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Message:: [QUOTE="brian991219, post: 12003973, member: 122252"]Often government regulations make little to no sense. Take for example the exemption from having a CDL if you are a fire fighter or police officer, emergency response technician etc. They can operate large commercial vehicles to and from an active emergency but in many states that same operator, who can race to an emergency, is not legal to drive that apparatus in a parade or to the garage for repairs. Going a step further, the driver that moves that fire truck from the manufacturer to the dealer or fire station must be a fully qualified CDL driver but the fire fighter does not. I'm not picking on the emergency responders at all just pointing out the irony of government regulations especially this one. As for the OP, yes a state employee, even fully qualified with a CDL, is never going to drive a vehicle back to a test site or need to do anything other than tell the permit holder being tested to stop and set the brakes. A third party examiner like myself that is a fully licensed CDL driver and drives almost daily, we would be qualified and maybe tempted but the regulations simply don't allow for it.[/QUOTE]