Tlauden wrote:
I may stand alone here, but I think you should need to take a separate DOT test and be endorsed on your license to pull a trailer of any kind/size. I've seen way to many unsafe setups. If you don't know how to properly connect a trailer, or the proper equipment you need, you shouldn't be towing.... They don't just let everyone hop behind the wheel of a tractor trailer, so why should just anyone be allowed to pull whatever they want behind there own vehicle...
As a farm hand working for a farmer that only moves his grain from the field to the farm, or from the farm to a local storage facility, I just hop into a tractor trailer quite often. I have no CDL and it is not required. I had no training, at all, (I wish I had really) I was just pointed to the truck and told to take it to town. I'll be driving it later today, in fact, as we harvest the soybeans.
