CDL question

I have passed allmy exams, including schoolbus, and hazemats, now how do i get a truck to practice backing up , etc, for my skills test.

 

You need to find someone with a CDL, who can rent it for you, and be in the truck with you..You really should take a course from a certified school. Most companies require this before you can get hired..

 

If you can find a trucking school that does outside CDL testing a lot of times they will let you use their truck for a fee. The school I'm at here in MO charges around $200.

I would definitely recommend taking a CDL course. It'll help with the skills tests as well as everything else involved.

Good luck.

 

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I see a boatload of disappointment headed your way, if you don't have your own truck, or know someone willing to put you in one.

The Big 10 all require a certificate from a school, as do many others.

It's not impossible to find work. But pulling your own teeth without novacaine would be easier.

 

I did my CDL without school (but I had family connections) and like the man said I'm driving local oil field because the big 10 wont touch my ###. But none the less I'm driving and making money. Anyway my advice to you is pound the pavement and find some connections with trucks (quickly) Hell offer to wash and grease their truck for free if they let you back it up a bit. If your lucky and stumble onto some ol timers (like my family) they'll even show you things that will help you out. It can be done friend GOOD LUCK

 

SS Goose,

That is one of the craziest things I've ever heard. Is there really a knuckle head out there that would let someone grease up their truck, wash it, and then go play bumper trucks in a truck stop with it.

Truthfully, if a guy has the time to be out washing and greasing trucks in exchange for 15 minute backing lessons, he definitely has time to enroll in a proper CDL School.

 

yeah, the "big 10" might not be interested in those of us who haven't gone to CDL school... but then again I wouldn't work for any of them anyway so I guess the feeling is mutual.

Most smaller companies only care if you can actually drive, not how much you paid for your CDL. I've known a few that actually avoided guys who had gone the school route.

 

I work with a guy who drove a mixer for 3 yrs, never a TT, he came to our side of the company with no experience and is doing well..

 

If I could do it at 13 surely a grown man could figure it out.
I was legally driving 5 tons on a Texas Hardship/Agriculture License when I was 15,dont knock on a door you dont want opened.

 

It takes more than just "backing up" to pass a CDL skills test. You have the permit... you'd need that anyway to enroll and take a CDL course at any school. Despite what's said here about CDL schools, they provide a good foundation for a career - their purpose isn't to provide a "finished" driver, but to get you to the point where you can handle a truck well enough to get down the road without bending it or someone else. Go find a good school and enroll.