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I have some very serious doubts about this. Uber may be able to skirt the law for transporting people, but if these drivers are acting as commercial haulers, th

by rpcope1 11y ago

I have some very serious doubts about this. Uber may be able to skirt the law for transporting people, but if these drivers are acting as commercial haulers, they really probably need both a CDL in the US, and their vehicles need DOT numbers and the service to be registered as a freight broker, as well as everything that comes with that turf. This is one of those things that really is regulated for a good reason. If the DOT's treatment of other people around here skirting around without DOT numbers moving freight commercially is any indication, this probably won't (and shouldn't) end well.

tzs 11y ago
I suspected similar, but did a bit of Googling, and to my surprise it appears a CDL would not be required. The criteria for when you need a CDL seems to be based on inherent characteristics of the vehicle (weight, number of passengers it can carry, for example) rather than on what you do with it or whether or not that is commercial. Drivers just using ordinary SUVs and pickup trucks and vans appear, on first Google, to be fine with an original drivers license.