Sucks to be them.
Good reason for every guy to drive a school bus for the minimum required duration to get a free CDL and training.
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Good reason for every guy to drive a school bus for the minimum required duration to get a free CDL and training.
And if anybody asks why, just tell them you like to sit higher.
That meme is the favorite of all the nitwit punters on facebook truck guy groups. The determining factor is pursuit. If you're towing an excavator, the purpose is ostensibly commercial, which requires commercial licensing/registration of the appropriate classification...unless you either have a hobby excavator collection or tow an excavator to dredge your personal hobby recreational fishing pond...from which you derive no income. You best be able to prove that you are the exception to the rule as you chat to the state police about not having DOT numbers on your door or a med card in your pocket.
And once they deem you to be commercial, they'd hit you for being over length limit.
Farming is a commercial pursuit. So even if you're towing YOUR equipment to maintain YOUR land, you're commercial.
Difference is that for commercial hauling, you might have a boss pressing you to make time, cut corners, skip breaks, etc. Interstate commerce is federally regulated, so thus...the federal regulations. Pawpaw in his vacation rig is on recreational time. The pursuit is different and doesn't fall under commerce, unless he hires a driver or personal assistant to transport that rig for him.
You can drive that class A motorhome to a nascar race without CDL as a resident of most states. (Many require a non-com class-A/B for which the testing/requirements are less stringent). However, as soon as you put an amsoil banner, case of product, and a box of t-shirts in the bay to sell at the races, that's commercial pursuit, and commercial rules apply.
If you're not really familiar with the confusing realm of licensing requirements, best practice is to not talk about it. I say that as a guy who only has Class B and hasn't used it in 6 years now...but it has gotten me out of a few traffic tickets with a warning or non-moving violation.
This is why it's best not to get your licensing info from internet discussions.
Speaking as someone who’s father did the thing in the meme over a decade before it was a meme (not for hot shot though) we were never bothered but he had a class A because he drove bus.
The snub nose leaf spring Oshkosh motor coaches from the 80’s and 90’s are available in short lengths that aren’t much longer than a long box crew cab.
Depending on what you are hauling you should be able to stay under the length limit.
The primary reason you would want an Oshkosh diesel pusher regardless of your licensing is due to the specific type of Cummins diesel pusher and Allison transmission in the coach, they are typically scrap value with low miles sitting on hd frames.
If you need to tow heavy they are basically a semi and no emissions. Better than any pickup even if they are low horsepower.
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Good comments. Posters making comments having very little knowledge of said subject is the norm on here. Obviously you are in a position to know the subject!
I'm no expert, I aim to know the rules that pertain to my situations.
This forum isn't too bad. It's the various hd pickup truck facebook groups, forums, etc., and the RV forums. The patchwork or state rules for non-commercial use means a casual RV owner can be 100% correct for their state of residence but persistently wrong when advising others.
All this chat on CDL does not seem hard to get one, I had one once for college job driving campus. They gave me “some” training, took an CDL test and I was driving a Scania bus for $8/hr in 1992.
I guess with diesel back only 10-15% more than gas it probably starts to pencil out now to make sense to get a diesel over a gas. But run some numbers, for extra cost to buy a reliable diesel, maintenance and I guess the big one and harder to estimate, is repairs. And resale too, high mile diesels are worth more than gas trucks when you get a new truck.
Hotshotting sounds kind of fun, and I like seeing new countryside, hope it works out for you!
Hotshotting sounds kind of fun, and I like seeing new countryside, hope it works out for you!
The meme looks safe compared to some of the trucks pulling containers here out of the port. Of course I see them upside down on I-26 at an alarming rate.
Pretty sure you could drive the truck from the Road Warrior down I-26 without getting pulled over....
Pretty sure you could drive the truck from the Road Warrior down I-26 without getting pulled over....