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This comes up on Heavy Equipment Forums quite often. Each state can have different requirements, the national CDL requirements are meant as a minimum. My state says that any commercial vehicle with a trailer over 10,001 lbs needs a class A CDL. Other states only require a class A after you get the combined weight over 26,001. Sometimes the magic number is over 26,000, sometimes it's over 25,999. Weights that I can run legally here would have me "out of service" in South Dakota etc.
Check what your state is requiring before you get out on the road.
The idea of photocopying the requirement is a good one too but I'd approach correcting the officer humbly so that you don't get the "microscopic detailed" inspection.
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