What convictions prevent getting CDL?

Even that isn't for CDL's specifically. It's for all CMV's, doesn't matter the license class needed. It might prevent the state from issuing a CDL though.

 

Found this page at FMCSA: part 391 is the qualification page which references the subsection for disqualify.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-49/subtitle-B/chapter-III/subchapter-B/part-391
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-...ubchapter-B/part-391/subpart-B/section-391.15

 

I think as long as you have a valid license you will not have a problem with a cdl school. Now companies that have a school to put you in there trucks would be a different story.

 

What is so hard about reading that the part where this is only for current CDL holders keeps getting overlooked?

No one is saying a CDL can't be taken away. The question is, what prevents one from getting a CDL. Two different things.

 

Everybody is walking past the right answer. If you can hold a regular driver's license you can get a CDL. Now, there are some things you can do AS a CDL holder that can get it suspended, but as long as you can get a regular license you can get the CDL.

 

The only thing I find relevant to this in the Texas Transportation Code is this:

Sec. 522.025. LIMITATIONS ON ISSUANCE OF LICENSE OR PERMIT. (a) The department may not issue a commercial driver's license or commercial learner's permit to a person who is disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle or while the person's driver's license or driving privilege is suspended, revoked, or canceled in any state.​

To me, that says the same offenses that disqualify someone who already has a CDL would also apply to someone applying for a CLP or CDL.

 

Not really. If you read what is required to be disqualified, the very first thing is the driver must be a CDL holder. If he doesn't hold a CDL, nothing on the chart matters as that is a requirement of the disqualification.

From your link above...”If you hold a commercial driver license (CDL) or commercial learner permit (CLP), you may have your CDL or CLP disqualified for a specified amount of time if you are convicted of certain offenses. A list of the most common types of convictions with the disqualification period is provided in the table below."

 

Maybe my perspective is off. I was viewing through the perspective of interstate regs.

Intrastate/Farm is a different set of regs.

 

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Even interstate regs one has to hold a CDL to be disqualified.