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So is it saying that those folks can do farm work without a CDL , but if they want to get an actual CDL license THEN they must take the written, skills, and road tests?
Yap, that's exactly right. Indeed they did find a rather confusing way to say that! That was taken word for word from the CDL manual.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
Thanks Brett.
Ya don't need a cdl if ur operating farm equipment but it must be licensed as that so if ur driving a semi that is for the farm it needs to licensed as such and have an orange triangle on the rear,also fire and rescue doesn't need a cdl but needs also to be licensed as that. But if ya wish to drive inter or intrastate then yes ya need a cdl.
Hope this helps
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Intrastate:
The act of purchasers and sellers transacting business while keeping all transactions in a single state, without crossing state lines to do so.
Well said Rebel !! The rules for farm operation of semis and straight trucks is so weak...And during harvest, you see the wrecks...every corner, steep down hills..but the really bad thing is, the drivers get paid by the load....so do they sleep ??? not enough....and since you can have diabetes and drive farm...theres been atleast one wreck from that a year here. Its a crap shoot. But most of the big farms are now demanding that you have a CDL A, makes their insurance happy.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
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Greetings All,
This site has encouraged me to begin studying for my CDL and a trucking career. I started the "High Road" CDL Course and have run into a snag on section 1.3
"NOTE: For the drivers of truck-tractor semitrailers, the farmer, his or her spouse and their children, parents on both sides, brothers and sisters on both sides and their spouses operating a truck-tractor semitrailer and meeting the above criteria also are exempted from the CDL Program. These drivers must be at least age 21, and the vehicle must have Farm plates. These drivers are still required to take the appropriate CDL written, skills and road tests to be licensed."
I must be taking something wrong because this seems contradictory to me. On one hand it states that the folks mentioned are "exempt from the CDL program.:
Then goes on to say "these drivers are still required to take the appropriate CDL written, skills, and road tests to be licensed."
So is it saying that those folks can do farm work without a CDL, but if they want to get an actual CDL license THEN they must take the written, skills, and road tests?
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.