Profile For Tom S.

Gday Derek,

Mate do you have a direct email or some way I can message you? I have an abnormal situation due to living overseas for long periods of time, and would like to ask a few questions regarding my eligibility for your program.

Cheers!

Tom, many states have reciprocal arrangements with other states, provinces, and countries. For example when I moved from California to Ontario and went to get a driver's license I was able to transfer my license from California. That is, I did not need to take a written or driving test and my record was set up to reflect most (not all) of the years I had held the California license - it was five years IIRC.

So I arrived in Ontario, and had a new license with at least five years of driving experience on it.

If I had traveled the other way, I'd have had a similar result in California as the state and the province recognize each others licenses. Now this probably doesn't answer what you asked, but you may be credited with more than zero years of experience.

Cheers let's hope so, I mean I can provide records of my Maine and Washington licenses, as well as records from over seas. Let's hope its worth something, 19 years of driving should count for something haha.

I thought it was mostly a company rule for the one year bit, or am I totally off kilter and its a dot thing?

Actually it is neither. You are going to find that some companies require a two year period of holding a regular drivers license, and some of them will require that it be recent. This will not be the case with everyone though. It isn't really a D.O.T. rule either. It is a state rule as best I can tell, and there are a few states that don't have that requirement. I think Florida is one of them, but I am not sure about the others.

The commercial license is a funny creature in that the state's all have their own rules about it, and some of them go beyond what the federal requirements actually call for. It is still a license that is issued by the state of your residence, so wherever you declare your residency, then that is the state where your license will be issued. Welcome back to the sometimes confusing way we do things here in the "United" States!

Ahh cheers, I just had a quick google and I can't find any minimums other than being 21 and no DUI in the last 2 years both of which I have no dramas with. But in my googling I came across some confusion. I'm hoping to look at primes driver training program so I had a peek at Missouri's cdl DVM page and found something that seemed to contradict it self. Maybe I'm just confused, do you change your DL from your home state to there then back after you get your cdl? I'm sorry for asking silly questions, I've just got used to a rather small and simple government system and the us system completely blows my fragile little mind haha.

Cheers, T

Tom, I honestly do not know the answer to your question. If you know which state you are going to be living in, I would start looking into their web site, and or make a few phone calls to their Motor Vehicle department and ask about it. I realize that is not very helpful, but maybe someone will come along with some experience in this situation that can better answer you.

Best of luck, and if you find something out we'd love for you to share that information with us so that we can help others in the future with your unique situation.

Yea getting the class 3 is no drama as I'm over 21. I'll be in Maine and as far as I can tell there no restrictions on the cdl other than you have to be over 21 for interstate and the 14 day permit. I thought it was mostly a company rule for the one year bit, or am I totally off kilter and its a dot thing?

Cheers, T

OK so I have been digging around the forums a bit and I think my situation is slightly unique, so much as I haven't found and answer to my question. So I a us citizen and got my class 3 (car) license when I was 16 and held it until I was roughly 25. From 24 to 35 I have lived over seas and held a class 2 truck license (ridged vehicle single axle max gvm 18 tonne). I'm now moving back to the us and getting a us license again (class 3). So I guess my question is does the one year license apply in my situation? Any advice or leads would greatly be appreciated.

Cheers, T