New to RVing, GVWR and multiple State DL
Hello everyone! New to the forum, RVing and looking forward to the adventures that open up with RVing. Right now, my local DL office is swamped and not answering this question so I searched the forums...
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As others have said, an RV used for personal noncommercial use does not require a CDL. (Other situations, such as delivering RVs from the manufacturer to the dealer, may require a CDL depending on the weight of the RV.) The definitions of what vehicles require a CDL are determined at the federal level, so they are the same for all states. Some states do require different classes of non-commercial licenses for certain vehicles including large RVs, but apparently Florida is not one of them. At any rate, if you're legally licensed to drive your vehicle in your home state, you can drive it anywhere in the United States with that license.
I don't see how an out-of-state policeman would even know what sort of a driver's license you have based on seeing a vehicle traveling down the road. Even in state, it's hard in as much as they have to make the assumption that the owner of the vehicle is actually the one currently driving it. The RVs were presumably being pulled over for other reasons; maybe they were suspected of being overlength or having other equipment-related violations, or were double towing, or were on a road or in a lane where such vehicles were not permitted. It's hard to say.
I don't see how an out-of-state policeman would even know what sort of a driver's license you have based on seeing a vehicle traveling down the road. Even in state, it's hard in as much as they have to make the assumption that the owner of the vehicle is actually the one currently driving it. The RVs were presumably being pulled over for other reasons; maybe they were suspected of being overlength or having other equipment-related violations, or were double towing, or were on a road or in a lane where such vehicles were not permitted. It's hard to say.
