Terms Used In Tennessee Code 55-10-116

  • Chauffeur: means every person who is employed by another for the principal purpose of driving a motor vehicle and every person who drives a school bus transporting school children or any motor vehicle when in use for the transportation of persons or property for compensation. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Driver: means :
    (A) For purposes of a conventionally operated vehicle, every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Operator: means :
    (A) For purposes of a conventionally operated vehicle, every person, other than a chauffeur, who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle upon a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Railroad: means a carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars, operated upon stationary rails. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, whenever an engineer of a railroad locomotive is required to show proof of identity under this title, in connection with operation of the locomotive, to any law enforcement officer, the engineer shall not be required to display an operator‘s or chauffeur‘s license, or driver license, but shall display an engineer’s operator permit instead.