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Thanks for your service. Biggest mistake of my life was not staying in the Navy.
Best of luck to you - and keep us posted about your progress @ Jim Palmer.
Rick
Thanks for your service. Biggest mistake of my life was not staying in the Navy.
Best of luck to you - and keep us posted about your progress @ Jim Palmer.
Rick
I always thought the biggest mistake of my life was not JOINING the Navy to begin with. I didn't because my parents forbade it.
Jimmie and Rick:
Thank you BOTH for your service to our country. I ALWAYS try to support our veterans any way I can whenever I can.
Hey, best of luck Jimmie! Keep us posted as things get going for ya.
If you haven't already, dive into our High Road Training Program and hit it hard. The more you can learn now before you get to Montana, the better. They're going to throw piles of information at you hard and fast. Get a big head start now and get ahead of the class. And don't just stop with the permit and endorsements. Do our Logbook section and Weight & Balance. You'll need to know that stuff every day of your life out there.
Trust me, you'll be thanking yourself a million times over if you show up well prepared.
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.
Logbook:
A written or electronic record of a driver's duty status which must be maintained at all times. The driver records the amount of time spent driving, on-duty not driving, in the sleeper berth, or off duty. The enforcement of the Hours Of Service Rules (HOS) are based upon the entries put in a driver's logbook.
Hey, best of luck Jimmie! Keep us posted as things get going for ya.
If you haven't already, dive into our High Road Training Program and hit it hard. The more you can learn now before you get to Montana, the better. They're going to throw piles of information at you hard and fast. Get a big head start now and get ahead of the class. And don't just stop with the permit and endorsements. Do our Logbook section and Weight & Balance. You'll need to know that stuff every day of your life out there.
Trust me, you'll be thanking yourself a million times over if you show up well prepared.
Hey Brett, the android app you have for the CDL practice test, does it record scores into the High Road Training Program? I ran through each category on the app last night and didn't move on to the next until I earned 100% on each one. Air Brakes is where I struggled the most.
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.
Logbook:
A written or electronic record of a driver's duty status which must be maintained at all times. The driver records the amount of time spent driving, on-duty not driving, in the sleeper berth, or off duty. The enforcement of the Hours Of Service Rules (HOS) are based upon the entries put in a driver's logbook.
Hey Brett, the android app you have for the CDL practice test, does it record scores into the High Road Training Program? I ran through each category on the app last night and didn't move on to the next until I earned 100% on each one. Air Brakes is where I struggled the most.
No, it's a separate app from High Road. It won't save your scores.
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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