"Entry-level drivers must complete the applicable training, from a provider listed on the Training Provider Registry, prior to taking a relevant skills or knowledge test."

https://tpr.fmcsa.dot.gov/" rel="nofollow - Training Provider Registry (dot.gov)

https://tpr.fmcsa.dot.gov/Resource/Open/eldt-overview" rel="nofollow - Slide 1 (dot.gov)

If you know someone interested in getting a CDL, they should get their CLP prior to February 7, 2022.

When the country is so short of CDL drivers, it seems (to me) that it's a poor time to make obtaining a CDL harder than ever.

Every school district in our area is very short of school bus drivers. A few districts had to go to online only for short periods, because of driver shortages. Many bus drivers are retired people that have obtained their CDL (with passenger endorsement) to help out with the shortage and to supplement their income. I believe this new requirement will be a major deterrent for people like that.

Every school district has some kind of "in-house" driver training. This has seemed to work well.

I don't believe the movement is political. (Some people on here tend to think everything is political.) I think it is well intentioned, but I question the timing. Making it harder to get a CDL right now, in the middle of a shortage of CMV drivers, may not be a great decision.

Ok, i gott ask... just how do you get a CDL now ??

Just walk in, pay $50 ,and walk out  with one ??

Surely there's SOME kind of test ?? !!

hmm 2nd ?? Is this a federal thing ? If so, it means you can drive in any state to any other state ?? I'm thinking about how CA has it's own 'rules of the roads'....

Getting a CDL is now very similar to getting a regular drivers license; you get a DMV CDL manual, study it and take a written test to get a CDL learners permit.  When you have the learners permit, you must have a CDL driver with you at all times. 

You, then, schedule a CDL road test, which has to be taken in the class of vehicle you are applying for; tractor or truck trailer for Class A, straight truck over 26,000 lbs. for a Class B, bus for a P (passenger endorsement). The CDL you obtain may have restrictions, based the vehicle you took the road test on (automatic transmission, no air brakes, truck-trailer combination, limited number of passengers based on the size bus).

If you pass, you must have a CDL physical for interstate driving.

When this regulation goes into effect, you will have to have the mandatory training.

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CDL is a federal license that is issued by the state you reside in. CDL regulations are the same for every state, however some states impose more stringent restrictions. The same is true for commercial motor vehicles (CMV).

As I said before, you must have a valid CDL physical for interstate operation. Intrastate (not crossing state lines) physical is governed by the state you are operating in.

It’s the same issue as most other jobs. Not enough kids growing up near that stuff learning how to function.

I washed trucks as a kid. Was moving them around at a young age

I'm glad I don't havta' worry about that crap anymore. My CDL is still active yet, but when the time comes that it expires, (this coming new year) I'll be done wit' that! The thing here in New Joisey though, you havta' go to the DMV and have it removed (for a fee of coarse) and have your driver's license changed. If you let the CDL expire, so does your driver's license! I know a feller that let his CDL expire. and he found out later down the road that he didn't have a valid driver's license!  Yikes!....

Steve@B&B

 Fast forward 40 years or so, While driving for a company, I was always the trainer for new hires and couple stand out in my memory. 

  One was a fellow that wanted to be a big time Peterbuilt driver. He was a hotshot that would not listen and thought , as he'd been thru a school he knew it all. After one trip allowing him to drive back from Pittsburg on the turnpike, he scared me to the point that I told him "pull over and park it". When getting back to the terminal I showed the dashcam footage to the head dispatcher and voiced my opinion not to allow that fellow to go any further toward becoming a driver with the company. He would wreck a truck. Then he was assigned to another older driver and He backed up my opinion. So the company went against 2 experienced drivers and turned him loose in a truck. He banged up the front fenders on 3 different trucks, then later had a loaded cement tanker come unhooked crossing a set or RR tracks. After seeing that happen, I just went to management and said" I told you so".

  The second was a young lady that had been a heavy-haul driver as a Marine. She had never unloaded a pneumatic trailer or driven a manual shift transmission in her life. She listened well and in two days she could unload the trailer as well as I could. It took her a bit to get used to a clutch and in about 3 weeks she was driving an 18 speed on her own. She is still a close friend years later.

   Schooling and testing should be difficult for driving ANYTHING. Nowadays you don't even have to parallel park when getting a car license. I've had to do that with a TT many times when making deliveries and amaze most that see me do it in a single try. There is no good reason for going lax on the regulations for those wanting a CDL. I've seen too many bad things that have happened on the roads to think otherwise. One case in point was a FED-EX steering wheel holder that entered the interstate after just leaving a terminal and lost the rear trailer a ways in front of me. When I saw the news that night, I found out that he had gotten about 30 miles down the road before the state police got him stopped. He didn't have any idea he'd lost a trailer and claimed it wasn't his fault as the yard guys hook them together.  As I've always told all the trainees I've had, "You are the driver and are last link of responsibility for ANYTHING that happens and should be able to avoid any problem". Car drivers today are bad enough, we don't need CDL drivers that had it easy getting a CDL.

  Yet anyone can drive an RV as big as a house. 

  

One of the wino knows everything guys that moved in to grow grapes for his wine we are over run with got the 4 door 1 ton and showed his wisdom on the test.  Took his weeks old truck and gooseneck to get his license , tester asked him to do a pre trip inspection. The guys spouted off new truck and new tailor no need to look at anything. He failed end of driving test. Wined all the way home to the guy he had got to go as the experienced driver.

As we are discussing this the SIL is in training to be a licensed trainer by the contractor he has worked for for years. The contractor is preparing to keep having drivers available. 

For a straight truck, farmers don't need anything here in MI for their own stuff.  For tractor/trailer/air brakes, there's a "farmer" version of the license you have to have, quite a bit cheaper, and do not get caught doing anything for hire.

 Ray, they are know here as grapists and winers, pretty much covers it.

When my physical was running out during COVID, and it was nearly impossible to get a doctor's appointment, I got a notice from DMV that my CDL license would be "downgraded to intrastate only" if I did not provide proof of a CDL physical before the expiration date of my previous physical (two years before).

To keep my interstate privilege, I had to have a physical by a certified CDL provider and submit written proof to DMV.

I retired from NYSDOT and several of their drivers do not have a CDL physical and can operate intrastate only. 

What gets me is how most states will let anyone drive any HDT with no license or training if they use it to pull a camper.  One forum I'm on has a lot of them, buy a truck, buy a big camper to pull and take off.  Very few states requires them to have a non-commercial CDL for campers, some pretty heavy, 48-50 foot long.  When I see one, I do my best to put a lot of distance between them and I.

I have a CDL but if ND gets that pissy about having/keeping one, I'll be happy to let it go.  I've been retired 12 years, don't really need it any longer.

I'm not having any fun trucking any more,,,, so jus gonna find something else to do...