What Those CA DMV People Did

A CDL "A" has the endorsement with air brakes. Doubles, tankers, Hazmat are each additional ones. If they gave you a tanker, it was probably with Hazmat, if so, you need to go for a Federal background check which has nothing to do with DMV. You need to pay additional fees for the Feds. If your approved(no felonies) they will let you know and DMV you release your license. Here's a tip, when you go for the Federal background check, get the package deal which includes a TWIC card. Save you money.

 

Here in CA allot la lot of the dmvv employees are pretty inept. Try another dmv employee, try the supervisor, try another DMV office. It sucks, but oftentimes that will get you what you need.

I know when I get out of this state I'm not coming back. I just switched from local work to regional/OTR, if my wife and kids weren't in California still I'd tell my company just don't send me back....

 

I'm not sure about California but in missouri and colorado the 2 places I've held my cdl the air brake isn't an endorsement it is a restricrion if you don't take the air brake test they put a restriction on your license,

I believe all states are that way but could be wrong. If you don't have an air brake restriction on your license you should be good to go

 

I don't have any luck at the Texas DMV. September 2015, I got a HazMat endorsement after presenting a certified copy of my birth certificate, TSA check and finger printing, and taking tests. Good for 5 years, right?

5 months later, February 2016, my CDL expired and I went to Texas DMV and she says my Hazmat endorsement is expired, and will have to retest, and TSA check and finger print again. Finger print again after 5 months, really? I just let it go.

And months before that, I decided to self certify my health card in person at the DMV so there would not be any possibility that something would get screwed up. So I arrived at the DMV with my CDL and my health card. I was thinking she would just punch in the information into her computer and that would be it. But no, she clipped my license and I carried around two sheets of paper for three weeks waiting for my hard copy to arrive in the mail. I don't like my license clipped for trivial stuff like that.

 

The problem is that you speak and read English. You gotta wing it when in Rome.

 

What part of CA are you in? I'm in Sacramneto. We have a commercial drivers dmv branch in West Sacramento. They seem to know a lot more than the regulars. Not sure if the rest of the state has Commercial driver only branches. Might be worth looking into.

 

Yes, the rest of the state has commercial test facilities, but they can be a good drive from some people, they are not as common as tegular regular DMV locations.