Jalopnik.com editorial on RV Licencing

D & M wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:

D & M wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:
well in MD as well as many states the same license is required for a yugo or for a 26,000 motorhome....

I have to differ with you on this issue Bump. Maryland does require a Class B endorsement for a vehicle over 26,000#. (It's a pound sign, not a hash tag!)

you could differ with me but you would be wrong. ;)
I said that the standard Class C license works for a yugo and for a 26,000 lb. RV. won't work for a 26,001 rv.
bumpy

C'mon man. I was only off by one pound.

I stand corrected.

it takes a big man to admit he is wrong.
bumpy :)

Bumpyroad wrote:

D & M wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:
well in MD as well as many states the same license is required for a yugo or for a 26,000 motorhome....

I have to differ with you on this issue Bump. Maryland does require a Class B endorsement for a vehicle over 26,000#. (It's a pound sign, not a hash tag!)

you could differ with me but you would be wrong. ;)
I said that the standard Class C license works for a yugo and for a 26,000 lb. RV. won't work for a 26,001 rv.
bumpy

C'mon man. I was only off by one pound.

I stand corrected.

Mr Porsche dealer gets my support as soon as they amend his legislation to include special licenses for high performance automobiles. They have statistically way more accidents than motorhomes. Hence why the insurance on one of his $100,000 Porsche's may run a driver $12,000 or more a year, yet that same exact driver can easily insure his $350,000 motorhome for around $3,000 a year.

Should a regular driver's license be good enough to drive a 100,000 dollar plus Class A motor home?

Well, With his suspended (or Revoked) "Ops" (regular operators license) Joe booze bag can go out and drop a hundred or two on a getto beater and go flying down the road 90 MPH and crash into a mini-van killing the mother and children inside (See note below)

If he does he's out a few hundred dollars (plus fines, court costs and such)

I'm sitting in a hundred grand worth of ride you better believe I'm taking a whole bunch of care.

Promised note:
In the actual accident Joe Booze Bag (not his real name but it was his Blood Alcohol Level) was not driving a 200 dollar getto beater but about 20 somthing thousand worth of Denali SUV... The accident was less than a mile from Where I sang in teh church choir. And two of the children killed were students of our lead Tenor.

So I did not make the accident up.

D & M wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:
well in MD as well as many states the same license is required for a yugo or for a 26,000 motorhome....

I have to differ with you on this issue Bump. Maryland does require a Class B endorsement for a vehicle over 26,000#. (It's a pound sign, not a hash tag!)

you could differ with me but you would be wrong. ;)
I said that the standard Class C license works for a yugo and for a 26,000 lb. RV. won't work for a 26,001 rv.
bumpy

Licensing is a joke. I used to hire and fire CDL drivers and it's the individual person, not the license that makes a good or bad driver.

Bumpyroad wrote:
well in MD as well as many states the same license is required for a yugo or for a 26,000 motorhome....

I have to differ with you on this issue Bump. Maryland does require a Class B endorsement for a vehicle over 26,000#. (It's a pound sign, not a hash tag!)

Maryland MVA website

Years ago, MD made you take a regular Class B drivers skills test, but several owners groups and dealership groups lobbied to get a less rigorous drivers skills test for RV owners because nobody parallel parks or backs their RV into a loading dock. Now it is just backing in a straight line and conducting a right hand offset maneuver.

If you take this type of road test you get a restricted Class B that does not allow you to drive any other vehicle that requires a Class B license (dump truck, heavy wrecker, etc.)

As for as a commercial endorsement, you only need that if you convey passengers or freight for hire. That includes RV operators that carry bands, and other groups.

I want to see better licensing for larger vehicles. We see way too many RVers on the road that need to improve their driving skills.

As for the reason we have laws...laws are made because some people are not smart enough to do the right thing unless there is a law to force them to do the right thing.

In Texas you are required to have a class A or B non-CDL for GVWR of 26001# and higher. A class if you are pulling a trailer over 10,000# and a B class with no trailer or less then 10,000# trailer.

The written and driving test are not all that hard and frankly, if you cannot pass these test, you need to go back to a Radio Flyer wagon and a trike.

Ken

dodge guy says wrote:
Exactly! there are far more accidents involving semi`s than RV`s and the semi drivers are regulated by the government. there goes that theory!

There are far more truckers on the roads racking up millions of miles more each year than the folks pulling a RV 100-200 miles on a few weekends a year or a two week vacation each year.

So sure there will be more truckers "involved" in wrecks than the weekend warrior with his RV.

Gov't regulation is rarely the answer for any problem. They don't have a real good track record of imporving anything. The same license that this blogger complains about allows a 16yo to drive his dads Ferarri as well. Laws don't stop idiots from being idiots.

As for tractor trailer/bus vs RV...those are regulated because they're commercial drivers.