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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cbshoestring wrote:DrewE wrote:
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.
Not true.
PA law clearly states the a class A is required for combinations over 26,000 trailer in excess of 10,000. The only class A one can obtain in PA is refered to as a CDL...DO NOT get hung up on the word COMMERCIAL...it is a weight thing, not a WHAT is being hauled thing.
Other states have similar laws---check our own states.
This page from the PA DOT lists both commercial and non-commercial class A licenses (as separate things). The former are CDLs, the latter are not. They explicitly list an RV as an example of when one would need a non-commercial class A license.
It is true that the categories of non-commercial licenses (in PA and in some other states) are based on weights, and use the same limits as the federal CDLs, but that's up to the individual state to decide. In Vermont, where I'm from, the only non-commercial license categories are for motorcycles and for everything else; anyone with an ordinary Vermont driver's license may drive any RV, regardless of weight. That even applies to learner's permits, so far as I can tell.
