True or False

Are you talking about applying for jobs in Hawaii or the mainland? It is true that trucking companies on the mainland will want to know that you have training with 53' trailers, which is a defacto standard for interstate hauling. For those employers who will look at your credentials from schooling, in order to prove that you have had training to handle a 53' trailer, you will need some sort of an official training program which can provide certification to that affect.

No, you don't have to go back to school to do that. You can do that with some sort of refresher course. Such a course should provide you with enough driving time to make sure you feel comfortable maintaining road control while handling the longer trailer. If you are good and comfortable driving with 35 and 38 foot trailers, you will probably get used to the differences with tracking, and with the backing, of a 53 foot trailer in fairly short order, since the basic principles remain the same.

 

Do you have a current CDL A license?

 

I would say no CDL.

 

I tend to agree.

 

Yeah, I missed that little point. Now I'm confused as to what, exactly, the OP is asking.

 

So, you want to leave Hawaii and come to the mainland to drive a truck ?

Great. You'll fit right in at Werner.






OK OK .... it's my first swing at a competitor. Check my posts.

 

well i can tell you this.........i work as a truck driver instructor. in fact at my second school now. at neither school do we teach "containers". only dry vans, and those would be 28' pup trailers (as a single trailer, not doubles), and 45' and 48' vans as well..........NO 53' trailers EVER for a student.

the person you spoke to, knows you DO NOT have a CDL license right now........is this true......?? you DO NOT HAVE a CDL Class A right now....??

if so, the YES, you need to get that license...........

now, if you HAD a class A CDL, but only van driving experience, or flat bed, or drop deck, then the recruiter is blowing smoke up yer arse. you GET container training from a company that hires you.

that is of course, are you speaking of containers that come off ships........right.......?? no school teaches that, in which i am aware of, but again, i speak of MY AREA.........maybe further south of my like VA, MD, or on the west coast they do.

where is it written that pulling 53' trailers is a "defacto" on the interstates.......?? i have seen 45's, 48's, AND 53's, as well as 55's, and i do believe some 57's.......and i have heard of 59's as well......!!

there is NO "defacto standard sized trailer for the highways.

as i stated, (at least my schools) NO 53's are taught to students. mostly when they get hired at whatever company they go to, is when they get thrown into a 53'...........

http://www.stopbiggertrucks.org/multimedia/large_truck_dangers.pdf

 

Sure there is. A de facto standard is simply one in which something (in this case, a trailer length) has reached a dominant position. It has nothing to do with a LEGAL standard, merely what is most used or produced. Since 53' and 48' semi-trailers are the most common sizes in use today (notice I did not say the ONLY sizes in use), 53' trailers are, indeed, a de facto standard.