Birken Vogt
Charter Member
As I suspected I made a big mistake not getting it sooner and this is going to be a PITA. I need my class B so I can move from the shop to a service truck. Might get lucky enough to find someone who needs a field mechanic bad enough that they would pay for me to get it… I just think that it’ll be a lot easier to make the move if I already have the CDL. I had a friend who was going to quit and they ended up throwing him in a kw service truck because he already had his class B. I’m an IUOE mechanic currently and I could do the CDL training through the union next year for free, but it still take like 14 days of training through them.
Get a full class A and be done with it. There is an outfit around in CA that rents a 5 speed synchro little RV toter like truck with air brakes and a short 5th wheel gooseneck for testing with no restrictions. But I find myself dragging an over 10k trailer with my pickup once in a while to haul some machine and there is probably something they could get me with, but at least I have the right license. And I could go drive for Bob's sand and gravel if times got tough for some reason.