Local Driving, New Driver A Few Questions (Looking for Job Florida)

Google your state and CDL study guide. EVERY question for EVERY endorsement is available online a TruckerCountry.com No matter what state you take the test the questions are the same, that was the whole point of creating the CDL.

 

I listed all the ones I can find.
You can try Trillium which is a staffing agency. Sometimes they have access to job opportunities the rest of us don't have. They are hired by trucking companies to find drivers.

 

I've never visited that site. I prfer TruckerCountry.com becuse I have used it and I notice it has EVERY question for EVERY endorsement. There are many sites with some practice tests. I prefer the site with all tests and all questions. I used to work at the nation's 2nd largest flight school. Here is how I suggest learning the skills and info needed for trucking. Look at everything you must learn as 1 of 3 categories.

1. You want to learn how to pass the computer test you will take at the DMV. This is not real life, this is a multiple-choice test where all of the questions and answers are knowable before you take the test. Practice until you routinely score 90% or better. There is a simple technique for passing ANY multpile choice test when the questions and answers are public knowledge. DO NOT study the real world info and expect to se that to pass the computer test. All you have to do is RECOGNIZE the right answer, not analyze the universe and create the right answer. You only have to RECOGNIZE the right answer when you see it.

2. You want to learn the skills and procedures to pass the pre-trip and road test. Do it the way the state wants it done, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU WILL DO IT THAT WAY IN REAL LIFE.

3. Spend the rest of your trucking career learning something new everyday to become a better, more professional driver.

Never confuse the computer test/info for real life or the other categories you need to learn. Tell the computer test the answers the computer expects. Tell the human giving you the road test what he wants to hear and see to pass his test. Never confuse the computer info or the road test info for how a professional driver does his job.

 

LTL mean Less Than Truckload. Practically it means driving terminal-to-terminal. Moving freight from a trucking company's terminal to another terminal for the same trucking company. Companies like Yellow/Roadway (YRC), Old Dominion, ABF, FedEx, UPS, and others have huge LTL networks and drivers doing LTL for them don't visit customer locations. They drive from one of their company's terminals to another terminal. It usually pays very well and at many companies is the hardest job to get. Many drivers get experience inside other parts of the company until they qualify to move into LTL. A few people are lucky enough to get hired into LTL. Generally LTL means you have a more regular schedule, maybe even exactly the same schedule and route with little or no time away from home. You could have a job where you drive 5 hours out to a terminal, drop and hook to another trailer and come right back to the terminal you started at, then go home.

 

Google "local truck driving jobs" and the name of your city. Look on Craigslist and Indeed for truck driving jobs and the name of your city.

 

FedEx has a training program to help people get a cdl.

 

It's tough to find a decent paying local gig in South Florida. Waste Management offered me a whopping 15 bucks an hour to pull a step deck locally.