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I recently went to a NY state Department of Transportation seminar. Depressing, of course. From what he said and from what I got from the website, I believe I'll now need to have a Class A license for every driver because the law reads that anytime you have a combined weight of truck and trailer over 26k, you need a Class A CDL. And the kicker is that the weight limit is based on the higher of the manufacturer's specs or the actual weight. So, I take it, that having a truck spec'd at 17.5K and a Bobcat trailer spec'd at 10K, WHETHER OR NOT THEY ARE CARRYING THAT MUCH WEIGHT, would require the driver to have a Class A.
As if it wasn't hard enough already to just find employees that showed up on Monday and had a (fairly) clean license.
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