Husband has Driving/ Pre-test/ Air brakes test in 3 days...Help - can you identify....

I don't know. When I took my school bus test, I followed the school bus Pretrip because it had only a couple added things, but then the school bus endorsement material was all in a single cdl manual.

Like I said this isn't rocket science, it is easy and doesn't require a lot of work. The one thing that messes with people is the stress of the test, which isn't much because 99.99999 of this is common sense stuff.

Hasn't this been going on for a few months now?

I thought he would have already gotten his cdl and been on his way.

 

1: Schools might charge less vs. Class A. Someone has a Class B job lined up, and just needs to get the CDL, they're not in a position where they realize this. Hindsight is always 20/20 - foresight is not.
2: A lot of people with B licenses get it through on-the-job training, and they'll provide just the minimum required for the job. This reduces costs they see as excessive, and also makes it more difficult for them to do the "wham, bam, thank you ma'am" and run off to a different job. I work for Public Works here in the City and County of Denver, and they run a CDL course in-house out at the airport (Denver International Airport, although being 25 miles from downtown, is incorporated as part of C&C of Denver)... you'll live this - five day course, all trucks with Allisons. Just enough to get a Class A, nothing more. Well, I can tell you first that no FNG going through that course is going to get put into a T/T with Public Works, but they're also not going to get hired to drive one for anyone else, either.
3: Some workplaces have Class A and Class B trucks, and the B positions may be more desirable. When I drove for Pioneer Sand, I was on the tandem side. When our RGN driver was fired, I filled in for him. I ultimately turned that job down, as they only wanted to offer me $1.50/hour more to run an RGN up to 10 axles than what I made running a tandem dump or flat & fork, plus the Class A positions didn't pay overtime, whereas the tandem side did, and I got a lot more overtime on the tandem side. Plus the transfer side was supervised by a woman named Ilene, and she was a real power tripping piece of ####, who looked for any excuse to try flexing her authority and making you feel like you were under her heel. If I had been intent on making a career with that company (which wasn't going to happen), I'd probably have considered downgrading to a B to ensure I never ended up on the transfer side.

60 is hold off pressure, 115 - 130 is cut out pressure, with a cut in pressure of no less than 25 psi below cut out.

Oh, and to the OP - as many others have said before, chill. At my shop, everyone is required to have a Class A within one year of hire, and those who don't have one coming in go through the crash course CDL program out at the airport. I tell the ones who get the jitters about it the same thing I'm gonna tell you - if you need reassurance, go to the nearest truck stop... actual travel center, not these little bum ### gas stations with some truck parking. Go to their restaurant, take a look at those around you. When you look at some of those around you, you will ask yourself, "wait... they got a CDL.. AND a job driving a tractor-trailer 100,000+ miles a year?!". Getting a CDL... ain't nothing to it. Our mechanics, EOs, etc. who didn't have one previously get a Class A in a five day crash course. The real test isn't so much for getting the license - it's on the road. These guys who get the crash course CDL at the airport might have the license, but I guarantee you I could stick them in a truck at the top of Vale Pass and they wouldn't know what the #### to do.

 

Congratulations. Life is usually a lot easier if we don't worry about it so much. Fear of failure is worst the plain old failure. We fail, we get up. we try again. But with the Fear of failure, we lose sleep.

 

Congratulations!! Was hoping you would post his results of the test.
Back when I did mine I was doing great until the Trooper got in the truck...as soon as I depressed the clutch my left leg started shaking really, really bad!!

LOL!! "he says it wasn't no Picnic and it sounded hours long" He's BS'ing you and just looking for extra attention later

 

Your husband is a lucky man!

 

Dittos!!!

 

PA Manual
http://www.dot.state.pa.us/Public/D...rivers Manual/Comm Manual English/PUB 223.pdf

Tell him not to take his test if he knows he's not ready. I doubt work will pay the restest. Not to knock Class B drivers but aside from the pre-trip, it's just a straight vehicle. If he can parallel park a car or pickup, he can parallel that. It's the exact same thing.