Colorado punches a hole in your 4-wheeler drivers license, and hands you a paper temporary for your CDL permit... good for 90 days. You have to carry both. If you go beyond 90 days getting your CDL, you have to get another paper temporary. Once you pass the practical driving test... given by a state certified driving examiner, usually one of the guys teaching you to drive... you take the form he signs testifying that you passed the driving test back to motor vehicles, and they give you a paper temporary CDL. Good for 90 days. If ya ain't got the permanent one in 90 days, guess what? Yeah... you gotta go get another one! Ya can't make this gubbermint stuff up. It's just too unbelievable to not be true! ...and it will take them about a week beyond that 90 days to get a new license to ya!!
You walk out with a paper one in WA too, but you get your real one in about a week. I think the paper one is good for 90 days here as well. The permit is good for 6 months with one renewal. Ok, thread-jack over.
It's all good. That's what these threads are for. I probably should have said my case was for Virginia. New enough to all this, I could't have answered. But, someone knowledgeable usually likely to chime in like this. Rolling through Indianapolis right about now.....
How many miles a day are you going so far? Do you run in a "super team"(think that's the term) where one drives 10, then the other picks up a few more before shutting the truck down for the night. Ive got plenty of little government issued license and IDs. Hell, maybe a suspicious amount.
This is only the case in VA for the CDL permit. When you get the actual CDL you will only have one card to carry with you.
A note to keep in mind: do not surrender your license when you get your permit. When you get your full CDL, you must surrender it, because it is illegal to have two licenses.
300-400, letting me drive it. More we switch. We roll locked on 55mph for mpg, so 6-8hrs. They usually gradually work you up from couple hrs. at first, but was already used to extended driving. Longer soon to come.
Yeah, I'm used to driving long stretches with no problem. It's the in town driving that concerns me more than highway. That's where I'll need instruction and practice.
THAT'S exactly where you learn the most. Up & down the gears repetitively, manuvering intersections, watching that trailer, etc. It kinda sucks first few days, but you rapidly start to get it. Nerves make it worse than it is.Soon as you start to relax & think, rather than panick, it comes along quickly. Ain't nothin' to rolling on Highway! Just switched after 7hr stretch. Almost to Columbus to drop, then P/U load to MI.
