# Federal passenger threshold

A term used when buying limousine service.

The seat count at which a for-hire vehicle becomes a federal commercial motor vehicle.

49 CFR 390.5T counts a vehicle designed or used to carry more than eight passengers including the driver for compensation as a commercial motor vehicle, whatever it weighs, and 390.3T(a)(1) applies the subchapter to employers operating one in interstate commerce. A nine-seat van is therefore inside the federal driver-file and hours rules while sitting well under the state charter-party cap of sixteen that decides the permit class. The two lines are drawn in different places and a fleet can straddle them, so read the seat count off each registration: one airport van can put an operator that thinks of itself as a car service under the federal regime.

Part of: Buying a Limousine Service (https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-limousine-service)

Source: https://searchspheresource.com/guides/buying-a-limousine-service/terms/federal-passenger-threshold
Not dated: The same editorial definitions as the glossary, inside a trade.

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