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Originally Posted by Alisa
Here in the US (or at least in California) you do not need to pass the test with a manual transmission to drive one.
A side note on the large SUVs: I was getting some business done at our Department of Motor Vehicles one day and since there was a fair amount to do I spent some time chatting with the lady taking care of me. She told me that people rarely take their driving exam in an SUV. They are almost always done in regular cars. She said she (and many of her coworkers) wished that there was a requirement to take the test in one if you were going to drive one. Unfortunately people feel like they're so much safer in them due to the size and don't realize that most don't drive like a normal car.
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not only does all of the above not matter, it doesn't matter when you graduate to RVs. I had a 32 foot RV and was not required to get any special license for it. fortunately I'm a pretty decent driver and had been licensed up to 5 ton trucks when I was in the Army, but no one knew that. there are a lot of different things you need to do and think about when driving such a beast. my ex only put about 1k of miles on it and he was also a pretty good driver, but he put every scratch on it. side swiping things is VERY easy to do in those (among other things).
as far as I know in most US states you are only required different licenses for motorcycles and multiple axled vehicles. trailers, up to travel trailers, horse trailers, etc don't even require anything special.