Squirrel Tooth Alice
Member
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2017
- Messages
- 34
- Location
- Chardon, Ohio
- Tractor
- Massey Ferguson F-40, Kubota 7040, Kubota KX057-5
Well, yeah, depending on how long ago "previously" is. I passed all the written tests for Class A, B, Bus, HazMat, etc. and, therefore possessed a CDL. Piece of cake.A CDL wasn’t previously that big of a deal to get. Idk why people go through significant trouble and expense to avoid getting one. Even the current requirements of going to truck driving school isn’t that bad compared to basing your entire operation around not having one.
Then one day I received mail from the Ohio BMV stating that they had a new law, and I would have to take a driving test to retain my CDL unless I could produce log books proving that I had driven a rig X amount of miles. I had no experience and therefore no log books, so my CDL was revoked.
Fast forward to today, and I 1) would need to drop six grand for the training, and 2) the class schedule at the nearest to me CDL driving school has 10-hour classes, 4 days a week, for a month. With a full-time job, etc., I can't even come close to attending classes that way. That's plenty of incentive for me to look for alternate options within the law to move my machine, occasionally.