Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE › Division 10 - Director of Revenue › Chapter 24 - Driver License Bureau Rules › Section 12 CSR 10-24.305 - Commercial Driver License Requirements/Exemptions

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This proposed amendment modifies language to include
				  a requirement for new and upgrading commercial license applicants to complete
				  the required written testing and obtain a commercial learner's permit and hold
				  such permit for a minimum of fourteen (14) days prior to completing driving
				  skills testing as defined by changes to section
				  302.720,
				  RSMo, and sections 49 CFR 383, 384, and 385 in the Commercial Driver's License
				  Testing and Commercial Learner's Permit Standards rule (Docket No.
				  FMCSA-2007-27659).
(1) To obtain a
				commercial driver license, an applicant must take and successfully pass written
				and driving tests for the operation of a commercial motor vehicle. The issuance
				of a commercial learner's permit is a precondition to the initial issuance of a
				commercial driver license or an upgrade of a commercial driver license if the
				upgrade requires a skills test. The commercial learner's permit holder is not
				eligible to take the commercial driver license skills test in the first
				fourteen (14) days after initial issuance of the permit.
(2) The only drivers operating a commercial
				motor vehicle as defined in section
				302.700,
				RSMo, who are not required to possess a Class A, Class B, or Class C license
				are-
(A) Any person driving a farm vehicle,
				exclusively for the transportation of agricultural products, farm machinery,
				farm supplies, or fertilizers, which may include, but are not limited to,
				ammonium nitrate, phosphate, nitrogen, anhydrous ammonia, lime, potash, motor
				fuel, or special fuel, provided the Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) of the
				farm vehicle does not exceed twenty-six thousand one pounds (26,001 lbs.) when
				transporting these hazardous materials, or a combination of them, within one
				hundred fifty (150) air miles of the farm, if the person is a farmer, a family
				member of a farmer, or an employee of a farmer and who is not a common or
				contract carrier;
(B) Any person
				driving vehicles for military purposes, which includes active duty military
				personnel, a member of the reserves or national guard on full-time training
				duty or inactive duty for training, and national guard military
				technicians;
(C) Any person in the
				employ of a fire organization or a member of a volunteer fire organization
				driving emergency or fire equipment;
(D) Any person in the employ of a federal,
				state, or local government forest service, police department, rescue and
				emergency squads, or departments of safety who drive emergency or firefighting
				equipment which shall include, but not be limited to, riot buses or volunteers
				who perform wilderness search and rescue functions and disaster relief
				activities in government-owned vehicles only when such vehicles are used in the
				execution of emergency governmental functions performed under emergency
				conditions;
(E) Any person driving
				or pulling, strictly for family or personal use, a recreational vehicle as
				defined in sections
				301.010 and
				700.010,
				RSMo;
(F) Any person driving, for
				personal use, a vehicle which is a commercial motor vehicle under section
				302.700,
				RSMo, while transporting personal property of his/her own or of another, but
				not for hire nor as a common or contract carrier;
(G) Any person driving, in connection with
				construction activities, for a limited distance on the highways of this state,
				construction equipment which by design, appearance, and function is not
				intended for use on the highways. This equipment would include motorscrapers,
				backhoes, motor graders, compactors, excavators, tractors, trenchers, and
				bulldozers, but not dump trucks, tank trucks, or any equipment designed to
				transport materials or construction equipment overland; and
(H) Any person driving a vehicle, such as
				amusement park trams, used exclusively on private property and not operated on
				any highway, state, county, or public road.