Advice For Any Soon To Be Students Or Current Students....USE YOUR TIME WISELY.
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Excellent advice. Those that take it will likely walk away from school with a CDL and a job, those that don't will begin bitter frustrated Internet forum threads all about how unfair the school is. I say folks are often the architects of their own misery.
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.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
Thanks for the tip!
Also remember, your pre trip will help you for the rest of your career and the 4 point brake check is required knowledge as long as you drive. If you get pulled for inspection, DOT can make you do the 4 point while they test for air leaks. If you fail to do it properly, they can take you out of service. I'm not saying that they will because it's at the officers discretion but if you're a knucklehead who is racking up the violations, it certainly isn't going to help the overall outcome.
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.
Sounds like you will do just fine getting your cdl. I got to say though that Illinois is a pain with their pretrip. In Texas the only pretrip test we had to do was on the multiple choice scantron we took for getting our permits.
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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Hey fellas, so i am a current student at a school in the Chicagoland area with a class of ten students with 5 school owned trucks. So the ratio is absolutely in the favor of the students. My class is in the 2 week we have a separate class in there 4th week. I cant tell you how many students sit around and just bull**** all day. The instructors are there to teach not hold your hand. Example is we have a student in their 4th week set to take his CDL test this Thursday but when the instructors made sure he was good on his Pre-trip he had NO CLUE. So they had him in the yard for the full 8 hours today in 90 degree heat. Now he has to get the Pre-trip down by Thursday morning. And this is for Illinois and they are not very nice. A man failed his Pre-trip for not closing his door all the way. The instructor asked how to check the mirrors and door, he said check for damage and close the door. Instructor asked him if the door was good he said yes instructor said there is a space between the door and failed. Anyways getting off topic here study and use every minute they give you, not in the truck practicing straight backing or skills? Find a truck thats not being used and do you Air brakes test. All trucks being used? Eyeball one and go over the pre-trip with somebody taking out loud. Will not matter how good your double clutching is if you do not know how your air brakes work.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
Double Clutch:
To engage and then disengage the clutch twice for every gear change.
When double clutching you will push in the clutch, take the gearshift out of gear, release the clutch, press the clutch in again, shift the gearshift into the next gear, then release the clutch.
This is done on standard transmissions which do not have synchronizers in them, like those found in almost all Class A trucks.
Double Clutching:
To engage and then disengage the clutch twice for every gear change.
When double clutching you will push in the clutch, take the gearshift out of gear, release the clutch, press the clutch in again, shift the gearshift into the next gear, then release the clutch.
This is done on standard transmissions which do not have synchronizers in them, like those found in almost all Class A trucks.