Has Anyone Gotten Their CDL In Maryland?
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Let me mention in case you haven't been to this section of the site that we do have a listing of Truck Driving Schools By State and here is where you can find truck driving schools in Maryland.
Have you spoken with the DMV in Maryland to find out what their exact policy is? Will they allow you to transfer an out-of-state license into the state without any testing? You'll have to find out what their policy is before you'll know if Company-Sponsored Training will be an option. You may have to go to an independent school in your state if they're really strict with CDL issuance and transfer.
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.
Dm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.DMV:
Department of Motor Vehicles, Bureau of Motor Vehicles
The state agency that handles everything related to your driver's licences, including testing, issuance, transfers, and revocation.
Company-sponsored Training:
A Company-Sponsored Training Program is a school that is owned and operated by a trucking company.
The schooling often requires little or no money up front. Instead of paying up-front tuition you will sign an agreement to work for the company for a specified amount of time after graduation, usually around a year, at a slightly lower rate of pay in order to pay for the training.
If you choose to quit working for the company before your year is up, they will normally require you to pay back a prorated amount of money for the schooling. The amount you pay back will be comparable to what you would have paid if you went to an independently owned school.
Company-sponsored training can be an excellent way to get your career underway if you can't afford the tuition up front for private schooling.
Let me mention in case you haven't been to this section of the site that we do have a listing of Truck Driving Schools By State and here is where you can find truck driving schools in Maryland.
Have you spoken with the DMV in Maryland to find out what their exact policy is? Will they allow you to transfer an out-of-state license into the state without any testing? You'll have to find out what their policy is before you'll know if Company-Sponsored Training will be an option. You may have to go to an independent school in your state if they're really strict with CDL issuance and transfer.
This is directly from the Maryland MVA's website. "The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) does not issue a temporary CDL driver's license of this type nor does it recognize a temporary CDL that has been issued by another state, D.C., or Canada for the purpose of converting or transferring it into a Maryland CDL. A temporary CDL is usually issued when a CD: driver's license applicant (who is a permanent resident of another jurisdiction) attends an out-of-state CDL training school and is tested and certified by that school and or the MVA and is then issued a temporary non-renewable CDL from that licensing jurisdiction. Because the majority of theses new CDL license holders are not a permanent resident and are not truly a domiciled resident of that issuing jurisdiction, most of the CDLs issued by that jurisdiction are normally valid for only 30 - 90 days. Note: It is highly recommended that you contact the CDL training school and the out-of-state Motor Vehicle Administration before you attend any CDL training to find out what type of CDL license you will be eligible to receive. Many applicants unfortunately complete out-of-state licensing processes and are issued a temporary CDL only to find out that they are only eligible to receive a Maryland noncommercial driver's license and that they may have wasted weeks of time and thousands of dollars at the CDL training school." I haven't check with any other company but Swift told me to check with them after I get trained. Swift also told me that Maryland isn't the only state that has these stipulations.
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.
Dm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.DMV:
Department of Motor Vehicles, Bureau of Motor Vehicles
The state agency that handles everything related to your driver's licences, including testing, issuance, transfers, and revocation.
Company-sponsored Training:
A Company-Sponsored Training Program is a school that is owned and operated by a trucking company.
The schooling often requires little or no money up front. Instead of paying up-front tuition you will sign an agreement to work for the company for a specified amount of time after graduation, usually around a year, at a slightly lower rate of pay in order to pay for the training.
If you choose to quit working for the company before your year is up, they will normally require you to pay back a prorated amount of money for the schooling. The amount you pay back will be comparable to what you would have paid if you went to an independently owned school.
Company-sponsored training can be an excellent way to get your career underway if you can't afford the tuition up front for private schooling.
I've decided the cheapest way for me is to go to the local community college and apply for grants. One private school I talk to was $10,000. Way too steep for me. The community college is only $3000, it still expensive for me but maybe I'll get lucky and get a grant or win the lotto.
The closest Swift school to Maryland is the Richmond Va one and they only take people from Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsilvania.
I also have read that to go to any CDL school in Texas you must be a resident of Texas, so maybe its like that.
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.
The community college is only $3000, it still expensive for me but maybe I'll get lucky and get a grant or win the lotto.
Community colleges tend to have excellent CDL training programs and at better prices than most privately owned truck driving schools. That's an excellent choice to consider if you can figure out how to make it happen.
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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I just got off the phone from Swift Transportation and was told that Maryland won't issue CDLs to anyone that's gotten training in another state. Anyone here from Maryland and can tell me what school did they go to?
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles: