The Georgia Division of Driver Companies (DDS) has adopted a brand new industrial motorized vehicle expertise testing course of, which the division stated updates and modernizes the testing process.
Redesigned by the American Affiliation of Motor Automobile Directors and authorised by the Federal Motor Provider Security Administration, the result’s an easier and what the DDS stated is a “simpler expertise testing course of that greatest assesses an applicant’s readiness to function a industrial motorized vehicle safely.”
DDS Commissioner Spencer R. Moore stated, “The industrial driver’s check has been redesigned and streamlined with new nationwide requirements to make acquiring a Business Driver’s License extra environment friendly with out decreasing necessities and most significantly not compromising security. Candidates are examined on real-world situations that every one deal with security crucial gadgets.”
Whereas the Between DDS Buyer Service Middle is the primary location providing the modernized course of, enlargement to different areas statewide is ongoing. Appointments are required for all highway expertise checks and could also be made at www.dds.georgia.gov.
Appointments for each check varieties, conventional and modernized, can be found till the modernization transition is full statewide. Clients who’ve already handed a number of components of the three-part CDL expertise check can not shift to the modernized check and obtain credit score for sections of the normal check that have been accomplished efficiently. Different necessities for a CDL, together with obligatory Entry Degree Driver Coaching (ELDT), haven’t modified.
DDS enterprise companions, Third-Celebration Testers, even have the choice to supply the modernized check to their college students.
The modernized CDL expertise check stays in three components: car inspection, fundamental management expertise check, and highway check. The inspection and fundamental management expertise check have been up to date through the modernization course of, in keeping with the DDS.
The brand new inspection requires fewer gadgets, and the candidates are allowed to make use of a guidelines (supplied within the “CDL Research Information”) for the order of inspection. The inspection focuses on data and security and comprises gadgets a driver would usually expertise on the job.
The fundamental management expertise portion of the driving examination is carried out on a smaller footprint and checks candidates on: ahead cease; straight-line backing; ahead offset monitoring and reverse offset backing.
