Licensing questions
1. If I am licensed to drive my RV in my home state, I am licensed when I go to other states, true or false? So I can't be pulled over and fined for lack of air brake endorsement, for example, if it'...
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Grandpere wrote:wildtoad wrote:
If you were legal in your home state then you should be legal in all states. Otherwise there could be utter chaos travelling across country. At least that's my opinion.
And that is why there is a federal law that stipulates that each state will honor the licensing requirements of the other states. Sorry cannot quote chapter and verse :)
As I recall it is not a Federal law but rather an agreement between the states.. I say this because 40 years ago there were a couple of states that had NOT entered into that agreement and I am told (By a professional OTR truck driver I trust) that it was possible to obtain a license in one of the non-agreement states and then if you got stopped you presented that license (In a member state) or your home license (in the non-member states) and since there was no agreement, there were no points on your record.
However that is no longer true as the non-member states joined up.
That said: does not matter, the effect is the same no matter if it is a Federal Law or 50 states (well 51 if you count D.C.) agreeing on something. (52 of you count confusion and for 53 add denial)
