For other states, ask your agency.

You do. We print the two lines exactly as typed and cannot verify a weight, and the guarantee does not cover a mistyped figure. New Jersey's statute text, for one, makes it punishable to knowingly display a lower GVWR than the actual rating. Copy the ratings carefully, and for a matched pair with a unit number, see the Trailer / Unit Number pair.