New Changes Massachusetts RMV as of 7/01/16

That's a very smart move for MA to do. I'm surprised though, but it's great news for new drivers.

 

I got mine earlier this year, before those rules went into effect, but they didn't make any difference for me. What does has me surprised is they haven't changed to putting automatic restrictions on the CDL yet, for those who test with autos.

 

Up until this new ruling, if you did an out of state transfer regarding your CDL (from any other state TO Massachusetts) and you could not prove that you had at least two years of CDL experience (and RMV really did require proof) then you had to either forfeit your CDL or you had to retest in Massachusetts.

The irony here is this: Let's say that you had been living in, say, Nevada, and you had been driving OTR for a large carrier. You worked for this carrier for 23 months and racked up 210,000 miles (many miles of which were in Massachusetts).

Then, during a period of lunacy, you decided to change your address to a certain city in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts RMV would not accept the aforementioned previous experience because two full driving years were lacking. No exceptions. Therefore, if you wanted to keep your CDL, you would now be required to pay for a very expensive (and difficult, I might add) road test, as well as a written test. Then, you would pay even more for all the necessary licensing fees.

All previous testing, schooling, licensing and actual driving would be thrown out the window.

Even though you had previously been driving commercially legally in the state of Mass. (along with all the rest of the continental U.S as well as Canada), because you now had relocated your address there, driving commercially would now be illegal, until you re-licensed in that state.

I believe that Massachusetts was the only state in the union to operate this ridiculous, unfair and possibly illegal law.

BTW, I speak from personal experience.

Please Gawd, please let there be a class action lawsuit in the works

 

Didn't you know Martha's Vineyard is Nothing But Retired Truck Drivers Living There?

Cape Cod/Yarmouth are selling waterfront property to the Richest people in the USA- And that would be us- The Drivers!

 

GOOD! The MA RMV sucks! I've actually complanied to them and reported them for the old "proof of driving" crap they used to pull since it wasn't respecting reciprocity. For a while I didn't know if I was moving back and was worried about that.