From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 15:49:43 PST
Everette,
I will have to respectfully dissagree with two points in your post. When
Sonny
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>A few years back when I got my first MV that had gross weight in excess of
all the air is gone in a deuce and a half you still have some brakes, not
much but some, plus you have a hand brake and a transmission to keep it from
rolling. Second point, I have a 1996 Freightliner full size sixty series
and mine rolled down the hill in front of my shop one day, with the brakes
set, so since that I have always chocked a wheel and put it in gear when not
level.
From: "Everette" <194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 7:18 AM
Subject: [MV] CDL
>26,000 pounds, (some over 37,000) and a maxium GVWR of over 210,000
>pounds - (truck, trailer and load)... I will never even get close to
>this......
>
> I checked on CDLs, got the book to study for test, then I discovered my
> truck would not pass the pre-drive exam, nothing wrong with truck; problem
> with truck is the brake system specified by Army will not pass commercial
> specifiications and I can not afford to make the changes. Brakes work
> fine, problem is that when you have no air you have no brakes, hence truck
> sitting still air will leak off and truck can roll. Unlike commercial air
> brake systems, air leaks away on them and brakes are locked in the applied
> position. I dive this truck very little at 2 MPG not much fun.
>
> More reading book lead me to the conclusion that unless I was engaged in
> hauling for hire I did not need CDLs - Tennessee - after much checking
> DOT agreed, however they will not give me this in writing, they suggest I
> make copy of book page that said Recretaional Vehicles do not require
> CDLs.
>
> I have another military truck with gross weight in excess of 32,000
> pounds, I have been through safety check THP road blocks driving it, drove
> past weight scales, never had a probem. Never looked for any trouble and
> never found any.
>
> Everette
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