Lawsuit Seeks Stricter Rules for Truck Driver Training

Everything appears to be on a tight stricter path

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Typical politicians. The person quoted in the article is either a total liar, or sadly misinformed. It is possibly both.

 

Wow !!!!

I never knew there were such places with so short training.

I did a week in class , week in the parking lot backing and 2 days driveing before a month with a actual trainer.
I thought that was a short time. Jeezssss

 

yep, CLASS started at 6, ended at 6. and was 2 weeks long.

plus

6 weeks WITH A TRAINER.

wish i woulda known about this 10 hour class. cuz mine was a lot of the same thing over and over.

 

There is a 10 hour training requirement?


It figures the first thing the bureaucrats want to do is create more bureaucracy to regulate truck driver training.

The obvious way to accomplish what they want is to simply test on the material they want the students to know. The schools naturally teach what is needed to pass the test.

But it's not like tougher testing is going to help anyway. The examiners seem to all be sticklers on the pre-trip inspection, yet that is the first practice many drivers throw out the window.

 

Maybe they should teach the general public more about trucks instead.

Curious on how the article mentions the drivers test on a closed course; does that actually happen? My CDL test was on a public road and highway.

 

They do! The city of San Antonio Texas runs a constant ad campaign telling motorists to give trucks more room. The actively patrol the interstate and cite violators too.

And for my Class A test I was given a tractor and a trailer ( over there ) . I was to demonstrate a tractor pre trip, a proper hook up, a trailer pre trip and a road test. I was asked questions while driving. Once that was over I was instructed to return the unit to the condition and location I found it.

Took about an hour.......

My school was the local rock quarry with a fleet of B61 Macks, a couple of Reo's and a few corn binders. All had small Cummins, compression releases and 2 sticks. Some had pop out windshields......and all had a wig wag.

Yes sir, I was definitely s******g in high cotton.

 

The thing is, some have a natural talent to pick up truck driving, some don't. With some, 10 hours, 100 hours, 1,000 hours, classroom and/or truck ... makes no difference, they'll always have poor and unsafe skills, regardless. The point is it's not about the training/class time, it's about the individual and the quality of the training.

Also, some state trooper has "certified" each and every one of these new truck drivers by way of a written/driving exam. where do they fit into this? I can tell inside the first 3 minutes of observing someone behind the wheel if a driver has the skills or not. I understand it's hard to say "nope" but you want to be a state trooper, you have to put on the big-boy pants and say no when it needs to be said.