Does your home jurisdiction require air brake endorsement?

peaches&cream wrote:
As I said in a previous post, some posters just cannot accept the current laws as they are written. They want everyone to have restrictions on their license, they don't know why, but they do. How bout if you require a CFII, MELII, GI, CFC, CHFC, CPCU, and any other Designation you want. I have them, will not make me safer, but guess what, Maybe you need them before you can operate your MH. :S

Yes I think you do as it makes one a better wiser safer DP class A driver

How many people have Air Brakes?

Of them, how many know how to fully test your air brakes?

The 'endorsement' follows a test of a procedure to test the correct operation of your air brakes and for those that do not have the endorsement, can you explain the step by step method of testing them?

If not, they one day you may wish that you had performed the test.

John & Angela wrote:
Yep in Alberta. Easy and informative day and a half. Would recommend it to anybody.

BC Also. X2 the J&As comments.

Yep in Alberta. Easy and informative day and a half. Would recommend it to anybody.

As I said in a previous post, some posters just cannot accept the current laws as they are written. They want everyone to have restrictions on their license, they don't know why, but they do. How bout if you require a CFII, MELII, GI, CFC, CHFC, CPCU, and any other Designation you want. I have them, will not make me safer, but guess what, Maybe you need them before you can operate your MH. :S

doxiemom11 wrote:
I don't think any endorsement makes a difference. The people who will drive in erratic ways, tailgate and speed will keep doing it with or without the endorsement. Bad drivers are bad drivers no matter what they are behind the wheel of.

Two different subjects.Air brake course and endorcement has nothing to do with safe driving.its designed to make you fully aware of what where and how air brake system works and all PM requirements with such a system.I have driven a lot of miles in a classA DP and have passed and been passed by many and I have never seen a diesel pusher operater act in a unsafe or irrational maner

Tom/Barb wrote:
Washington state has no special requirements to operate any privately owned vehicle. No mater how much it weighs or what type of brakes it has.

And we like it that way, because there are no accident stats to prove we need training on how to push down on a pedal.

X-2, But you do need a permit if your RV is hauling 2 other trailers behind your coach. You need working brakes to all trailers and a long load placard.

BobGed wrote:
From what I have read I believe most Canadian provinces require an air brake endorsement. In the US there are states such as CA and ID that don't even require a special driver's license to operate a coach weighing 26,001+ lbs, let alone issue an air brake endorsement.

I reside in NV and while I have a non commercial Class B and was tested on my air brake knowledge, I was not issued an endorsement.

Bottom line is an air brake endorsement and/or special license requirements vary by state.

When I received my Nevada Non commercial class "B", The examiner said "You will have the Air Brake endorsement, unless we specifically exclude Air brakes".

Terry.

PA now has three classes of non commercial driver's licenses. A, B and C which are defined by the weight classification and towing limitations and directly references motorhomes in their descriptions. MH's under 26,001# would seem to be exempt from the need for an enhanced class of license unless towing a trailer with a weight rating of 10,000# or greater if my memory is correct.

It is not widely known about in the RV community to the best of my knowledge, but the info is available on the PADOT web site. I have looked at it, but couldn't begin to tell anyone how to determine from that info what it would take to change your standard license to one of the classes shown above.

Since I have a Class A CDL I didn't feel any need to learn anything more so I abandoned my research.

No and no CDL required for any RV.