CDL Changes Proposed
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Cybergal, Apr 10, 2008.
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Watch them say we all have to go back and re-test to keep our licenses!
lol, would it surprise you? -
i wish rag heads would not have CDLS
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Try this on for size (link provided), if you like that idea. Let's see just how far they get with the bill.
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Ron - you have PDF (adobe acrobat reader) installed? the link came up fine for me.
As for the listed changes, I think the only one I might have a quibble with is the first one - knowledge AND skills before you get your permit? This is coming across more like the waiting period for guns than anything reasonable for a CDL.
The way I read it, I'd have to go to school (or some kind of training), and pass all the range tests before I can get a CLP, then I'd have to get my road training in. So.. if we keep with the PDTI guidelines, I'd have 30 days in which to cram my 20 hours of on-street driving. 30 days in which I can NOT drive without an *awake* co-driver.
Actually, now that I think on it a bit more, it seems that what they're doing is trying incorporate the on-street training with the "training" and "orientation" trucking companies require. I don't think I want to even consider the problems with that.
As for the english requirement (or, no translators), I fully agree with that provision, too. Each and every highway sign in the US is in English. Each and every DOT officer speaks English. 99% of all business in this country is conducted in English. To be .. bad, English is the lingua franca of the United States. If you can't communicate well enough to pass a driving test, you should NOT be driving a CMV.
(in fairness, any US drivers going to Mexico (for instance) should have passable command of Spanish) -
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