Doubles/Triples Endorsement

Now I feel guilty about the shoes I'm taking off some poor kid's feet because his daddy only pulls one trailer.

 

That's one of the reasons for trucking de-regulation; the drivers and unions had a chokehold on the American economy. A little common sense may have caused a different outcome. I remember very clearly drivers actually murdering other drivers for invading their so-called turf. That's no exaggeration either. Union drivers would follow a non-union truck, then pass the truck and shoot the driver or throw huge rocks and things such as commodes off overpasses down on to non-union trucks.
Pulling doubles doesn't deprive another driver of a job either; the same freight weight is distributed into two trailers instead of one. Some driver at the other end now has a job distributing the freight to the customers thats unloaded off the set of doubles.

 

I dont know much about double 48s or triple 28s, but double 28s dont take anybodys job from them. You cant pull anymore weight with them than you can a 53' trailer.

 

I see you're from VA. Since I'm from VA as well, this is actually relevant. You can take endorsement tests once per day at a cost of whopping $2 to you.

So use the dmv as the paid resource. Go take it again tomorrow. And then again day after. Why would someone spend $$$ on websites that don't have complete lists of questions is beyond me. I've a VA class A with tanker and doubles and triples that I got two months ago. Didn't find a dmv that had a book yet. In English anyway. Also did not pay anyone a dime. Just do the free tests online and go to the dmv to take the tests. If you fail, oh well, $2...

 

Double 28s can haul more product then a 53 ft. Not more weight just more cubic space. One other thing. When vi your set or train you need to check you have air all the way to the last trailer by opening the rear trailer value. If she blows your good to go. I think a driver did a tutorial on sets awhile back on the form. Very good read.

 

I didn’t see anywhere where anyone recommended paying for practice tests. The cristcdl.com one he said he used is free and the one I linked to is also free.

I cannot personal attest to how good the practice test are on the link I gave but I have seen several others recommend them saying they were the same questions they had on their CDL exams and they do allow you select the state you are in so they are supposedly state specific.

 

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ree-online-practice-test.238727/#post-3793443

TheTruckersReport also has free online tests

 

Now that's just crazy talk!
In my previous job at Viking Freight (sadly, now they'be been "purple power" since 2000), that's how it was done; I remember starting there on the dock because only had a year's worth of driving in (and even that was somewhat sketchy), and we would build "pure" SAC trailers, "pure" BSE trailers, "pure" DEN trailers. Obviously, that would mean staging freight on the dock prior to loading at times in order to be able to build the most cost effective loads. Space left in a trailer was lost revenue, after all...
Fast forward to today. FXF follows what they believe to be a better practice; freight is not to be staged on the dock (although it still is), get those trailers moving! So in most cases, a pallet from Seattle to San Diego may have only been handled twice in the past could now be handled up to four to six times, depending how it gets routed for "speed". Well, after being handled by a young part-timer instead of the old professional full-timers up to three times as much, you can imagine what that pallet can potentially look like...

 

As far as I can tell, the link I post below has every question of every endorsement. I used it to renew my HazMat. Crist has MOST of the tests. and when I last looked Truckers Report had almost as many as Crist.
http://www.truckercountry.com/cdl-practice-tests/