Re: [MV] To CDL or not to CDL....

From: opcom (opcom@vmsone.com)
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 00:32:05 PDT


Biggest truck I have ever been able to rent without a commercial truck
drivers license was rates 25,999 lbs..

michael@tsixroads.com wrote:
>
> Does Texas follow the federal CDL guidelines? Somehow I have gotten the idea that a class A was for a truck greater than 26000 OR a trailer over 10,000. I live in Northeast Mississippi. In MS the DOT is only interested in big rigs but in Alabama (where
> I buy my green stuff) it is a completely different story. You may remember the story about 2 years ago that I posted about an Alabama DOT instructor coming up to me while I was getting fuel and telling me how many laws I was breaking with my 3 axil trai
> ler with a ambulance body on it. One of his points was that since it was 3 axil it was automatically over 10000 and therefore I needed a CDL. I was pulling it with a GMC dually with a GVW of 10000.
>
> Mike
> Tishomingo, MS
> M1010 and others
> >
> > From: "Timothy Smith" <timothy.smith1@worldnet.att.net>
> > Date: 2002/09/11 Wed AM 12:24:16 EDT> To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org> (Military Vehicles Mailing List)
> > Subject: [MV] To CDL or not to CDL....
> >
> > Let me begin with the usual disclaimers....i.e. your state's laws may vary,
> > etc etc etc.
> >
> >
>
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