I don’t want to waste my money at a school and the company training is a joke. The bus company offered to train me to get my CDL B and drive bus for them. So I figured I would do some time driving bus and then move up to the big leagues lol sort to say. So how hard is the transition from bus driver to tractor trailer driver?
Actually not that hard. Bus drivers require a passenger endorsement. Tractor trailer drivers do not.
Driving a straight truck (or bus) is a little different than driving a combination vehicle. If you wish to pursue that. Find some use for a personal trailer, (jet ski, boat, camper) and get used to backing it. It will make future backing of a 48 or 53 foot long trailer much easier.
For the below poster. Backing a smaller trailer is a lot more difficult than backing a long trailer. If you do not know that fact then I doubt your claim of being an O.T.R. driver is accurate. I have been driving them, Teaching others to drive them and fixing them since 1977. Stop laughing in your sleep.
June 28th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
you just need a class A CDL, get the class A, dont play around with a class B if you want to drive a truck
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June 28th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
the vehicles are not that much different in size weight or handling except for one bends in the middle and the other doesnt
the bigger thing is the frieght you haul and the traffic…
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June 28th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Actually not that hard. Bus drivers require a passenger endorsement. Tractor trailer drivers do not.
Driving a straight truck (or bus) is a little different than driving a combination vehicle. If you wish to pursue that. Find some use for a personal trailer, (jet ski, boat, camper) and get used to backing it. It will make future backing of a 48 or 53 foot long trailer much easier.
For the below poster. Backing a smaller trailer is a lot more difficult than backing a long trailer. If you do not know that fact then I doubt your claim of being an O.T.R. driver is accurate. I have been driving them, Teaching others to drive them and fixing them since 1977. Stop laughing in your sleep.
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June 28th, 2009 at 10:56 pm
lol practice with a boat trailer thats retarded they arnt that much alike 1 is about 18 ft ling the other is 48 to 53 feet long . listen the best thing i can tell you is dont mess around with the class b bull shit just rent a truck and study the book and get a class a plus driving a bus WILL NOT COUNT as experience for a class a vehic. the big difference between the 2 is 1 you are hauling steal food gas stuff like that the other you are hauling people , people that are trusting you with there lifes to get them from point A to B with no problems. in short just get the class A and forget about the bus driving
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