getting paid to drive a motorhome

tatest wrote:

ceandries wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:
what type of commercial driver's license would be required?
bumpy

Not 100% sure on this but from what I've read it can be done without a cdl. I believe a cdl is required to drive larger class A coaches.

What needs a CDL is a gray area for lack of enforcement. In some states, if you are driving for hire, no matter what it is, the CDL is required. This includes delivery drivers, hotel shuttles, drivers shuttling vehicles for dealerships and repair shops. Different states draw different lines on "driving incidental to the job" like the plumber who has to drive to the job site.

I needed a commercial (chauffeur) license in Michigan to move cars between dealers and the family body shop. My uncle needed one for courtesy car runs between airport, hotel, Ford offices. This was long before the DOT and Federal efforts toward uniformity that led to the CDL as it is known today.

RV delivery sometimes slips through the cracks, though trips like these are clearly within the intent of statutes that put USDOT on top of regulating CDLs in interstate commerce, setting medical standards, logging, work and rest time.

Most of the transit companies, by making the drivers independent contractors, remove themselves a step from responsibility for CDL compliance. "I'm just a booking agent."