You can only hold one CDL, so there's no need to pluralize it. Any bus designed to transport more than 15 persons (including the driver), you need a CDL with a passenger endorsement.
If it's being operated for-hire, you need a CDL with a passenger endorsement in any state. In any other instance, you need to get a letter of determination from the NCDOT. Any vehicle designed to transport more than 15 passengers (including the driver) requires a CDL with a passenger endorsement.
You can repo without one. You only need a CDL if you're going to be operating vehicles or combinations which would require a CDL in normal operation. So, if you're repossessing Class 8 trucks, you'd need a CDL. If you're just repossessing a passenger car, you wouldn't need it.
This will depend on: What use the bus is put to. Are you carrying passengers? Then yes CDL required What licence it has on it. Non commercial non passenger may not require CDL Air brakes. CDL required.
Yes. The vehicle would require a Class C CDL with the Passenger endorsement.
No... to drive a bus unsupervised, you need an unrestricted, full-on CDL license, with a passenger endorsement. You may not legally operate a bus - loaded or empty - otherwise.
If it's designed to transport more than 15 persons (including the driver), then yes, you need a CDL of the class appropriate to the vehicle, as well as a passenger endorsement.
All you have to do to get the endorsement is pass the written test and road test in a passenger vehicle. However, if you have a Class A CDL and road test in a vehicle requiring only a Class C CDL, you'll be restricted to operating passenger vehicles in that class and lower.
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.
A CDL is not required until the passenger capacity reaches 16 persons or more (this includes the driver).
Take the written passenger test, road test in a bus. The only passenger vehicles I've ever seen requiring a Class A CDL were the 'cattle cars' when I was in Basic Training, and those might have fallen under an exemption from requiring a CDL... you'll be restricted to whatever class of license is required for the passenger vehicle you'll road test in, so, if you take it in a bus requiring a Class B, you'll be restricted to passenger vehicles requiring a Class B or C CDL.
Nowhere in the US does a 15 passenger van require a CDL. However, 15 persons is the max before a CDL with passenger endorsement is required.