2.5 weeks or pretrip only in cdl school

2.5 weeks of only pre trip? Yeah that's too much. 1 week should be sufficient but i'm not the school director.

 

That depends upon how hands on it is and what all is covered along with how much time you are there a day but I would would have said 2 weeks probably driving is the easy part for me it was knowing what all you touch and talk about in a pretrip to be safe and a cdl test goes way beyond what you do in real life but they have to teach you every part of the truck and trailer

 

Your school sucks.

I went to the Knight Transportation CDL training program 4 years ago.

We got to the yard pre-dawn.

Pre-trip prep was in the morning before the sun came up, then it was driving/skills practice during daylight hours, with more pre-trip prep while waiting for our turn to drive.

We started on skills/driving the 2nd day.

These people are wasting your time.

 

That’s crazy. You need time behind the wheel, learning to maneuver a trailer and learning how to operate a 10-speed.

We all did pretrip inspections every morning before operating the trucks, and practiced that more whenever the trucks weren’t moving (like during the lunch break).

 

i have 832 weeks of pretrip and still building

 

found to day with 43k in box on a pretrip. so the better you are on pretrips the better you will be

 

That's easy mode. I should've snapped a photo of the one I had with half the suspension FUBARed last month; shipper was genuinely confused when I requested they transload it else I reject the load retroactively. Apparently they thought it looked fine with half the leaf springs out of place, 2 snapped u-bolts and a damaged torque arm

 

Orlando you want to tell us what school this is? Gripes and adventures are all nice... but education should be on everyone's list here and the quicker we can tell people about this sort of stuff the better. I personally want to know what people think is a good amount of time and what isn't and possibly why. Then there is just plain avoiding that school if its too much time....

 

That is not too much. Pre trip is where most guys suck! The more time you spend on it the, the more it will get drilled into your head, and the safer you will be.