Question About High Road Online CDL Training Program Conflicting With MVA's Handbook

The High Road Online CDL Training Program says that your CDL can be revoke for 6 months if you violate an out of service order. Maryland's handbook says your CDL can be revoke for 90 days for the first violation, 1 year for 2 violations within a 10 year period and 3 years for 3 violations within a 10 year period. I don't intend on violating any out of service orders but I'm wondering if this question comes up on the test do I go with Maryland's regulation or DOT's regulation, which I assume is what the 6 month rule comes from? Usually Federal regulations trumps state but sometimes not. Maybe I'm overthinking this, hmmmm.

Most states have generally the same book with a few small differences. In this case your MD book says something different about the out of service rules. Always go with what your state book says because that's what the questions will be based on. As far as what will be asked, it will be random. They don't touch on every detail in the book. One thing I noticed though is, if the information has a number attached to it then remember it.

Good luck

Thanks Heavy C

Indeed Heavy C nailed it. Each state is just a bit different and it's usually minor things like a slightly different way of calculating following distance or the revocation laws you mentioned. But 98% of the various state manuals are the same. If you go through The High Road Training Program you can be sure you're going to get awesome scores on the permit test and endorsement exams in any state coast to coast. Even if they happen to ask about something that's slightly different in your state it wouldn't amount to a difference of more than one or two questions on the entire exam and you wouldn't miss a single bit of important information.

So you can read through your state's CDL manual if you like just to see if there are any glaring differences but it certainly isn't necessary. Personally I think the time is much better spent completing as much of our program as possible. The hundreds of review questions and quotes from the CDL manual are going to teach you a heck of a lot more than just reading over your state's manual.

Brett I hope I didn't come off as criticizing The High Road Training Program because I really think that this is a great tool and I recognize the amount of work you put into it. Comparing it with the Maryland manual I find very little difference but it's just me I'm a little OCD and I want to ace the test just not pass it.

Brett I hope I didn't come off as criticizing The High Road Training Program because I really think that this is a great tool and I recognize the amount of work you put into it. Comparing it with the Maryland manual I find very little difference but it's just me I'm a little OCD and I want to ace the test just not pass it.

Colleen, there's no reason to worry. The High Road Training Program will put you in a position to "ace" the tests. There are thousands of testimonials to that. If anybody understands OCD, it's Brett - I mean that one section of this web site alone tells you that he gets carried away with doing things right. That program was so obsessive with making sure I got it right when I was preparing for my tests that I thought it was going to drive me crazy.

It's already been said, but every once in a while you will find a small difference from state to state on some minor issue, but it is so minor that it is most unlikely you will ever see that particular information on the actual tests. Good luck to you, and don't worry, about the result so much as you do about the preparation. If you commit to finishing that High Road, you will ace those tests - I guarantee it.

If anybody understands OCD, it's Brett - I mean that one section of this web site alone tells you that he gets carried away with doing things right. That program was so obsessive with making sure I got it right when I was preparing for my tests that I thought it was going to drive me crazy.

That's right!

Brett I hope I didn't come off as criticizing The High Road Training Program because I really think that this is a great tool and I recognize the amount of work you put into it. Comparing it with the Maryland manual I find very little difference but it's just me I'm a little OCD and I want to ace the test just not pass it.

No not at all. I completely understand and I would have questioned the same thing if I was going through it to get my CDL permit and endorsements. I like when people want to put everything they have into what they do. I'm the same way. So I don't mind answering questions about our program one bit.