PappyRichard wrote:
For the unknowing:
If you are a California resident,to legally pull a 5th wheel with 15K GVWR in California, you must have a NON-COMMERCIAL CLASS A license.
To legally pull a travel trailer (bumper tow)with 10K GVWR, you must have a NON-COMMERCIAL CLASS A license.
To legally drive a Motor Home that is 40 ft or greater, you must have a NON-COMMERCIAL CLASS B license.
If stopped for any vehicle infraction and it is determined you are driving out of class, you a subject to both a citation fine AND possible tow and store of your rig which adds thousands in $$ to recover same.
RV'ers be ware....
There is an exception that you might squeak through. Here is what I found at the Ca DMV site:
With a class C license one may tow a single vehicle with a GVWR of 10,000 lbs or less
and: If the towing vehicle weighs 4000 lbs or more you may tow a trailer coach not exceeding 9,000 lbs gross.
