Starting swift in a weird way..

So a little backround to my story...

I currently work for costco and I am getting bored of my job. So my friend told me to apply for a bus driving job and said i'd get paid 22/hr so I said hell yeah! I applied for king county metro here in the seattle area and got accepted for the job. They were going to train me to obtain my CDL as well since I didn't have one at the time. My pre-hire requirements was that I get my CDL Permit (Intrastate) and get a air brake endorsement as long as a passenger endorsement. I go in for my final review before them hiring me and I got denied because I had a license suspension for an unpaid ticket.

A few days pass and now i'm wondering what to do with my CDL permit since I already have it. So I start looking into trucking schools around me. I have no money to pay for it out of pocket but only one that I found accepted finacial aid but the program was 6 months long. Then I start seeing some schools that have a 3-4 week program but they require full tution up front so that was a no go. Then I saw that there were some companies that have their own training programs for getting a CDL and I don't have to pay upfront. First company I came across was C.R. England, after doing some research on the company I decided that I wasn't going to even bother with them. Then I come across swift which seemed more neutral in the reviews so I decided to go with them.

The weird part, now i'm going to the school in lewiston, ID on the 18th. I go get my DOT Physical and its all good. Then after that I go to the DOL to change my permit from Intrastate to Interstate and add a combinations endorsement. I get home and the top of my paper copy of my license says COMMERCIAL DRIVERS LICENSE. So i'm thinking this isn't right. I go online and check what my license says. And it goes as follows:
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[TR="class: even"]
[TD="align: right"]
[/TD]
[TD="class: lhs, align: left"]Driver license
[/TD]
[TD="class: DriverCols"]Yes
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="class: lhs, align: left"]Instruction permit
[/TD]
[TD="class: DriverCols"]No
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="class: lhs, align: left"]Motorcycle endorsement
[/TD]
[TD="class: DriverCols"]No
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="class: lhs, align: left"]Trike/sidecar endorsement
[/TD]
[TD="class: DriverCols"]No
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="class: lhs, align: left"]Motorcycle and trike/sidecar endorsement
[/TD]
[TD="class: DriverCols"]No
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="class: lhs, align: left"]Motorcycle instruction permit
[/TD]
[TD="class: DriverCols"]No
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="class: lhs, align: left"]Agriculture permit
[/TD]
[TD="class: DriverCols"]No
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="class: lhs, align: left"]Ignition interlock license(IIL)
[/TD]
[TD="class: DriverCols"]No
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TD="align: right"]
[/TD]
[TD="class: lhs, align: left"]Commercial driver license(CDL) - Class A
(May drive any size of commercial vehicle, including commercial vehicles towing a trailer.)
[/TD]
[TD="class: DriverCols"]Yes
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="class: lhs, align: left"]CDL self-certification (Non-excepted interstate)

[/TD]
[TD="class: DriverCols"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: even"]
[TD="align: right"]
[/TD]
[TD="class: lhs, align: left"]Commercial driver license permit(CDIP)
[/TD]
[TD="class: DriverCols"]Yes
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: odd"]
[TD="align: right"][/TD]
[TD="class: lhs, align: left"]Identification (ID) card
[/TD]
[TD="class: DriverCols"]No
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

So..... Not quite sure what to do I think the guy at the DOL messed up big time. As I've never driven a commercial vehicle in my life lol.

 

*sigh* I guess i'll go do the right thing lol. I was just hoping not to because now I have to wait another week to start my training. I just don't get why a paper copy license wont suffice. It is what it is I guess.

The only thing I don't understand is that it also says that I have the permit. I was told that the permit covers all classes of CDL I was wanting to make sure that i'm not reading this wrong.

 

Yeah I'll get on that monday. Lazy me was hoping to just go to the academy and just pass the tests at swift and not go through the state test. But so all of you guys have peace of mind I would not go out on the road or apply for a job without the proper training. I was still planning on taking the classes for my CDL.

 

haha thanks man, i'm looking forword to it. Pretty excited to drive a full sized rig. The closest to something like this is pulling a 20ish foot trailer with my pickup truck and driving a 26 foot box truck

 

Actually I just got to Lewiston today. Apparently the school said its happened a couple of times to their washington students and not to worry about it. I'm pretty excited to get started tomorrow.