Motorcycles: A license is required if the size of the motor is 50ccs or higher.
Trailers: A business selling pull behind trailers, that do not contain living quarters, is not required to have a license as a motor vehicle dealer. This includes non-motorized semitruck trailers.
Golf Carts: A business selling traditional golf carts, those that have not been modified for on-road use, is not required to be licensed as a motor vehicle dealer.
Differences Between License Types
- Dealers
- Anyone who sells more than five (5) motor vehicles in one (1) year must become a licensed motor vehicle dealer.
- Salesmen
- Anyone selling vehicles for a dealership must be licensed for that particular dealership.
- Auctions
- Any auction house selling motor vehicles to dealers or the public must be licensed.
- Manufacturers/Distributors
- Any person or firm that manufactures or assembles new and unused vehicles to be sold in the State of Tennessee must be licensed.
- Representatives
- A person who is employed by a manufacturer or distributor and who is responsible for promoting or contacting a licensed dealer for ANY reason in the State of Tennessee must be licensed.
- Dismantler/Recycler
- Any person, firm, association, corporation, or trust resident or nonresident, who is engaged in the business and/or providing facilities for the purpose of recovering parts from automobiles and trucks must be licensed. Those that have been wrecked or otherwise rendered inoperable as transportation vehicles with the parts recovered being for resale and further reducing used automobiles and trucks to a condition capable of salvage for their scrap content by scrap processors must be licensed.
- RV Dealers
- Anyone who sells vehicles designed as temporary living quarters for recreation, camping, or travel use, which either has its own motive power or is drawn by another vehicle must be licensed.
- RV Manufacturers/Distributors
- A person or firm that manufactures or assembles new and unused RVs to sell in the State of Tennessee must be licensed.