I agree with you 100%,Mr Turtle.But even though I agee,I still dont think that vans ahould be regulated in this way by the carriers, even though the DOT does not require this.Does this make any sense, what I am trying to say?LOL.
Yeah, I know exactly what you are saying, and I agree. But I also understand the concept of CYA, and that's what carriers are doing. It's kind of like, if you have a couple of moving violations each year, year in and year out, the chances are that you're going to continue to do that. Why should a carrier bring you on when there are other people out there who don't do that year in and year out, and who aren't as likely to accumulate more moving violations?
There are exceptions, of course, like me, where I was getting 1-2 speeding tickets a year, every year, right up until I got 3 in one day, all within a couple of hours. That was 19 years ago. OK, the red Camaro probably didn't help, I got rid of that and got a soccer mommy van, grew up a little, and haven't a ticket since (other than that one "commercial vehicle on a Parkway" nonsense out on Coney Island, but in my defense, I used to live in Jersey, and that's how you go to the airport
).
It's the same with CDLs and HAZMAT endorsements, where experience shows,
more often than not, those who have them actually
do know their aѕѕ from a hole in the ground, whereas,
more often than not, those without them do not. If you have a choice between the "probably knows" and the "probably don't knows", the "probably knows" wins, because they will be more likely to have fewer violations and accidents that will negatively impact the carrier.