Training Kentucky, Looking For Training Maybe A Partner
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Welcome to our forum Melinda!
What are you planning on doing once you have a CDL? I'm asking because it will help me provide you an answer.
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.
Study all you want you can pass permit. Hands on a truck may help you pass CDL bare minimum. Being a driver is different. Go to a company sponsored training they will give you a trainer they tend to want to team. Simple. I have enough experience to train but Haha 9 months OTR not happening. Would not share space anyway. Go company training. Where do you think they will send you to two states? It's a lifestyle somebody would train you but let go of comfort zone.
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.
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.
Welcome to our forum Melinda!
What are you planning on doing once you have a CDL? I'm asking because it will help me provide you an answer.
In the long run, I want to drive OTR probably and team would be good if I find someone I trust/can share space with comfortably. For right now though I need training and I would like to be able to have a couple days to myself once a week or every couple weeks until September so I'm looking to train closer to this area in lower Indiana or Kentucky. Theres a situation I'm trying to keep an eye on here so I want to be close to the area at least every couple weeks. I'm the type that can work nonstop though and pretty easy to get along with.
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.
You know Prime is I Missouri just a hop away.
You know Prime is I Missouri just a hop away.
I know, I just need to be closer to where I am at for the next few months. Does anybody every train their partner in the truck anymore? Thats what my uncle did so I was also hoping I might find someone I could team with in Kentucky.
Does anybody every train their partner in the truck anymore?
Melinda, that approach is very much non-existent anymore. All the insurance companies require new drivers to have a 160 hour training certificate on file at your employer. You can't just find some stranger on the internet who is willing to let you live with them on a truck and consider that as training. It's not going to happen.
If you want to get into the trucking career you need to get whatever is concerning you there in Kentucky over with. It's obviously too big a distraction for you right now. Trucking takes Commitment. You don't seem to have that at this point in time. You've got distractions, and that's not a formula for success.
You're best opportunity is going to be removing yourself from your current distractions and committing yourself to one of the Paid CDL Training Programs. They will train you properly, pay you while you are learning, and provide you a job once you've completed their program. No Ownee/Operator is going to take a total stranger in off the street and train them to drive. It's just not done that way now.
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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I am looking to get training, I've studied the manual for the CDL pretty well but I need actual training in a truck. I am looking for anything near the Kentucky, Indiana area. I haven't found much so far. Does anyone train down there? I don't care if its mom and pop company or a bigger one or even owner operator , I just don't have access to a truck for hands on training.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
Owner Operator:
An owner-operator is a driver who either owns or leases the truck they are driving. A self-employed driver.