§ 31-18-101 — Definitions

(a) As used in this act:
(i) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.
(ii) "Authority" means a document issued under this
act by the department, granting intrastate authority to a person
to operate a motor vehicle as a motor carrier transporting
persons or property;
(iii) "Commercial vehicle" means any vehicle or
vehicle combination used, designed or maintained for
transportation of persons for hire, compensation or profit, or
designed or used primarily for the transportation of property
for gain or profit and shall include, but not be limited to:
(A) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 183, § 2.
(B) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 183, § 2.
(C) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 183, § 2.
(D) With respect to interstate operation:
(I) Any vehicle engaged in transporting of
persons or property, having a gross vehicle weight rating, gross
combination weight rating, gross vehicle weight or gross
combination weight of ten thousand one (10,001) pounds or more;
(II) Any vehicle transporting eight (8) or
more passengers, including the driver, for compensation;
(III) Any vehicle transporting sixteen (16)
or more passengers, including the driver, without compensation;
(IV) Any vehicle requiring a hazardous
materials placard; or
(V) Any power unit having three (3) or more
axles regardless of weight.
(E) With respect to intrastate operation:
(I) Any vehicle engaged in transporting of
persons or property, having a gross vehicle weight rating, gross
combination weight rating, gross vehicle weight or gross
combination weight of twenty-six thousand one (26,001) pounds or
more;
(II) Any vehicle transporting eight (8) or
more passengers, including the driver, for compensation;
(III) Any vehicle transporting sixteen (16)
or more passengers, including the driver, without compensation;
(IV) Any vehicle requiring a hazardous
materials placard;
(V) A power unit having two (2) axles and a
gross vehicle weight or registered gross vehicle weight
exceeding twenty-six thousand (26,000) pounds;
(VI) A power unit having three (3) or more
axles regardless of weight; or
(VII) Is used in combination when the
weight of such combination exceeds twenty-six thousand (26,000)
pounds of gross vehicle weight.
(iv) "Compensation" means money or other recompense
given, either directly or indirectly, for the transportation of
persons or property by a motor carrier;
(v) "Department" means the department of
transportation;
(vi) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.
(vii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.
(viii) "Gross vehicle weight" means as defined in
W.S. 31-1-101(a)(vii);
(ix) "Highway" means any road, street or way, whether
on public or private property, open to public travel of any kind
in Wyoming. For purposes of this paragraph, "open to public
travel" means that the road section is available, except during
scheduled periods, extreme weather or emergency conditions,
passable by four-wheel standard passenger cars and open to the
general public for use without restrictive gates, prohibitive
signs or regulation other than restriction based on size, weight
or class of registration. Toll plazas of public toll roads are
not considered restrictive gates;
(x) "Motor carrier" or "carrier" means a contract,
private or interstate commercial vehicle operating on highways
as hereafter defined:
(A) "Contract motor carrier" means any person
engaged in the intrastate or interstate transportation of
persons or property by motor vehicle on highways for
compensation;
(B) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.
(C) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.
(D) "Private motor carrier" means any person
engaged in business and operating a vehicle which has a gross
vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, gross combination
weight or gross combination weight rating exceeding twenty-six
thousand (26,000) pounds operating intrastate or has a gross
vehicle weight, gross vehicle weight rating, gross combination
weight or gross combination weight rating exceeding ten thousand
(10,000) pounds operating interstate who, without compensation,
transports over highways his employees or property of which the
person is the owner, lessee or bailee, used in the furtherance
of any commercial enterprise including transporting placardable
amounts of hazardous materials or operating a vehicle designed
to transport sixteen (16) or more passengers, including the
driver. As used in this paragraph "commercial enterprise" means
activities of those persons engaged in the exchange, purchase or
selling of commodities or rendering a service in related
financial transactions;
(E) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.
(F) "Interstate motor carrier" means any person
engaged in the transportation of person or property by motor
vehicle from one (1) state to another for compensation,
including locations outside of the United States.
(xi) "Motor vehicle" means every self-propelled
vehicle intended primarily for use and operation on highways;
(xii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.
(xiii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.
(xiv) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.
(xv) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.
(xvi) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 46, § 2.
(xvii) "State highway" means any highway now or
subsequently designated as a state highway by the state
transportation commission;
(xviii) "Trailer" means a vehicle without propelling
power designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle. The term includes
the following vehicles as hereafter defined:
(A) "House trailer" means a trailer designed,
constructed and equipped as a dwelling place, living abode or
sleeping place, either permanently or temporarily, and equipped
for use as a conveyance on highways;
(B) "Semitrailer" means every vehicle of a
trailer type not equipped with propelling power so designed for
carrying property and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle
that some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or
is carried by another vehicle;
(C) "Utility trailer" means any trailer less
than six thousand (6,000) pounds gross vehicle weight ordinarily
pulled by or attached to a motor vehicle.
(xix) "This act" means W.S. 31-18-101 through
31-18-903;
(xx) "Intrastate" means the transportation of persons
or property between points within Wyoming;
(xxi) "Gross combination weight rating" means as
defined in W.S. 31-7-102(a)(xxi);
(xxii) "Gross vehicle weight rating" means as defined
in W.S. 31-7-102(a)(xxii).