Haven't received my actual license yet. Wait on endorsements?

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  1. PrestoTrucker

    PrestoTrucker Bobtail Member

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    How does that work. unfortunately i didn't get my endorsements when getting my permit. my school told me it might slow it down because if i fail haz mat, doubles/triples, or tanker i couldn't get my permit until i passed all. So they said to play it safe and do only the basics.

    SO now i want my endorsments and was told i can't try to get them until i receive my Real Picture Drivers license in the mail and then go in to get endorsements. And then ill have to get yet another License i the mail. Does this sound right?

    I was hoping to just go down there now today and do the tests and have them just register in the system etc.

    Im in So. Cal. by the way.
     
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  3. Chinatown

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    School instructors gave you bad advice.
    If you had failed any endorsement tests, you still would have gotten the cdl permit, but without endorsements.
    The school is probably pushing some dry van outfit that doesn't require endorsements, so they're trapping the students into hiring on with a company the instructors want, not what's best for the students.
    Which company is the school pushing?
     
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  4. PrestoTrucker

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    Just got off the phone with phone and he told me i have to wait to get my license in the mail before i take the the endorsments test. annoying...
    I'm just wondering is that true

    DMV line is busy and no one can tell me
     
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  5. Chinatown

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    If the school told you that, then contact the DMV and ask. If that's true, you're in the only state that has that requirement.
     
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  6. PrestoTrucker

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    I had thought maybe they did this because they were pushing a company to work for but ALL that was BS because i had asked may times about these supposed company and apparently is was ALL TALK

    whatever
     
  7. Lonestar87

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    Not sure about CA, but just went through this in TX. What your instructor told you initially was true, but just not the whole truth. If on your initial CLP application, if you check boxes for endorsements, you must pass all tests in order to get permit. What they didn't tell you is that you can get your CLP, then get right back in line for endorsements testing, and even if you fail them, you will still have your CLP. Now if you don't get endorsements right away, and they schedule your testing date, you will have to wait until after you get your CDL or reschedule your test date. As soon as I got my CDL, I didn't even get back in line, just had lady at counter process my endorsement testing then and there with temporary paper CDL. Once I passed tests, they took my picture again and printed a new temporary CDL with tanker and doubles/triples endorsements, and gave me a card to setup fingerprinting/bg check for haz mat.
     
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  8. PrestoTrucker

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    just got off phone with DMV
    yes its true
    i have to wait for my photo CDL class A in the mail
    and then when possess the License
    then when i take the future endorsement tests and pass
    i have to surrender my new picture/photo license again and
    be issued another temporary paper one with the endorsements again
    and wait 3 weeks for the new endorsment CDL class A

    wish my school would have made this clear instead of telling me to just do the
    basics. I want ed to get my endorsements they said it would have messed things up and
    slowed things down.

    Unfortumantley most school have different agendas and motivations for sure.
     
  9. Chinatown

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    Which state are you in?
     
  10. PrestoTrucker

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    California
     
  11. Chinatown

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    OK, I thought you only had the permit; forgot you have a cdl-A.
     
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