CDL school?

ATH said:
How long ago was that? (Edit: Never mimd, just say you said last year). Federal mandate starting in Feb of 2022 have more strigent requirements. I thought that mandate dictated hours, but it doesn't look like it does. Ohio requires Class A to have 80 hours of training (classroom and road).
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I thought it was a 40 hour minimum (theory and driving). Some of the theory stuff can get fudged as you can do it online self paced prior to driver training.
 
Analog said:
.... It's kinda crazy that anyone can just go buy any old truck and RV trailer combo and roll on down the road but if you look into it, the CDL requirement kicks in at some pretty low weights.
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Brando CalPankian said:
Straight up. As soon as you're making money with it the government needs their piece.
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Even a private noncommercial vehicle cannot go past CDL weights unless it's an RV, right? So if my neighbor has an F350 and wants to use my 14K dump trailer to get some soil for his yard, I think technically he needs CDL.

I've got no problem with keeping us safe by expecting drivers of heavy vehicles have different qualifications. I just think some of the requirements are not where they need to be and I don't think it should take $5000 and a week or two of labor to get there. Not like there were mass casualties caused by untrained drivers 4 years ago.
 
ATH said:
Even a private noncommercial vehicle cannot go past CDL weights unless it's an RV, right? So if my neighbor has an F350 and wants to use my 14K dump trailer to get some soil for his yard, I think technically he needs CDL.

I've got no problem with keeping us safe by expecting drivers of heavy vehicles have different qualifications. I just think some of the requirements are not where they need to be and I don't think it should take $5000 and a week or two of labor to get there. Not like there were mass casualties caused by untrained drivers 4 years ago.
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If it's non commercial you can do what you want. A class a CDL is 26000gvwr+ truck with 10001+ pound trailer. In my state you need a dot number for anything over 10k gvwr and for commerce. If it's private you can kinda do what you want.

I agree, it turned the CDL process into a racket with no measurable indicator that any danger has changed. It pushed a lot of would be private operators to big companies under contracts and to unions. It starves small companies of needed talent and has widened the otr trucking shortage.

5k is cheap for a lot of schools too. I've seen upwards of 10k through community colleges and longer programs. Insanity to me. As a business owner I wouldn't have 10 weeks to take classes full time to get my CDL for a job that is on the edge of needing it anyways. If anything it's pushing normal regulation abiding drivers to do sketchy shit due to the cost of it.

And the worst part is the folks that are a danger are going to do what they do regardless. Legislation doesn't fix that.
 
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