Learning to drive in the winter?

Getting a CDL is easy. Keeping it is hard work.

 

that way you can get used to this at an early age.

 

It's all relative..
I'd agree it would be a better choice to learn slick and cold conditions from a experienced driver.
Winter is always just a cold front away anyhow.

 

Or a butane torch.
De-ice spray only does so much. The torch will heat the entire lock.

It can also help free up frozen brakes.

 

Actually the best time but will be a trail by fire so to speak. You will have your trainer to help and you’ll be better for it. I trained in the summer so all I saw was rain and wind when winter hit I was solo on 81 in Hagerstown ing bricks lol. If your ready go for it!

 

And when to drive outside of your comfort zone. You won’t get better if you always stay the same. Driving outside of your comfort zone is not the same as driving outside of abilities.

 

I started in the winter and the first load they gave me was to Rome New York. Drove in the winter of the northeast for three months straight before getting a load down south.

No reason to put it off. If anything you will have more opportunities available to you this time of the year.

 

well, now that you mention it, the 2 schools i did work at??

we did not allow students on the roads during snow storms, or even a "few snow flakes", or the threat of snow that day.

as a result, many would call the school on a "snowy day" and ask if they'd be going on the road. when told NO, all trucks for the road will be parked, the students stayed home.

main reasons being, they were not experienced to begin with, and the 4 wheeler drivers here (like any place else?) slip and slide and crash. no need for a school to get into that BS, just for road times.