From: Dick (rertman@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Dec 19 2005 - 09:24:27 PST
California has a non-commercial Class A driver's license. Ostensibly for
>From a conversation I had with a DMV employee, CA requires a full CDL if
driving
big motor homes or pulling travel trailers over 15 K lbs. CA does require
the
holder of this license to have a valid DOT medical certificate in his/her
possession while driving such a rig. What CA doesn't require is a driving
test
for the Class A non-commercial license. I have one of these licenses and I
don't recall anything about what non-commercial vehicle it applies to, so
I'd
think it's also good for privately owned MV's.
you build a motor home into a cargo trailer and pull it with a 10-wheel
tractor, such that it's basically a Class 8 rig with an RV built into the
trailer.
I agree that anyone who plans to run a large rig (truck or motor home) over
the public roads should have to pass both a written and driving test to get
a non-commercial Class A license.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: 19 December, 2005 09:01
Subject: Re: [MV] Clarification 2
At 3:37 PM +0000 12/19/05, timothy.smith1@att.net wrote:
>
>By some folks way of thinking, if a guy has an 18-wheeler that he uses
>exclusively for hauling his own stuff (and let's just say he's hauling a
>tank) he doesn't need a CDL. By this way of thinking, (which is wrong)
>we'd have a bunch of guys driving around in 80,000# vehicles with no
>assurances whatsoever, that the driver had a clue what he was doing because
>he was never actually examined! Anyone can pass a written test, but the
>real world is a much different place than a sheet of paper or a omputer
>screen.
But this issue can be arrived at with someone driving one of these:
http://happycamperrvrental.com/images/Zephyr_Outside.jpg
Or one of these:
http://www.mindspring.com/~rmgill/britkit/vehicles/M813A1.fr.jpg
Georgia's currently broken non-commercial Class A/B licenses don't cover RVs
like motor coaches. They're driven with a Class C license. No difference
between a family car and a 40,000 GVW motorcoach. In fact, I had to twist
the arms of the DMVS to get my Non-commercial Class A license so I could
reasonably drive my M813.
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