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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brian991219, post: 12003622, member: 122252&quot;]It depends on the state if the examiner is required to hold a valid CDL to administer the exam. Going way back it was the state police that gave these exams without any credentials at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>As with any other exam, the person giving the test only needs to know the parameters of what is pass/fail nothing more. This keeps them from making up rules of their own or using their judgement to let something slide. I&#039;m sure that happens occasionally but it is not the normal as examiners are audited several times a year as required by federal regulations and often they don&#039;t know the audit is happening until it is over.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a PA CDL third party examiner for nearly 30 years we have always had to be fully qualified- I remember getting certified to administer the exam for the first time in 1993 and I had to nail every manuever and pre-trip perfectly with the state auditors and fellow classmates watching. The qualifications are somewhat relaxed now but CDL program was brand new back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>My oldest grandson&#039;s paternal grandmother also was a PA state employee driver license examiner and up until recently could administer the CDL exam without a CDL although that changed here in PA several years back.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for driving back if the student is not qualified that is not going to happen, the liability is way too great for a state driver licence agency to assume. As a third party examiner I have done that three times, but it was our own truck we were renting to the indvidual (not our student) that just wanted to show up and test. I also did stop one other exam but didn&#039;t drive the rig back, called the office to bring the licensed driver out to us, because should have something happened I likely would not have been covered for driving their truck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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