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Tow Truck "W" Endorsement Exam Questions and Answers
Tow Truck "W" Endorsement Exam Questions and Answers
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Tow Truck "W" Endorsement ExamQuestions and Answers
Tow Truck - -A motor vehicle that tows or carries a disabled, illegally parked
or abandoned vehicle.
-GVWR - -Gross Vehicle Weight Rating
-GCVR - -Gross Combination weight rating. The GVWR plus the GVWR of the
vehicle being towed equals the GCVR.
-Light duty - -GVWR of 8,600 to 10,000 pounds
-Medium Duty - -GVWR of 10,001 to 26,000
-Heavy duty - -GVWR over 26,000 pounds
-Car carrier - -A vehicle designed to transport 1 to 3 motor vehicles. Car
carriers use a platform that is used to facilitate the operation of towing one
or many vehicles. They are known also as flatbeds, Slideback, equipment
transporters and rollbacks.
-Overloading - -Overloading can cause undetected damage, weaken the
equipment significantly and cause equipment failure which can result in
injury or death.
-GAWR - -Gross Axle Weight Rating which is used to describe the weight of
a single axle or a combination of axles is designed to carry.
-Overhang - -Overhang is measured from the center of the lift point to the
center of the rear axle of the tow trucks. The safe towing capacity decreases
when overhang increases.
-STC - -Safe towing capacity - Defined as the amount of weight or load that
does not cause more than a 50% loss of original unloaded front axle weight.
-Wheelbase - -The distance from the centerline of the front axle to the
centerline of the rear axle.
-The breaking strength rating - -TBSR is established by the manufacturer as
the maximum weight or load that new, unused equipment can bear under
ideal laboratory conditions.
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