Truck School Uses "6 Speed Manual Transmission"

I owned a printing company once upon a time. A girl I had in my art department had a CDL because her family had horses. She tested in a pickup with a horse trailer...

 

While one can, and if that's all they need it's fine. This is a bad idea for general testing. Too many restrictions limit the CDL to really only pulling ag trailers.
To name some. : No air brakes, No 5th wheel, and possibility no manual transmission.

 

I should have prefaced this by saying it was 40 years ago lol.

And no, Im not saying she could have jumped in a cabover and tooled on down the road. Just saying, at least in them days, it didnt take much to get one.

 

When I moved to Oklahoma in '82, the tag agent accidently gave me a Commercial Chauffeurs license instead of a regular license. I never had to do a driving test in a truck.

 

That seems difficult to you? Never had a student take more than 20 mins to get proficient in it and most got it in 10-15.