Courses we Offer
ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY TEST - PREPARATION FOR THE TWO PART INSPECTION
This course is designed to help none English speaking CDL drivers to enhance their reading, writing and verbalizing in English skills for two-step process during roadside inspections to assess a driver's English proficiency. This includes a verbal interview where interpreters are not allowed, followed by a test of the ability to understand U.S. highway signs. Failure in either step can lead to a citation and being placed out-of-service, with enforcement beginning on June 25, 2025. The Federal law requires that, to operate a commercial vehicle, a driver must "read and speak the English language sufficiently to converse with the general public, to understand highway traffic signs and signals in the English language, to respond to official inquiries, and to make entries on reports and records." According to the guidelines posted on FMCSA 49 CFR § 391.11(b)(2) we would focus on:
- Know the origin and destination of a recent or planned trip
- Describe your duty status, including driving time and the record of duty status Electronic Logbook Device(ELD)
- Present & verbalaized all the information contained in your driver's license, cab card, insurance
- Verbalize and point location for your safety equpment
- Demonstrate knowldege of your shipping documents, annual vehicle inspections dates
- Describe Road Signs name and meaning
- Be ready to answer basic questions about yourself
PERMIT - PREPARATION FOR THE WRITTEN EXAM
Theoretical and practical training with an overview of technical terms surely is the right way to successfully pass the exam. Our focus is on understanding the concept rather than memorizing what is needed for test. Air Brakes, for example, we have determined from personal experience that every student who wants to become professional entry level truck driver, needs to know conceptually what he/she is studying in order not only successfully pass the exam but built carrier based on safety. Our program includes several aspects of preparation:
- Main course would include General Knowledge, Air Brakes, and Combo
- Understanding the concept of what we study by association and practice by re-telling
- Permissible work and rest convention mandated by MC Safety Administration
- Basics of Truck Driving
- Road safety requirements
- Ethics of a truck driver
- Practice Test exams and technique of taking exams
BTW DRIVING TEST - PREPARATION FOR DRIVING EXAM
Behind The Wheel (BTW) Driving Course preparation includes two approaches for those who have experience and know how to drive but require basic knowledge of English and North American structure and control system to pass the exam, as well as for those who have not driven a truck but want to become a real trucker and conquer the vast American nature beauty while earning a lot of money. Whoever you are and what ambitions you might have, here we are to offer you FCMSA Certified CDL Training course that will cover:
- Pre-Trip and Post-Trip Inspection
- Coupling-Uncoupling Truck/Trailer
- Truck Basic Controls & Operation/Dashboard gauges reading
- Trip Planning and Hours of Operation (ELD)
- Air Brake System with emphasis on technical terminology
- Emphasis on practical driving: reversing, safe cornering and parking maneuvers
- Behind the Wheel Driving on Public Roads 1:1 with Instructor
- The basics of driving a truck during inclement weather
- Cargo loading, placing, securing, handling BOL paperwork
- External/Internal Communication with dispatchers, security, lumpers, brokers
- Basic Overview of what to expect from Roadside Inspections, DOT Inspections
- Safe CMV Operation & Use of Drugs and Alcohol
- Built your skills fast on Truck Simulator
- Take Practice exams with emphasis on techniques to handling with less stress