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I just took physical and start school at AIT here in Colorado I am excited
Steve J
Awesome man congrats.
I did my DOT physical and got my permit a couple weeks ago. I head out this Sunday to Lewiston for training with Swift. People can laugh all they want but everyone has to start somewhere! They also have the freight to keep decent mileage and miles are what gets us paid in the end as a company driver so thats what I want. Lots and lots of miles baby.
Goodluck and hopefully we will both be out with trainers here soon!
DOT:
Department Of Transportation
A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.
State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.
I just took physical and start school at AIT here in Colorado I am excited
Steve J
Cool. Good luck to you. I should be staring training in early January myself. I have spent quite a few evenings reading the articles hear on truckingtruth.com. Great insight on what we should expect.
I just took physical and start school at AIT here in Colorado I am excited
Steve J
Cool. Good luck to you. I should be staring training in early January myself. I have spent quite a few evenings reading the articles hear on truckingtruth.com. Great insight on what we should expect.
Myself as well. I have read alot of information here and another truckers forum I wont name. I also used the practice tests on both websites for 4 days off an on in sessions of an hour and passed my CDL permit without any issues and never even picked up the CDL book. Been studying pre trip myself now. Quite frankly I decided to go trucking because I am an introvert, I think alot and I carry out conversations in my head and forget to even speak outloud quite often.
Pre trip scares me for the skills test simply because I have to speak outloud to someone to show I know what it is, when in my world I would be carrying a clip board with a checklist for my real life pretrip as I would like to not forget anything. Silly people need to memorize so much instead of being smart and having a clipboard with a checklist as thats very thorough in my opinion anyway.
Driving im not to worried about, I'm sure I will suck at backing at first as I have no trailer experience but I am sure it will click after a few sessions behind the wheel.
That pre trip test though man that makes me nervous being an introvert with social anxiety haha!
I should be heading into OTR training around the start of January too as the Swift school is 17 days and will end on Christmas day for myself. Hopefully we both get good trainers and no nightmares or foreigners who we cant understand!
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.
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
Just realized I quoted Barry and not Steve the OP heh. Oh well!
Just realized I quoted Barry and not Steve the OP heh. Oh well!
That's ok, His Steve's quote is in my post:-)
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I just took physical and start school at AIT here in Colorado I am excited
Steve J