Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 343 - Operators' licenses.
343.04 - Vehicle classifications.

343.04 Vehicle classifications.
(1) Vehicle classes. For purposes of this chapter, motor vehicles are divided into the following classes:
(a) Class A. A “Class A" motor vehicle is any combination of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating, actual gross weight or registered weight of over 26,000 pounds, if the aggregate total gross vehicle weight rating, actual gross weight or registered weight of the vehicle or vehicles being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
(b) Class B. A “Class B" motor vehicle is any single vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating, actual gross weight or registered weight of over 26,000 pounds, and any such vehicle towing a vehicle or vehicles with an aggregate total gross vehicle weight rating, actual gross weight or registered weight of 10,000 pounds or less.
(c) Class C. A “Class C" motor vehicle is any single vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating, actual gross weight and registered weight of 26,000 pounds or less, including any such vehicle towing a vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating, actual gross weight and registered weight of less than 10,000 pounds, if any of the following applies:
1. The vehicle is designed to transport 16 or more passengers, including the driver.
2. The vehicle is transporting hazardous materials requiring placarding or any quantity of a material listed as a select agent or toxin under 42 CFR 73.
(d) Class D. A “Class D" vehicle is any motor vehicle not included in par. (a), (b), (c) or (e).
(e) Class M. A “Class M" vehicle is any motorcycle.
(2) Vehicle types. For purposes of this chapter, certain vehicles intended to carry school children or other passengers, or having special operating characteristics, are divided into the following vehicle types specified in pars. (a) to (f):
(a) Hazardous materials transporter. Hazardous materials transporter vehicles are vehicles transporting hazardous materials requiring placarding or any quantity of a material listed as a select agent or toxin under 42 CFR 73.
(b) Full air brakes equipped. Full air brakes equipped vehicles are commercial motor vehicles equipped with a braking system operating fully on the air brake principle.
(bm) Partial air brakes equipped. Partial air brakes equipped vehicles are commercial motor vehicles equipped with a braking system operating partially on the air brake principle and partially on the air over hydraulic brake principle.
(c) Tanks. Tanks are commercial motor vehicles which are tank vehicles.
(d) Passenger carrying. Passenger-carrying vehicles are motor vehicles designed to carry, or actually carrying, 16 or more passengers, including the driver.
(e) School buses. All school buses, including those which are commercial motor vehicles.
(f) Vehicles towing double or triple trailers. Vehicles towing double or triple trailers are commercial motor vehicles with double or triple trailers.
History: 1989 a. 105; 1999 a. 140; 2003 a. 33; 2015 a. 123; 2019 a. 50.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 343 - Operators' licenses.

343.01 - Words and phrases defined.

343.02 - Administration of driver license law.

343.025 - Medicare acceptance of assignment; information; report.

343.027 - Confidentiality of signatures.

343.03 - Classified driver license system.

343.04 - Vehicle classifications.

343.05 - Operators to be licensed; exceptions.

343.055 - Commercial driver license waivers.

343.06 - Persons not to be licensed.

343.065 - Restricted commercial driver license.

343.07 - Instruction permits.

343.075 - Instructional permits for applicants for special restricted operators' licenses.

343.08 - Restricted licenses for persons under 18 years of age.

343.085 - Probationary licenses to new drivers.

343.10 - Occupational licenses.

343.11 - Temporary license for persons previously licensed in another state.

343.12 - School bus operators to obtain special authorization.

343.125 - Endorsements for transporting certain hazardous materials.

343.13 - Restricted licenses.

343.135 - Special restricted operator's license.

343.14 - Application for license.

343.15 - Application of persons under 18; liability of sponsors; release from liability; notification of juvenile violation.

343.16 - Examination of applicants; reexamination of licensed persons.

343.165 - Processing license and identification card applications.

343.17 - Contents and issuance of operator's license.

343.175 - Organ donor information.

343.18 - License to be carried; verification of signature.

343.19 - Duplicate licenses or identification cards.

343.20 - Expiration of licenses.

343.21 - License fees.

343.22 - Notice of change of address or name.

343.23 - Records to be kept by the department.

343.234 - Department to furnish information to the selective service system.

343.235 - Access to license and identification card records.

343.237 - Access to license and identification card photographs and fingerprints.

343.24 - Department to furnish operating record.

343.245 - Duties of commercial motor vehicle drivers; employer responsibilities; penalties.

343.247 - Employer notification program.

343.25 - Cancellation of licenses.

343.26 - License after cancellation.

343.265 - Voluntary surrender and reissuance after surrender.

343.28 - Courts to report convictions and forward licenses to the department.

343.30 - Suspension and revocation by the courts.

343.301 - Installation of ignition interlock device.

343.303 - Preliminary breath screening test.

343.305 - Tests for intoxication; administrative suspension and court-ordered revocation.

343.307 - Prior convictions, suspensions or revocations to be counted as offenses.

343.31 - Revocation or suspension of licenses after certain convictions or declarations.

343.315 - Commercial motor vehicle disqualifications; effects.

343.32 - Other grounds for revocation or suspension of licenses; demerit points.

343.325 - Courts to report appeals; when appeal stays suspension, revocation or disqualification.

343.33 - Hearing on suspensions and revocations.

343.34 - Suspension of licenses.

343.345 - Restriction, limitation or suspension of operating privilege.

343.35 - Surrender of licenses upon cancellation, revocation or suspension.

343.36 - Department to distribute suspension, revocation and disqualification lists and nonresidents' records of conviction.

343.37 - No operation under foreign license during revocation or suspension.

343.38 - Reinstatement after revocation, suspension, cancellation, or disqualification.

343.39 - When operating privilege automatically reinstated.

343.40 - Judicial review of suspension, revocation, cancellation or denial of license.

343.43 - Unlawful use of license.

343.435 - License not to be used as security.

343.44 - Operating while suspended, revoked, ordered out-of-service or disqualified.

343.45 - Permitting unauthorized person to drive.

343.46 - Duty of persons renting vehicles to another.

343.50 - Identification cards.

343.51 - Special identification cards for physically disabled.

343.52 - Unlawful use of special identification cards.

343.60 - Definitions.

343.61 - Driver school requirements.

343.62 - Instructor requirements.

343.66 - Revocation, suspension, cancellation, or denial of renewal of driver school licenses and instructor's licenses.

343.69 - Hearings on license denials, cancellations, restrictions, suspensions, and revocations, and progressive enforcement action.

343.71 - Driver school records, curriculum, and operations.

343.72 - Rules for conducting driver schools; prohibited practices.

343.73 - Penalty.

343.75 - Control group testing by department.