On my way to CDL A without Trucking School

Ok, how many do i need?

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I never went to a school for my CDL, but I've also have been driving for many years know, In my opinion, you should talk with local companies in your area, see if one will give you the chance to get some experience, You will more than likely have to drive with another employee, and for a less wage, but as for OTR?, I would think even though you have a CDL, they would still make you go through there training, Best of luck

 

Everyone has at least one restriction, And thats P for physical, thats a DOT requirement

 

7 i believe

 

I'm working on it, lol

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A better title for your thread would be "On my way to a CDL A without a job". Its 2012. The number of companies that will hire you without accredited schooling can be counted on a double amputees hands.
Why wouldn't you take an accredited course with plenty of wheeltime? I went to a tech school(8 weeks and you had to have all the stuff you listed first anyway) and there is alot more to this job than being able to shift and countersteer. If you want to start your CAREER off right, get CAREER TRAINING. Not a shortcut to failure and disappointment. I wish you the best of fortune in your endeavors.
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I agree wit-u almost totally, OP should ignore the TOADS [ totally operational accredited damnation system ] .....

that oughta get in their sheet!...they will be stuck for hours trying to figure it out

OP: try "TMC Transportation" & there are others but do not expect to just plunk one as that is not going to happen + FFE has a zero-time running DOT regulated as well several others, had I not wished so bad to run vacuum trucks in Eagle Ford Shale I would have approached one of them already ~ and in fact just sent an email to an SNI recuriter

better have a good internet and months to look -> do you have your CDL already?.

 

it's usually 5 on most of these boards, I can go ask one of the admins & you can post on my thread (s) to bump your count a little, dont go hog-willy as it will trigger fences for Hormel Foods v Jim Henson Productions - a spam case / not a case of spam

 

I'd really like to know where the hell this attitude came from.

The only thing right in this post is that you need to know more than shifting and counter-steering. Problem is, it seems 95% of the driving programs out there only teach you that. They teach "driver's" enough to get through the road test. Simply put, there's way more to it than that, and, even what shifting they do teach you is a 9 or 10spd. transmission. By the time I had taken my drive test I had worked around 7LL, 9, 10, 13, 15, and 18-speed transmissions. I always get a laugh out of the steering wheel holders who don't understand how to shift a 13-speed, let alone something with a "non-standard" pattern like a 15-speed (and, the ironic thing is, the 15-speed is an incredibly forgiving transmission, I love driving them). I had learned how to secure many different types of loads. I had loaded excavators, dozers, backhoes, bobcats, roto-mills, and a host of other things. Not to mention time spent helping on the mechanical side of trucks. Ages spent backing up. Keep in mind that the vast majority of veteran driver's never set foot in a class-room, as G/Man said, they learned by doing. That's the way I learned, I never set foot in a classroom, and at 21 years old I've been overwidth, overheight, overlength, and heavy. When I stop seeing mega-fleet steering-wheel holders overheating pulling 6% at 80,000lbs. I may be more inclinced to believe in the trucking schools.

And, for the record, I didn't come from a trucking family. I wasn't raised around it, and I didn't find myself in a truck because dad owns a trucking company.