Time compression in cdl school?

The old saying in trucking is work 100, log 70, get paid for 60 hours. It's an exaggerated statement, but there is a lot of unpaid waiting.

 

Somebody involved in trucking lying, imagine that

 

Sure as heck not going to be seeing a 40hr week anymore.

Consider that the long gone past.....

 

More truth than fable, though.

 

I was a CDL instructor - 15 years ago, so what I am about say might be out dated.

At THAT time SOME states (not all, so check your states requirement - it MAY be a federal standard now) required 40 hours of actual behind the wheel and 120 hours of "classroom". The "classroom" wasnt very specific so what we did was go out 4 hours at a time with 4 students with each student driving 1 hour. We did this twice a day for 4 weeks (40 hours driving). The non-driving time spent in the truck was counted as classroom (6 hours a day x 5 days a week x 4 weeks = 120 hours).

We did actually do some classroom stuff for about 2 hours a day (we ran 10 hour days at the school) so that brought all their classroom stuff to 160 hours. All of this had to be documented and every so often we had to provide this data to the dept of public safety.

I would guess in your case you do your behind the wheel in school and your "classroom" is probably done on computers on line. That would be my guess.