DL After CDL & CA Motorcycle License Class
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Can't speak for CA Raptor ( and a few others) is from there he might be able to help. You will have one license in your home state and any endorsements are good nation wide.
I think NY has a special one for metal coils I'm sure a flat bedder can speak more on that.
Can't speak for CA Raptor ( and a few others) is from there he might be able to help. You will have one license in your home state and any endorsements are good nation wide.
I think NY has a special one for metal coils I'm sure a flat bedder can speak more on that.
Not sure that answered his question. (Also not CA) But I almost lost my motorcycle endorsement when I first got my CDL. Had it not been for a watchful teacher over an administrative person that would've overlooked it, I'd have had to retest for it.
So that *might* have been what happened.
Then again it is CA.. Again hopefully someone from the leftcoast can chime in.
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Dm:
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In working to prepare for a transition to trucking and identifying what can be done in advance, I was wondering about a few license-related things after looking at some older posts on here.
Generally ... drivers only hold a single state motor vehicle license which wraps in multiple classes and / or endorsements - is that correct?
Specifically ... regarding California and the M1 class (motorcycles are not endorsements, they're license classes here) ... can any CA license holders comment on how this works? Does the license become "AM1" (plus any endorsements)?
A CA poster here wrote about 3 years ago that he had to re-do written Class C and M1 tests when he got his CDL-A, and another poster confirmed he'd heard that multiple times. I guess I need to wrap that out at the DMV but hoping that drivers here to whom this applies might just be able to speak from their experience.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
Dm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.DMV:
Department of Motor Vehicles, Bureau of Motor Vehicles
The state agency that handles everything related to your driver's licences, including testing, issuance, transfers, and revocation.