Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 3, March 22, 2024
A. Truck Driver
Training Course of Instruction for Class "A" Instruction
(1) Requirements: One commercial motor
vehicle must be provided for each three students during the highway training,
provided four students per commercial motor vehicle are permitted if the
vehicle has been inspected and approved for such use by the Department. No more
than nine students per instructor will be allowed for field training.
The theory and behind-the-wheel instruction must consist of:
laws relating to either interstate and/or intrastate commercial motor vehicle
operations; pre-trip inspection of commercial motor vehicles and both safety
and operational equipment; coupling and uncoupling of combination units, if the
commercial motor vehicle to be driven includes such units; placing the
commercial motor vehicle in operation; use of the commercial motor vehicle's
controls and emergency equipment; operation of the inner-city and interstate
highway traffic and passing; turning, backing, and parking the commercial motor
vehicle; braking and slowing the vehicle by means other than application of the
brakes; and how to comply with driver's hours of service.
(2) Training Record: A training record, in a
format approved by the Department, must be completed and initialed by the
student and instructor each day. The training record should be maintained in
the possession of the driver training school and become part of the student
record. The total coursework of 148 hours must be verified by the school and
signed by the student.
(3) Minimum
Curriculum: To successfully complete truck driver training, licensed persons
eighteen or older must complete a course consisting of a minimum of 148 hours
consisting of theory instruction, range instruction, and behind-the-wheel
instruction and observation on public roads, of which a minimum of sixteen of
those hours must be behind-the-wheel on public roads. Three hours of the
sixteen hours of behind-the-wheel highway training must be completed by each
student between dusk and dawn.
B. Truck Driver Training Course of
Instruction for Class "B" or Straight Truck/Passenger Bus Instruction
(1) Requirements: Any licensed commercial
truck driver training school may apply to the Department to conduct Class "B"
Straight Truck or Commercial Straight Truck/Passenger Bus vehicle
training.
(2) Training Record: A
training record, in a format approved by the Department, must be completed and
signed by the student and instructor each day. The training record should be
maintained in the possession of the driver training school and become part of
the student record. The total coursework of seventy hours must be verified by
the school and signed by the student.
(3) Minimum Curriculum: To successfully
complete truck driver training, licensed persons eighteen or older must
complete a course consisting of a minimum of seventy hours of theory
instruction, range instruction, and behind-the-wheel instruction and
observation on public roads, of which a minimum of ten hours of those must be
behind-the-wheel on public roads.
(4) Students who complete the Class "B"
training who wish to upgrade to a Class "A" may do so with the original school,
provided it is within six months of the completion date of the original
training. Students who upgrade, will be given credit for any theory training
already performed that is equivalent to the Class "A" training.
