cmeade wrote:
I appreciate your trying to be legal in this. Have you considered taking your driving test at ca dmv in Crescent City or Eureka? Then you would need com A or noncom A to ride with you from dealer to dmv while you familiarize yourself and practice driving with learner permit from dealer to ca dmv. Send your driver home and your DW and you are free to travel from crescent city to wherever. Just a thought.
Yes, I actually had thought of that. One problem is that driving tests for the Class A Non-Commercial license are given at only about 30 DMV locations statewide. I'm uncertain whereall of them are but the most northerly may be Eureka.
Since our plans were to pick up the RV in Portland, drive to Seattle and take a meadering trip back to CA we would be driving unlicensed for quite some distance if we were to stick to those plans. Even if we went straight from Portland to CA we'd still be driving unlicensed which we really don't want to do.
I am also uncertain what it is like to schedule a drive test. It may be something you need to do weeks or months ahead of time and that may depend on where you go.
It seems like a lot to juggle: picking up the RV, getting it to a CA DMV test location at a certian date and time, lining up a licensed driver to ride shotgun... not that it isn't do-able and it needs to remain a consideration. I'd much prefer to get my Class A before setting sail if at all possible. I'm making the acquisition of a Class A, my Plan A. Suggestions such as yours are definitely on the Plan B list.
Thanks.
