Transport Topics

FMCSA Sets New CDL Permit Standards That Require English-Only Testing

This story appears in the May 16 print edition of Transport Topics. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last week published a rule setting new national standards for commercial learner’s ...
Commercial Carrier Journal

Covenant requests extension of exemption pre-CDL drivers

The exemption allows CLP holders who have passed the CDL skills test to drive without a CDL holder in the front seat. Also: ...
CCJ

Backlog of CDL testing could create a chokepoint for driver hiring later this year

Employment in the for-hire trucking industry fell in April by 88,000 jobs due to economic slowdown from coronavirus. While the driver shortage is temporarily erased, a chokepoint in licensing and ...
Overdrive

CDL schools call out 'threat' of 'unscrupulous training entities'

Trade groups representing public and private CDL trainers across the nation wrote a letter to Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy calling out the Federal Motor Carrier Safety ...
Business Insider

America's truck drivers have to ace this test before controlling a 26,000-pound vehicle on the open road — see if you can pass it

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Not just anyone can control a vehicle that can be up to 80,000 pounds. Before long-haul truckers can start working, they need a commercial ...

Armored Trucking Academy, APSU offering 4 week CDL class

From package deliveries to hauling equipment for new growth, truck drivers are in high demand in Middle Tennessee.