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Location: SW Minnesota | Who hauls with anything besides a pickup? What kind, pros and cons..... thanks. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | we have a freight liner....the pros....visibility is 100% better, pulling and stopping are 100% better and the air horn is fun.lol............the cons...........dam thing is a beast and completly useless in mud of anykind or snow........its a fairweather truck
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I have a full sized Freightliner. I agree with the above poster, the visibility, power, brakes, are all 100% better. The negative is its a 10 speed manual which is fine for me but my daughter and friends that travel with me can't/won't help drive. The mud can be a bugger but I drove it home from Lincoln, NE 10 days ago in a snow storm on slushy roads and it handled better than I thought it would. Friends following me in pickups with 4x4 were slipping but I was heavy enough it didn't faze the semi. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Cons....have to have a CDL to drive one and you'll most likely get pulled over and a ticket (and will be detained until someone with a CDL can come drive you home). I've heard the tickets are quite costly as well. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | dianeguinn - 2014-04-24 3:15 PM Cons....have to have a CDL to drive one and you'll most likely get pulled over and a ticket (and will be detained until someone with a CDL can come drive you home). I've heard the tickets are quite costly as well. not here we dont........i have a class5 with air and im fine to drive ours........but ours is also a single axle not a double
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Location: PNW | dianeguinn - 2014-04-23 4:15 PM
Cons....have to have a CDL to drive one and you'll most likely get pulled over and a ticket (and will be detained until someone with a CDL can come drive you home). I've heard the tickets are quite costly as well.
Not true. You do NOT have to have a Class A to drive one. My GRANDPARENTS pull their 5th wheel RV with a full-size Kenworth and neither of them have a Class A, and have been ticketed several times for speeding, but never a mention of insufficient licensure. |
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| svincent - 2014-04-23 6:01 PM
dianeguinn - 2014-04-23 4:15 PM
Cons....have to have a CDL to drive one and you'll most likely get pulled over and a ticket (and will be detained until someone with a CDL can come drive you home). I've heard the tickets are quite costly as well.
Not true. You do NOT have to have a Class A to drive one. My GRANDPARENTS pull their 5th wheel RV with a full-size Kenworth and neither of them have a Class A, and have been ticketed several times for speeding, but never a mention of insufficient licensure.
That could be based on the state. I believe you would have to have a CDL here in Missouri (at least according to my husband). |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | I have a CDL but here in SD its not required since I'm technically not commercial. I have Not For Hire on the side of my truck. I've had my CDL since they came out with it in the early 90's? for our business. |
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Location: PNW | CYA Ranch - 2014-04-23 6:24 PM
I have a CDL but here in SD its not required since I'm technically not commercial. I have Not For Hire on the side of my truck. I've had my CDL since they came out with it in the early 90's? for our business.
This. It's not a commercial truck - you don't have to have your CDL. It's the same as driving something with Farm plates - any licensed driver can drive it all they want. Commercial vehicles are governed by the USDOT, because they travel all over. As long as you have "NOT FOR HIRE" on the side of your truck, you are good to go. Non-commercial trucks ALSO don't have the same plates, pay the same taxes, and don't have to carry bonding on their vehicles. |
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Location: PNW | http://drivinglaws.aaa.com/laws/types-of-drivers-licenses/
Every state's regular ol' driver's license allows you to drive a NONCOMMERCIAL vehicle.
BUT you COULD NOT take a regular truck and haul with it. If it has a USDOT # THEN you have to have a Class A CDL.
For instance: we own a few log trucks and dump trucks - all are licensed and bonded as commercial vehicles. If my "NOT FOR HIRE" semi broke down, I could not just go grab one of our other trucks - BECAUSE THEN it would be a commercial vehicle. It wouldn't matter if they were the EXACT SAME truck - the taxes you pay and the hoops you jump through change when you add a USDOT # to the side of a vehicle.
Moral of the story: whatever you drive, no matter how big, just make sure you have "not for hire" on the side and you can drive it, so could your grandmother if she wanted. |
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Location: PNW | Forgot to add, you have to have a CDL to drive ANY SIZE commercial vehicle (your weight endorsements, etc. just change depending on your haul)
A CDL = commercial driver's license; it is not a BAVDL, which of course is a Big Azz Vehicle Driver's License |
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Location: Central Texas | svincent - 2014-04-24 11:03 AM Forgot to add, you have to have a CDL to drive ANY SIZE commercial vehicle (your weight endorsements, etc. just change depending on your haul) A CDL = commercial driver's license; it is not a BAVDL, which of course is a Big Azz Vehicle Driver's License
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | svincent - 2014-04-24 10:37 AM CYA Ranch - 2014-04-23 6:24 PM I have a CDL but here in SD its not required since I'm technically not commercial. I have Not For Hire on the side of my truck. I've had my CDL since they came out with it in the early 90's? for our business. This. It's not a commercial truck - you don't have to have your CDL. It's the same as driving something with Farm plates - any licensed driver can drive it all they want. Commercial vehicles are governed by the USDOT, because they travel all over. As long as you have "NOT FOR HIRE" on the side of your truck, you are good to go. Non-commercial trucks ALSO don't have the same plates, pay the same taxes, and don't have to carry bonding on their vehicles.
Correct. We also have semi's for farm use only and some with commercial plates. If for instance my semi broke down I could take one of the farm semi's but not the ones plated commercial. I also don't stop at weigh stations. |
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Location: PNW | CYA Ranch - 2014-04-24 11:14 AM
svincent - 2014-04-24 10:37 AM CYA Ranch - 2014-04-23 6:24 PM I have a CDL but here in SD its not required since I'm technically not commercial. I have Not For Hire on the side of my truck. I've had my CDL since they came out with it in the early 90's? for our business. This. It's not a commercial truck - you don't have to have your CDL. It's the same as driving something with Farm plates - any licensed driver can drive it all they want. Commercial vehicles are governed by the USDOT, because they travel all over. As long as you have "NOT FOR HIRE" on the side of your truck, you are good to go. Non-commercial trucks ALSO don't have the same plates, pay the same taxes, and don't have to carry bonding on their vehicles.
Absolutely positutely correct :) |
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