Class C CDL Instead Of B
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How about if you could go directly to A, and skip the Cs & Bs.
If you are otherwise able, you can have a promised truck driving job and arrangements for CDL-A school within a week.
Many truck companies will either cover the tuition, or put you through their own school. The trade-off is you contract to drive for them for a year or so.
Here's some reading:
- Truck Driver's Career Guide
- Brett's Book: The Raw Truth About Trucking (free online version)
- High Road Training Program
Apply For Company-Sponsored Training
(There are more companies than are on this list)
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.
Company-sponsored Training:
A Company-Sponsored Training Program is a school that is owned and operated by a trucking company.
The schooling often requires little or no money up front. Instead of paying up-front tuition you will sign an agreement to work for the company for a specified amount of time after graduation, usually around a year, at a slightly lower rate of pay in order to pay for the training.
If you choose to quit working for the company before your year is up, they will normally require you to pay back a prorated amount of money for the schooling. The amount you pay back will be comparable to what you would have paid if you went to an independently owned school.
Company-sponsored training can be an excellent way to get your career underway if you can't afford the tuition up front for private schooling.
I have been looking into the company sponsored schooling. But during the time I would be in their school I won't get paid until I'm training. And I got some bills I got to take care of. Unless their is one that pays during school and training ?
Roehl I believe pays you during school. Prime allows you to take up to $200 in an advance each week during schooling.
I'm looking at roehl. I will call them Monday. I'm going to stay with my company for another 6 months. Or until they find a back up driver. Which ever comes first. Would I have to take general knowledge and air brakes computer test all over again ?
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In the middle of my pre trip inspection the examiner realized the gross weight of the truck 26,000 ... and I already had my class B permit. And this only truck my company has. So they to change my license to CDL C. And now I'm kind of ****ed because I wanted B. Do I really have to redo every single thing from the start to upgrade to B ? I will eventually go to A when I can financially. But for the time being B will do.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles: