oops, double post. Hey, I never said I was a super poster.

 

I passed my first try, I went to a state college instead of a CDL mill. If your CDL has lapsed you can always take a refresher class at te college and cost is less than $200 here anyway, or you can rent thier truck for really cheap and get a state examiner too run you through tthe coarse.

A CDL Mill just wants money where I felt the state college just wanted to try hard and make sure I passed, our class was small like 3 students and we had 2 trucks and we help each other with learning and stuff so each driver would test another on the pretrip, helped us all learn our mistakes, I enjoyed the class, total cost for everything from drug test to cdl permit , medical exam and all the books and the cost of CDL was less than $2500...

So I would not recommend a CDL Mill oor a company that gets you locked into a contract, at least with them you will get a CDL but must drive 2 years before your schooling is paid back... most companiies will pay you back the coost of schooling anyway, I had a great time at school and learned mostly how to pass the 3 tests rather than serious dooing boook work, wee drove and practiced the test everyday soo it helped alot at test time.

 

[/quote]I don't think I understand this statement. I understand the course you drove on was a city street. So how could the test be to hard?

[/quote] BTW: I had less than 2 hours behind the wheel when I took the test and had never driven the truck before.


With only 2 hrs. behind the wheel, how did you learn so fast how to change gears? This usually is one of the most difficult skills to learn.

The city streets I was tested on were inner city streets and the school never took us there as they said they didn't believe in teaching how to drive on the test route as that was not the real world.

 

I think it all has to do with what school you choose there are way to many schools in it for just the money and how many they can get tgrough the doors from what i have seen the community colleges are usually amoung the best and cheapest

 

I am not aware of any community colleges that offer courses in truck driving, in Canada anyway.

 

$60, passed thr written. Failed on the 1st try, passed the wqhole shuhbang the 2nd time. EZ Cheesy 8)

 

[quote="steverb1"]I have driven stick shift transmissions all my life. All I had to learn was double chutching. Plus, I drove farm trucks along with pulling trailers.

Now don't get me wrong I wasn't the best nor I'm I now but like most things driving has a alot of good old common sense.

Well your instructors are wrong. Every street is the real world. Don't believe me - Try driving for Cummins Tool. You will go into places you won't think it is possibly.

Truck driving is NOT picking up at a nice big lot with plenty of area to move around and then going down an inter-state highway. No it involves going into some undersized dock that is on a narrow street many times.

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