Newbie In Reno Nevada. Help!

don't waste time and your dough on a B. get the A license. I had to go back and spend another 700. on the A a year later. just came from lovely reno yesterday from s. cal. for their traffic court....that's another story.
after you get driving, watch out for the nevada highway patrol on 80/ donner pass. they have a real sweet truck cherry patch there near the scales. they drive black suveees with lites that look like ski racks. you know.....also, if you ever get pulled over and cited, find out if its an infraction or a misdemeanor. one is 1 point, the other is SEVEN POINTS. that's one third of all the points they give you. you will not be employable if it's a misdemeanor. youlle be stuck where you are for 3 years. my boss neglected to pay the fine and my citation went from an failure to appear tothe brink of a bench warrant. I luckily got it taken care of in time.
don't leave your ticket up to your boss without weekly monitoring. "didgya pay that infraction fine yet, boss?" if It's a misdemeanor, you gotta appear in court to get it expunged off your record. your boss will just mail a check and youlle get lumped on your record. sick.

 

The highway patrol working the scales is the California Highway Patrol, those scales are 30 miles from the Nevada border. The NHP lines up and snags you as you enter the state and turn that curve after Verdi all the way past Boomtown, and they really have been covering 80 around Fernley lately, half dozen or so lined up with no shortage of victims.

 

That's good advice. All drivers should check their driving records about twice a year to make sure there is nothing outstanding, such as an unpaid ticket that will only fester until you're sitting at a scale dead in the water or even in handcuffs. He should do this at scale houses if possible.

I once had my Class A suspended in Colorado because of a clerical error, and no one bothered to tell me about it. No phone calls to my company. No letters to my home. Nothing. I had to find the hard way at the Inkom pigstye near Pocatello, Idaho. Fine was 400 bucks and I had no license for four days. I couldn't even drive my car during that time, which really pissed me off. I had gotten an MVR through a DMV about six weeks before from my home state, and the suspension wasn't on it, although the suspension took effect about 8 months before. It was easily cleared up, but if I would have known about it ahead of time, I wouldn't have been down for four days making special trips to the courthouse in Pokie.

 

what burns my tailpipe is that the judge says that they owe you nothing in the way of notification--the warrant courtesy notice is just that- a non- mandatory courtesy. they figure that you signed and know the dates from the ticket. they dont build in any kind of redundancy at all.

 

Wow. 9-10/hr flippin' burger's. Hell you'd be lucky if you could hit $7.50 an hour doing that here. I don't mean to bring you down saying this and I'm not trying to but getting a job driving a truck right out of school. You may as well roll down the window and wave. Very and I mean VERY few people luck out to find something like this. Most you have to spend at least a year or better over the road before anyone will even consider looking at you. You might have some good luck but if you get your CDL and go straight for a local company right out of school, then don't be surprised if they look at you all kinda funny. Good luck!