possible cdl suspension

Your personal vehicle driving history is taken into consideration when applying for a CDL. Your personal vehicle driving history is under consideration when you apply for a job that requires a CDL. Your personal vehicle driving history is taken into consideration when you are charged with a violation on your CDL. And, when you are charged with a violation in your personal vehicle, your CDL history becomes a subject of investigation.

The collective driving history of this industry is constantly under scrutiny, and it does drive regulation. If everyone had a stellar personal/CDL record, then the regulations would not be necessary. Or, at least they would be fewer and less complicated.

So yes, what a driver does in a personal vehicle does affect the industry and how it is regulated.

Edited in the interest of grammar and brevity (several times).

 

But not regulatory. Dude I agree with you except for what one does in his/her personal vehicle does not affect us as a whole. That's on the individual driver. Where the regulations come in is when it's done in a CMV. Like the Tracy Morgan crash.

 

Funny.... I've run combinations weighing more empty than a five axle grosses at, and I've driven on "roads" the likes of which highway drivers stay far away from... and here I was, thinking that meant something as far as being a "real" truck driver went. Guess age makes the difference over applied skill. Thanks for setting me straight on that.

 

I don't even know where to start. Private license history was not combined w/ comm. for years. Neither was drug testing. There was no backround checks, employment history, blah, blah, blah. You walked in the boss either hired you or he didn't. Call me when you get unloaded. All these regs. had nothing to do w/ Joe trucker. It was the big wrecks and the gov. agenda to oversee the transportation industry as a whole. A couple of speeding truckers @ 0200hrs. didn't bring those regs. on the Industry.

 

So you've driven trucks I've never heard of and only places I've had nightmares about.

 

We've probably each driven trucks the other hasn't heard of.... keep in mind I do have employment outside the US in my resumé. As for whether you have nightmares about them, you tell me. I just keep seeing these rants about what's "real" and what isn't from people who've never left the paved road or run more than five axles, and I just get this idea in mind that something's gotta give here.

 

I hear ya. These are hiway freight haulers for the most part, not off road multi-axle OD. Super B trains, triples, twin steer and tridum drive trucks are usually driven after more miles and specific jobs. Decending grades over 30% off road is not for the typical trucker. Those kind of grades I never got comfortable with. For others maybe it's a piece of cake.