High Road Training

Just a big thanks to Brett and anyone else involved. Went through the High Road Training Program and aced the permit and endorsement tests first try. The trooper at the dmv asked me if I was going to school and how long I studied. I told her I wasn't and a little over a week... She just stared at me slackjawed, lol. I told her to look this place up and she said she'd use the High Road Training Program when she has to take her tests again! Thanks for the wonderful resource here! Now if I can just hurry up and get that bus ticket... -Adam

Way to go Adam! Congrats!

The High Road is indeed a highly effective program. You'll be so glad you put the effort into it.

When is that bus ticket comin?

Congratulations Adam!

I'm glad you mentioned the amount of time you spent studying the High Road material, it is something I wonder about when I hear people say they got their permit.

High Road wasn't up and running when I took my tests (4/09), I used another couple of (paid for) services. I can tell you HANDS DOWN - High Road is way better than all of them.

And best of all IT'S FREE! Kudos to Brett for providing this service.

I drilled the HM section when I went to renew last year - 0 questions missed.

Rick

I agree. My DMV office only has proctors available for like 2.5 hrs. When I showed up she asked what tests I wanted, and I told her everything except School and Passenger. Well she shook her head and said I don't think you'll have time to finish all that and whatever isn't completed is a failure. I said well I'll do what I can hopefully I get the GK and AirBrakes and Combination completed at least. After the paperwork and amenities out of the way, she gave me this stack of tests, the Gen Knowledge , air brakes, combination, tanker, doubles/triples, HazMat. It was about 2:25 pm. I was standing in front of her at 3:17 for her to correct everything. She had that look like I had three eyes. And She couldn't believe , 1. that I finished all of them, and 2. I passed with flying colors on them all. She stated I was the first to do all in that short of time and do soo well. I will say this however, the General Knowledge was written differently than I had seen on the High Road. The questions were similar however the way they were written were what was baffling, I was kind of worried that I wouldn't do well. But I did. Brett you have a great tool here onthis site and boy what a big big help!! I thank you and all that contribute here to help me get going on my second career.

I went to the Idaho DMV to pick up the manual. I started going through it page by page, and it is one giant hot mess. And not the Jack in The Box kind.

It was not in any kind of relevant order. Succinct? Not a chance. It was super hard to follow. I Ditto everyone above Brett. This is huge for those of us looking into trucking.

Should be getting that bus ticket info late next week. I'm already set up for Feb. 2nd. And yes, the High Road has things written in a way that's easy to understand. Some of the Alabama DMV tests seemed to have been written by a chimp...

I've started the High Road training, and it's excellent, indeed!

Once I've taken the test on some material (which, I guess, is usually just 1 or 2 pages worth of the nicely edited "manual"), how do I go back and see the original material?

I see you can click on your result for a given question, and it will quote the relevant sentence(s) from the manual, but it doesn't bring you back to the actual full text.

I've gotten one question wrong a few times, and suspect High Road may give the wrong answer (though, it's probably me who's wrong, of course ;-) ).

Here's the question: https://goo.gl/photos/zvht4Pr1xKTnsshr9

Here's what I thought was the relevant text (from Illinois' CDL manual—I think I saw that High Road was based on Illinois'), which matches what I found in New Hampshire's CDL manual (I'm in NH).

https://goo.gl/photos/i4c8QGCLTMV9RZBF8

Thanks for all the outstanding resources. Incredible!

Joe Linking

Thanks for pointing that out Joe. We've corrected that question.

Thanks for pointing that out Joe. We've corrected that question.

Thanks! It was corrected for a while, but it seems to have reverted now to what is apparently the wrong answer.