Is PA "warning" Rvers. (license).
OK...I WILL GO THERE. It is early in the year, might as well get it started. I added the color, but the quote is from the PA DOT site. CLASS A (minimum age 18): Required to operate any combination ...
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leggy wrote:
First I agree that CDL changes everything, however, the way my CDL class B reads is that I can not tow anything greater than 10,000 lbs. In fact I have a friend that was ticketed for pulling an equipment trailer more than 10k behind his pickup last year. Yes, it was with a contractor's truck so became a commercial situation. He was going to fight it but I'm not sure how he made out. This is the first time I have heard about it being applied to RVs. I am going to do some research.
CDLs are never required for RVs used for personal noncommercial uses. What a CDL applies to is regulated at the federal level, and RVs are specifically excluded.
CDLs are also not required for pulling trailers greater than 10,000 pounds if the combined weight of the trailer and the tow vehicle is not more than 26,000 pounds. This leads to the rather odd situation where one can pull, say, a 15,000 pound trailer with a 10,000 pound tow vehicle without a CDL but not an 12,000 pound trailer with a 15,000 pound tow vehicle, even though the latter likely requires less care and skill (and is generally safer overall).
