Getting a cdl test in a pickup is like kissing your sister....
It is a kiss, but gets you nowhere!
Tag trailer cannot parallel park like a kingpin for one.
That has gotta be one lame ass d.o.t. idea.
Sorry to those who have done it.
Well all I can say is that I guess I got kissed!!
I got my real deal reg Dr License a week after I turned 14. This was back in '64 in Texas. Could have got them at 13 under a so called "hardship." (didn't even have to have insurance back in those days, but it was nice to have if 'ya had a chargeable wreck)
Got my Commercial Dr License week after I turned 18. This entitled me to drive anything that had wheels, just couldn't cross state lines (till 21) & couldn't haul passengers (like in a Grayhound bus) Had to be 19 back then to have a Chauffeur's License. About 2 weeks later got caught up in Arkansas with overloaded semi. Stater hollored & screamed at me, told me "get Hell out'a Ar & don't come back till I was 21!"
Took my Commercial test in a
1/2 ton Chev. I had one, but it only had a mirror on dr side, so I borrowed a friends 1/2 ton Chev that had a mirror on both sides.
No trailer!! Just the P/U. The test surprisingly was absolutely just like my test at 14. Officer riding with me, turn rt, turn left, fast stop, parallel park, drive round town.
Moved to Or in '90, transfered my license over to CDL. Took 4 written test & provided "statement of experience "from someone I had driven semi for in last yr. (BTW, made 2ea 100's, a 98 & a 96 on tests)
As far as what these F250, F350 will haul, can legally haul, it's a VERY different world now compared to what I have hauled with my '90 F350 thru the '90's & early 2000's! I'd probably get locked up for life x10 if I tried to haul today what I've hauled with mine!!!
And BTW, still have my CDL, even as damn old as I am. just getting harder to pass (fake) my eye & hearing part of my physical every 2 yr!!