Refresher Course
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Is 20 hours enough for a refresher course? It'll be 2 10 hour days next Saturday and Sunday. I haven't driven a class A tractor trailer since driving school in March 2016? THE COURSE IS 1 ON 1...
A refresher is what I'm looking into also. Whats the name of the company doing the refresher? Do they have any automatics?
Considering you have no class A experience, IMO 20 hours is light. Is the company that is hiring you going to road train you after completing the refresher course?
Most companies are looking for 80 hours on a refresher (or 1/2 of the usual required time for a full CDL course).
When I spoke with Schneider a year ago (since I've held a CDL for 8 years), they told me 80 hour minimum.
Rick
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.
Yes
Considering you have no class A experience, IMO 20 hours is light. Is the company that is hiring you going to road train you after completing the refresher course?
I was gonna pay for the refresher course out of pocket at a cdl school here in the Atlanta, GA area. The job in which I'm applying will hire students fresh out of cdl school and it's a local job that has you home every night for the most part. So although I graduated from cdl school a year ago I was gonna pay for a refresher course and let them train me on the job, I've done the type of work in which they're hiring for but only in a class b truck.
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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Is 20 hours enough for a refresher course? It'll be 2 10 hour days next Saturday and Sunday. I haven't driven a class A tractor trailer since driving school in March 2016? THE COURSE IS 1 ON 1...