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After being out 4-6 weeks with a trainer, coming bank and passing the skills test, would I then return to my home state to get my cdl? If so, how does that work. If not, will it be CRE style, put your head in the cut out take your picture print out and off you go? How does that work?

When you stay out 4-6 weeks can you take 4-6 days off without having to turn in your truck? Or will they pull a Swift one on you and give your truck to a newbie while you wait for another one?

Or, is it more like catch a load by the house for a reset every once and a while and keep on gettin it?

 

At the end of the instructional phase, you test with a MDOT inspector, and they issue you a paper temporary CDL. When you go out with your trainer, one of the first things they'll do is arrange a load through your home for you to get your permanent license.

Hometime works like this... you put in your request, giving your FM some advance warning - a range of days for you to be there works better than a hard date. He finds you a load that finishes near your home - you run the load, drop the trailer at an agreed location, and bobtail home with YOUR tractor. The reverse process is followed on the way out. We don't play musical tractors... its your machine until its called back in to be retired. You accrue one day per week out, 3 weeks between hometime requests minimum, and can use 4 days at a stretch. You also get a week of paid vacation every 125,000 dispatched miles that you can use any way you'd like. They try to get everyone home at the 4th of July who wants to be there, and at least one of the 3 winter holidays - Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. On the company side, my FM usually managed to get me home for 2 of the 3 - including one time they bobtailed me 250 miles to get there.

You can do that too! Good luck man.

 

Thanks Ironpony. I'm gonna give it a shot.

 

That was something I was wondering about... when I go (if I have to retest for the permit here), will they arrange for me to come back to Kansas then to get my full CDL? My tester said he didn't think I could get one from MO and then trade it back here.

Thanks again for all your good info and help

 

It's just a matter of transferring the license. You can move your residence from state A to state B, yes? Then you have to transfer your license... there's nothing different about this.

 

In ma. if you don't have 2 yrs. verifiable otr experience you need to do complete test out road an written

 

Some states might require that you take their CDL-A written tests. I'm in Michigan and whether this state accepts another state's CDL test depends on the other state. It might also depend on whether the CDL is a temporary or a permanent. Here, they will not transfer a temporary CDL--I have to have to "hard copy." I have no idea why. Michigan is a funny place in some ways. Check with your own DMV. In any case, you'll pay for the transfer.

 

I have been out of driving for 5 years plus and due to my moving in January 2012 back to east Texas I have decided to get back into trucking, have kept CDL , med card, hazmat etc...up to date but no recent drive time. No tickets wrecks or anything else in 20 years , I want to do flatbed Prime is one of top choices, comments or ideas any other companies that may hire a person in this situation.
Thanks to All for your advice and postings.

 

Except Hazmat can not be transferred

 

Michigan will also require a Chuffers license