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Class C CDL with School Bus endorsement.
Class C CDL with School Bus endorsement.
Yes. The vehicle would require a Class C CDL with the Passenger endorsement.
There is no "school bus CDL". You either have a Class C or Class B CDL with a school bus endorsement. A Class C, you can drive any bus under 26,001 lbs. GVWR. If you get a hazmat endorsement, you can transport hazardous materials in any vehicle 26,000 lbs. GVWR or less. If you have a Class B, technically, you can drive any single vehicle with a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating of more than 26,000 lbs, but you're not going to get hired to drive a Class 8 with an unsynchronized manual transmission without any experience.
You can drive one with a Class C CDL with passenger and school bus endorsements, so long as the GVWR of the bus is 26,000 lbs. or less, but you cannot drive one without a CDL.
To drive a party bus you need a special commercial driving license.A safe driver is very important as the occasion could be ruined and the bus carries a lot of liability in terms of passengers.
If it's designed to transport more than 15 persons (including the driver), you will need at Class C (at least) CDL with passenger endorsement.
Yes, but you'll receive a restriction appropriate to the class of vehicle you road test in for your passenger endorsement (e.g., if you road test in an 18k GVW passenger bus, you'll be restricted to buses requiring a Class C CDL, if you road test in a 26,001 - 33,000k bus, you'll be restricted to buses requiring a Class B or C CDL).
Air brakes don't matter insofar as license classes go. If it's a bus designed to transport more than 15 persons (including the driver), you'd need a Class C CDL with passenger endorsement (school bus endorsement if it's a school bus). If it's a vehicle carrying a quantity of hazardous materials which requires placards to be displayed, you'd need a Class C CDL with a hazmat endorsement. Otherwise, an ordinary driver's license (the class varies by state).
Depends on the Gross Vehicle Weight Rating. If it's under 26,000 lbs., you'd need a Class C CDL with the "S" endorsement for school bus (a passenger endorsement plus background check). For the larger ones which gross over 26,000 lbs., you'd need a Class B CDL with "S" endorsement.
Only if you have a passenger endorsement. In your case, it should be easy to get, if the church will let you use the bus for the road test. You simply take the passengers written test, road test in the bus, then you'll have the endorsement.
As for endorsements exclusive to a CDL, you can get hazmat, passenger, and tanker endorsements. You can also get a motorcycle endorsement, which can be placed on any class of licence. The only endorsement you wouldn't be able to get is the endorsement for double and triple trailers.