If you plan to stop driving for awhile do not make the same mistake I did!

Yeah it is a super big headache and lesson learned. But wow does it sting; I just got laid off from my work from home job. And thought "Hey I am ready to hit the road again anyway" and then learned this. And now panicking on what to do next. Waiting to hear back from my unemployment claim first. Then either working while going to trucking school, or ship off. But I would rather work while I go to school. Going a month without pay is going to kill me with bills.

And also, I tried seeing if I could just retest with a schools truck and instructor and they will not. I honestly don't think I could pass the pretrip inspection test at the moment anyway. But I could of just studied for that. I know how to do a pretrip, but I forget the name of all the parts. Was my biggest worry when I first got my CDL. memorizing all the lines.

 

They take your entire CDL? Yeah I could see if they wanted you to test for specifically hazmat endorsement if you haven't been driving. But taking peoples CDL's just seems insane to me. You could go and drive drunk and keep your CDL, just suspended. They claim their is a driver shortage. But then making people that want to drive again jump through hoops. Maybe I could see if you haven't driven in 10 years at all. But yeah, just seems insane to me. I didn't forget how to drive in a year.