Posted by NCWayne on May 01, 2013 at 08:43:43 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: CDL requirements posted by the Unforgiven on May 01, 2013 at 08:04:31:
I had thought seriously about getting mine a few years back and looked into it extensively, and I know quite a few guys that have theirs for either a tractor trailer or a pickup and heavy trailer combo. That being said I have talked to many others that have taken the test, and know what I was told about the test, and if you get through the test like your describing, there is something wrong. In ever case I know of you, at a minimum, have to do a walk-around of the vehicle and do a pre-trip inspection. yes, you can use a guide to do so, but you still have to know what your looking for, and at, for the inspection to be of any use.
If you haven't done that then you shouldn't be given a CDL. That's not to say it's something you can't do, but if you can't, and your given a CDL, there will come a time when you will wish you knew what to do. I say this because, depending on the vehicle, a daily/pre-trip check is required on certain vehicles before going into service. You may be like me and go for nearly 10 years without ever being stopped but that one day will get you. In my case I got stopped the other week on the way home from a job, on a Saturday afternoon. My truck is under CDL, but tagged at 38,000 so I can pull a trailer if I want. As such it's over the 10,000 commercial weight and is subject to basically the same guidelines as any other heavy truck. Thankfully I got stopped by a really nice NCHP officer who wanted to do a level 1 inspection. That required nothing on my part but having my paperwork right, but it did include a full safety inspection on the truck. Had any one of the items checked (ie-brakes (stroke on the chambers within specs as my truck does have air brakes), lights, wipers, signals, proper safety gear (ie fire extinguisher, warning triangles, etc) been inoprative or missing I would have been stuck on the side of the road "our of service" until the problem was corrected.
What I'm getting at is if you went through the test without showing your knowledge of what is required for the safety inspection, etc you were done a great disservice by the testing agency, as you will surely need it at some point in time. Again, not to say you can't do it, but it is their responsibility to know you can do everything BEFORE issuing a CDL that, everywhere else I know of, indicates that you posses the required knowledge before you recieve it. So, hope you passed, and hope you know all of this stuff, if not it could come back to bite you.
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