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James O.'s Comment
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James O.'s Comment
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Days 4,5,6 consist of driving skills for your home state test. Practice,practice, and more practice. Day 7 consisted of Log book entries and study, mapping and trip planning. Day 8,9,10 more driving skills and pre-trip testing. Day 11 is driving or Skills evaluation. Basically testing you to make sure you can pass your skills test for your state license. Trust me come to this school with an open mind.I have been driving Utility line trucks and Dumps and figured i already knew this stuff. As i told the instructor when I was

leaving You can teach an old dog new tricks. Day 13 consist of testing on Log books,Mapping, Trip Planning. I can not stress enough STUDY, STUDY STUDY 8 1/2 hrs of testing. Got my Final Grade of 89.5%smile.gif
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Nice man - we'll round it up to a 90% smile.gif

For those of you getting ready to get your trucking career underway, we have the High Road Training Program for the "study, study, study" part that James is talking about.

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.

HOS:

Hours Of Service

HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
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