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May 8, 2009 | 06:18 AM

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chaikwa

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From: Kalamazoo, Michigan

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Originally Posted by strokerace

I dont know what floridas cdl and dot laws are...

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Originally Posted by GAmes

They are all the same. You must have missed that chapter while studying the book from front to back.

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Originally Posted by Bonshawman

Beware - in FLORIDA if you take a CDL-A test using a truck with a GOOSENECK (not 5TH WHEEL) connection your license will be limited to "gooseneck only".
Check with the DMV. That means you won't have the option of driving a commercial truck other than a hotshot or bigshot rig.

If you take the test with a 5th wheel you'll obtain an unrestricted CDL-A (assuming you pass...)

Good luck

Good advice from Bonshawman. The CDL laws are NOT the same from state to state. There are Federal minimum requirements that each state must conform to, but beyond that, the states can make them more stringent as they desire. They have to honor another states drivers' CDL even if it is more relaxed but they can do what they like with their own licensing requirements as long as they meet the Federal minimums.

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May 8, 2009 | 12:12 PM

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rich

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From: Kerrville eastern new mexico, west texas

yep cuz here their is no gooseneck only in the class a

May 13, 2009 | 04:16 PM

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Coolride

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Got mine at a local vocational school, $1000/,and three months later I had my CDLA. The instructor hooked me up with a job driving frozen foods around in a regular box truck near my home, for the same bucks most of the OTR guys were making.