I heard a rumor.....

Cali must be having a hard time finding drivers to drive in there F'ed up state.

 

Also here in SC only a handful of DMV's test out Class A's now. All do B's though.

 

It is not impossible because now the school has two third party testers. Now there are a few schools so they weren't getting paid from our school specifically. But anyone can get tested out there.

 

Exaggerate much, do ya?

Okeydoke, tell that to the states that have "THIRD PARTY TESTER"s employed by the schools. I'm not gonna argue the semantics of it.

Of course, things ARE "different" here in Utah. Not to be confused with things being "better" though.

 

Lol I've heard about it... Haha

 

The instructors at the school I attended here in Alaska are state certified examiners as well. Come test day, the examiners rotate to different trucks than the ones they served in as instructors(students test in the same truck they learned to drive in), for reason of objectivity.

 

Depends on who the person is 3rd party to.

If the school is bringing in somebody else to do licensing, then you are right.

*But* it could also be looked at as the DMV being the primary party and the 3rd party is whoever is not employed by the DMV but is certified by that state to give CDL examinations. Which has nothing to do with being employed by a school or not.

School I went to here in PA was recognized as a third party testing center by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, thus, the state certified examiners working at that school could also be considered 3rd party. In this case, it just means somebody other then the DMV

 

Yeah at my school they had to go through a special class at main DMV to become a 3rd party.

 

I went to a 2 month 384 hr CDL program at a community college in NC. They are the oldest trucking school in the U.S. They opened in 1949. They do 3rd party testing. It was funny because on test day The instructors you joked with or talked to about things became different humans. They became very serious, followed the book. They didn't coach you or let something slide. If you failed, you failed. They were at that point, State testers. They were professional. I mentioned it to one of the instructors after I tested and he said the State will come by and watch them unbeknownst to them. They could get in a lot of hot water if they were unprofessional or 'easy' on the students.
I don't know if it took any pressure off... I was pretty #### nervous as it was. I failed the 90 alley the first time. I had to retest the next day. First you had to pass the pretrip, then the skills test (90 alley, offset backing and straight backing) , then the road test. If you failed any one segment, you did it again the next day and the next till you passed. There were several people who never made it to the road test cause they either couldn't pass the skills test of even qualify by the schools standards to start the testing.
When I read reports about some schools, I feel gratitude that I was able to attend such a good school that really taught you above and beyond the skills needed to pass.....
JCC should be the model other schools use, IMO....

 

i stumbled around and failed my pretrip first time
had to wait a week . I had to pretrip all 5 trucks every day until the following Sat