24 hour driver training

Go through a decent course. These places are making the roads deadly. You need seat time with an instructor.

 

Why u asking us? If u need to ask that you probably need more time.

 

most companies insurance requires 160 hours

 

Nillz.

If you can drive a truck now..........take the 24hour course and go get licensed.

Driving schools are a joke. Pretty much all your learning will come from actual driving.

As for insurance requirements. Go work for a driver service and they'll find you a job until you have enough experience to aquire something better.

There are so many drivers going to proper "schools" and cannot find a decent job so don't waste your time or money thinking you need it.

A license is a license.

 

a licence is not a licence, IMO... That's what sets drivers apart from professional drivers. Driving on a farm and hitting the roadways are two extremely different things.

 

A license is a license.
Law enforcement doesn't categorise or deferentiate.
If you have a license to drive commercially that is all they look at when it comes to enforcement.

Freight brokers/forwarders don't care either.......as long as the freight gets moved.

Companies don't care either......they have recognised that a license is a license and is why they are looking for drivers overseas.

ONLY drivers believe their license is something special.
There is no "trade" seal for driving in Canada and the United states lists "driving" as an unskilled trade.

In fact drivers hurt themselves when they use the word "professional". Professional indicates a level of competance and trainibg which this industry neither provides or endorses. If you want the situation to improve stop calling yourselves professionals and giving the public a false sense of security and further, giving companies the ability to call their drivers professionals when in fact they'll hire pretty much anyone who walks through the door.

I tell everyone who asks me questions about driving I tell them trucking is a "free for all". It takes nothing to get a license to operate a tractor trailer. It takes more training to learn how to be a hairstylist that it does to run 80, 000+ down the highway at 100k/hr.

 

Am I the only one that hears the voice of Dr. Nick from the Simpsons in their head when reading this thread?

 

It's true that it's not a red seal trade... However Ontario is the first to recognize it as a skilled trade. Other provinces will follow.and companies will hire anyone with a pulse. However I still consider myself a professional driver. One accident in 15 years pulling doubles and triples, there are tons of other drivers with hundreds of thousands of miles accident free.

to the op: if you feel your skills will make you a safe driver on the road, go for it. I wish you all the best.