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Here's how our High Road Training Program breaks down:
Study For The Permit:
~ Rules & Regulations
~ Driving Safely
~ Transporting Cargo Safely
~ Air Brakes
~ Combination Vehicles
~ Pre-Trip Inspection
~ Driving Exam
The main sections for your endorsements which are optional but we highly recommend you get:
~ Transporting Passengers
~ Tankers
~ Doubles And Triples
~ Hazardous Materials
And two sections we've built ourselves with info you'll need for everyday life on the road but the manual doesn't really cover it:
~ Logbook
~ Weight & Balance
Pre-trip Inspection:
A pre-trip inspection is a thorough inspection of the truck completed before driving for the first time each day.
Federal and state laws require that drivers inspect their vehicles. Federal and state inspectors also may inspect your vehicles. If they judge a vehicle to be unsafe, they will put it “out of service” until it is repaired.
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.
Combination Vehicle:
A vehicle with two separate parts - the power unit (tractor) and the trailer. Tractor-trailers are considered combination vehicles.
Doubles:
Refers to pulling two trailers at the same time, otherwise known as "pups" or "pup trailers" because they're only about 28 feet long. However there are some states that allow doubles that are each 48 feet in length.
Here's how our High Road Training Program breaks down:
Study For The Permit:
~ Rules & Regulations
~ Driving Safely
~ Transporting Cargo Safely
~ Air Brakes
~ Combination Vehicles
~ Pre-Trip Inspection
~ Driving Exam
*freaks out* Thank you for your swift answer Anchorman.
Pre-trip Inspection:
A pre-trip inspection is a thorough inspection of the truck completed before driving for the first time each day.
Federal and state laws require that drivers inspect their vehicles. Federal and state inspectors also may inspect your vehicles. If they judge a vehicle to be unsafe, they will put it “out of service” until it is repaired.
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.
Combination Vehicle:
A vehicle with two separate parts - the power unit (tractor) and the trailer. Tractor-trailers are considered combination vehicles.
*freaks out* Thank you for your swift answer Anchorman.
No problem! If you go through the High Road Training Program , then you will be way ahead of the game. You should have no problem passing the tests!
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.
I do feel like I'm going to learn a lot of stuff through this course (I already have) I also enjoy the fact that it goes back to old topics and questions and really drills the stuff into my head......it is also neat that I realized that it gives me review questions even when I go back to the first section and review some of the older stuff.
.it is also neat that I realized that it gives me review questions even when I go back to the first section and review some of the older stuff.
Absolutely! You can do the course in any order. You can skip around, go backwards, or do one page fifty times if you like. Doesn't matter. The system will feed you questions from the page you're on along with review questions based on the work you've done since the beginning. So it continuously adjusts to your performance and gives you help wherever you need it the most at any given moment.
That's the key reason why the High Road Training Program is so effective. It evaluates everything you've done from the beginning and picks the review questions based upon how many times you've seen each question and how many times you've missed each question. The ones you've seen the least or missed the most will continuously be cycled in front of you. Once you get a good score on a particular question and you've seen it at least a couple of times it sets that question aside and focuses on others ones.
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.
I do feel like I'm going to learn a lot of stuff through this course (I already have) I also enjoy the fact that it goes back to old topics and questions and really drills the stuff into my head......it is also neat that I realized that it gives me review questions even when I go back to the first section and review some of the older stuff.
Absolutely huge right there! Yeah, the High Road is really awesome like that. It doesn't just prepare you for one test -- it prepares you for the career! I definitely wouldn't have passed as easily without it. Use it, prepare with it, pay attention in your classes, and you'll be ahead of the curve man!
Josh; you'll need combination and air brakes anyway.
I did the HRTP and passed Gen Knowledge, combo & air brakes before starting school. I told the guys in the class about it. 4 guys and the two who needed all three of those failed. I asked and guess what; they never even looked at TT. Of the two that passed, one used HRTP & the other one only needed combo.
Each day when I got done with school, I went to the internet and reviewed the HRTP again. Now I have double/trip, tanker & HAZMAT.
Your local school training might focus a little more on specific items those people know are going to be on your state's test, but I'm an example of what can be done through HRTP.
Now let's get drivin'!
HAZMAT:
Hazardous Materials
Explosive, flammable, poisonous or otherwise potentially dangerous cargo. Large amounts of especially hazardous cargo are required to be placarded under HAZMAT regulations
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.New Reply:
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What categories would be the best to focus most of my attention on if I want to pass my CLD permit test? the closer I get to heading out to class the more overwhelmed and nervous that I wont have all these categories understood! I'm assuming that combination vehicles and Air breaks will be one of the top categories along with rules and regulations.
Combination Vehicle:
A vehicle with two separate parts - the power unit (tractor) and the trailer. Tractor-trailers are considered combination vehicles.