Originally Posted by blupupher
Originally Posted by alarmguy
If your over 18 with a valid drivers license you do not need a motorcycle safety course and no mention of a MSF.
If you are over 18 and do take the motorcycle Safety Course (not MSF course) they will waive the written test and road test.
Your quoting a privately run site, I am quoting Texas DPS and personal experience.
You need to take a state approved motorcycle safety course, and the only approved course I have seen is the MSF course (basic or intermediate certificates will allow an exemption to the road test).
If over 18 and you already have a motorcycle license from another state, then you do not need to take the course.
Ill take your word for it.
) Since you seem to have gone through it, it just seems hard to believe in Texas, the land of the free and would be the only state that I know of.
Even the TEXAS OFFICIAL WEBSITE contradicts themselves, that is government for you. Again, love the state of Texas as I do my home state which still feels like the land of the free, maybe more so now. *L*
"Motorcycle Drive Test
The motorcycle drive test CANNOT be waived for any applicant under 18. All Individuals must take the motorcycle drive test unless the individuals are:
18 years of age or older, has completed a motorcycle safety course and holds a valid, unrestricted Texas Class A, B, or C license"
(One would think, the road test would not be waived if you did not do the safety course. I still think this is the case?)
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To your credit I also see this, but I am thinking this maybe if the person does not have a drivers license?
Go figure, surprised Texas is so messed up! Geez, even CUJET who lives in CT doesnt have to to a safety course and thats the northeast ha ha. (cujet, I was born raised and lived most my life up there, nothing personal *L*)
"To obtain a Class M driver license, individuals must take a DPS-approved motorcycle safety course and bring the certificate of completion with them to the driver license office. If an individual has a valid motorcycle license from another state, DPS will waive the motorcycle safety course requirement." (maybe this is if the person does not have a regular drivers license?)
HERE IS THE SOURCE