Comments By Lyght

I do have another question but I don't want to make a new thread before I have a few. :) In reading the CDL manual should I read all of it and try to learn it all? I'm going to be driving for XPO and they want me to come in with my Class A permit, and with in 120 days of being hired want me to get my Hazardous Materials endorsement. The manual says to get those I should study sections 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 11,12 and 13. I don't want to skip the others (4, 7, 8 and 10) and then fail my exam over that. At some point I would like to get all the endorsements as the site suggests but while getting started I want to keep it simple so I don't take on to much and fail. I already did section four, so those other three really wouldn't kill me I guess but I don't want to put to much effort into studying for them if they wouldn't be on my permit exam.

I have noticed most of the time when I get an answer wrong, when I go back to check it that I just didn't read the question fully. Trying to rush to much though it so I'm going to take your guys advice (thanks by the way) and slow down a bit.

Never mind. I feel stupid now. I missed "except" I would delete the post if I could.

I'm loving the High Road Training Program, its a little slow with a quiz at the end of each page but it really seems to be helping me remember the stuff.

MC1371 thanks for the link I'll give that a listen to. When I'm not studying it'll be good back ground noise to hopefully heck enforce it in my memory.

Sorry the subject isn't the best. Anyway I'm working my way through the cdl training program on this site and one of the questions/answers confuse me, I'm hoping someone can explain it to me.

Q) The following are all causes of Front-Wheel Skids except: A) Driving too fast for conditions B) Cargo loaded so not enough weight is on the front axle C) Too much tread on the front tires D) All of these are reasons for front-wheel skids

A and B make sense to me, but C doesn't. So I'm not thinking the answer would be D. However, the page says that C is the correct answer.

But...

Quote From The CDL Manual:

"Front-Wheel Skids - Most front-wheel skids are caused by driving too fast for conditions. Other causes are lack of tread on the front tires, and cargo loaded so not enough weight is on the front axle. In a front-wheel skid, the front end tends to go in a straight line regardless of how much you turn the steering wheel. On a very slippery surface, you may not be able to steer around a curve or turn.

When a front-wheel skid occurs, the only way to stop the skid is to let the vehicle slow down. Stop turning and/or braking so hard. Slow down as quickly as possible without skidding."

In the quote it says lack of thread not to much thread. Is that a typo in the answer or am I just not understanding it right?

So far I've been reading the manual and answering the end of the section questions. I also found an audio version of the manual on youtube but it was honestly to boring to be of any value I might look for another one. Now I'm reading the manual and using the CDL Training Program on this site. The training program is basically the same as reading the manual but with a quiz at each page its really enforcing a lot of the stuff I need to learn. So far I've found that I'm having a hard time on the braking math other wise I'm understanding and learning it pretty easily. I really should have been doing this a long time ago. At first I was going to drive from Prime and they didn't require a permit when joining so I didn't worry about it, now I wish I did. Either way, I'm wanting to finish the manual (and training program) by Wednesday and hopefully take my permit test by the end of the week.

I'll double check with the recruiter I talked to but I thought she said it was 90 days that we'll be separated for. My main worry with being trained apart is that we might butt heads on things because we learned them differently, hopefully you have something there about the different perspectives being being a good thing. I mean I can see how it could come in handy when new things pop up along the road though.

I didn't even think to look on youtube thanks for the advice on that.

So far I finished section 2 of the manual I could likely go faster but I'm trying to member as much of it as I can and I'm taking notes re-reading parts of it. The pictures I'm trying to memorize all of them and were everything is on the images, I'm most likely over thinking it.

Thank you.

Does anyone know where I can find an audio version of the CDL manual? I'm reading the paper one and while its only 150 something pages long, I would like to have an audio one to listen to while I'm multi tasking and doing other things. That way I'll have both read, and listened to a version of it. I also took a few practice tests on this site and the Test Your Knowledge questions at the end of each section and the two are very different from each other, which one would I be more worried about studying?

I'll do my best to keep you updated. Today we're working on going through the CDL manual, I've taken the practice CDL exam on this site (which is a big help again a huge thank you to the people running this place) just trying to common sense my way through it and so far haven't gotten less than a 70 on it, not enough to pass the exam but high enough I'm feeling pretty good about it. I'm doing the XPO training I'm honestly a little confused on what their schooling will consist of since they require a permit before going and that covers most of the book. Still excited about it though. How do you feel about the 3 months of separate behind the wheel training?