Wannabe looking for advice.

I graduated from Dootson in Arcadia about a week ago. Good school, one-on-one instructors, I liked it. I have been hired by Schneider and start orientation on Sept 11th. Any questions feel free to ask.

You can get the CDL manual from the CA DMV website and start studying that to get your CDL permit, which is just taking a written test at the DMV and getting a DOT physical. This is a good first step.

 

There is no set time table at Dootson, you go when you want to.

I took 28 lessons, which are 30 minutes long. I finished the whole thing in 2 weeks. From getting my permit to taking my tests at the DMV. 14 hours of total lessons, which can be done at your speed, the instructor tells you when you are ready to test at the DMV.

 

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  [*]#1 Most have physicals, take the DOT physical and if you pass that someone will accept that - many of them
  [*]#2 Only from Oklahoma Redneck Association
  [*]#3 Go to a company-sponsored site, you have definitely better instruction as they have a pool of working drivers to pull from.
  [*]#4 Rules, Regulations, Laws, Cases & Statutes, FMCSA, DOT, DMV, and preparation for dispatcher: SOB
  [*]#5 Your own work, whatever you can find .....
  

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and dozens of other agencies & rules ~ you will get Major Screw on DAC reports and I dont even know what they are but I have seen too much industrial to bother finding out, they are lye-sheets that need to go in the laundry,..... they are -> Zamora v. Elite Logistics and that kind of thing

 

Hey sadwar, how did you get hired at Schneider?
Their hiring rules must be different now.
Just got off the phone with recruiter Kimberly Hardy, who told me I need a min. of 160 hours of training to be considered for hire!
I don't get it, any ideas?

 

That post is pretty old.
You can do real well with System Transport. Contact them about accepting your CDL school. You can also check the website trans-system.