15A-7.003. CDL Endorsements

(1) The endorsements to a commercial driver’s license shall be as follows:

(a) T – Double/Triple trailers. Any combination of a truck tractor, semitrailer, and trailer coupled together so as to operate a complete unit, except, triple trailers are not permitted in Florida;

(b) P – Passengers. Passenger vehicle means a motor vehicle designed to transport more than 15 persons, including the driver, or a school bus designed to transport more than 15 persons, including the driver.

(c) N – Tank Vehicles. Means a commercial motor vehicle with a permanent or temporary attached tank designed to transport liquid or gaseous materials and with a rated capacity of one thousand gallons or more.

(d) H – Hazardous materials. Hazardous material that is required to be placarded in accordance with Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations Part 172, Subpart F;

(e) X – Combination tank vehicles and placarded hazardous materials;

(f) S – School Bus. Means a motor vehicle that is designed to transport more than 15 persons, including the driver, and that is used to transport students to and from a public or private school or in connection with school activities, but does not include a bus operated by a common carrier in the urban transportation of school children. The term “school” includes all preelementary, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools. To obtain a school bus endorsement the applicant must pass the school bus endorsement knowledge exam, in addition to other CDL knowledge exams applicable to passenger vehicles, and complete the 3-part skills test in a school bus equivalent to the classification of license that will be issued.

(2) If a driver’s towing operations are restricted to emergency “first moves” from the site of a malfunction or traffic crash to the nearest appropriate repair facility, then no CDL endorsement of any kind is required.

(3) If a driver’s towing operations include any “subsequent moves” from one repair or disposal facility to another, then endorsements requisite to the vehicles being towed are required. Exception: Tow truck operators need not obtain a passenger endorsement.

(4) No person shall operate upon the highways of this state any commercial motor vehicle which requires a specific endorsement unless such person possesses a valid commercial driver’s license with such endorsement.

Rulemaking Authority 322.02(6) FS. Law Implemented 316.003(71), 322.01(17), 322.14(1)(b), 322.121(7), (8), 322.21(1)(e), 322.57 FS. History–New 4-7-91, Amended 2-26-09.