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Nice! Congrats!!!
That gives you several days to attack the Logbook and Weight & Balance sections of the High Road CDL Training Program. That's stuff you're going to need to know inside and out for your career and there's no better way to learn it than we've put together.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Logbook:
A written or electronic record of a driver's duty status which must be maintained at all times. The driver records the amount of time spent driving, on-duty not driving, in the sleeper berth, or off duty. The enforcement of the Hours Of Service Rules (HOS) are based upon the entries put in a driver's logbook.
Nice! Congrats!!!
That gives you several days to attack the Logbook and Weight & Balance sections of the High Road CDL Training Program. That's stuff you're going to need to know inside and out for your career and there's no better way to learn it than we've put together.
I will absolutely be working on that. The sections I did were incredibly helpful for the permit test. Actually the permit test was easier than what you put together. It was all multiple choice with only three answers. I will outline it here in case anyone else from Michigan is curious what it will be like.
First there is a 50 question test on general knowledge including driving, braking, and keeping cargo safe. You must get 40 right. As soon as you get 40 right the test stops (so I only answered 42 questions and it stopped because I had gotten enough right to move on).
Second there is a 20 question test on combination vehicles (mainly about attaching and detaching the trailer as well as rearward amplification and jackknifing). You had to get 16 right.
Third there was a 25 question test on airbrakes. Those PSI nubmers the highroads tells you to learn (lose 2 PSI in one minute for a single a 3 PSI in one minute for a combination if the break is not held) definitely come up among other things. You must get 20 right to pass.
After taking all three you go back to the counter, pay $25, and get your temporary instruction permit. I can't recommend the High Road Training Program enough to anyone preparing for their permit test.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Logbook:
A written or electronic record of a driver's duty status which must be maintained at all times. The driver records the amount of time spent driving, on-duty not driving, in the sleeper berth, or off duty. The enforcement of the Hours Of Service Rules (HOS) are based upon the entries put in a driver's logbook.
Combination Vehicle:
A vehicle with two separate parts - the power unit (tractor) and the trailer. Tractor-trailers are considered combination vehicles.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
The multiple test you took was not that easy. Really. What made it seem easy is the High Road here over prepares you for the testing going way over and beyond.
I guarantee you that had you only used the cdl manual or tried to learn the answers in a two cram section that is school you would not have found the state test so easy.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
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CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles: