Commercial Driving Courses In Good Demand

Oct 19
07:14

2012

Emily Smith

Emily Smith

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The Writer gives a detailed account about the facilities of driver education in Alberta and Calgary.

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Alberta is a great place to visit and enjoy its diverse scenery such as the Rocky Mountains,Commercial Driving Courses In Good Demand  Articles Banff National Park and open spaces. It is also famous as a hub of excellent driving education. Alberta follows a Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) program for all new drivers. It is a calibrated driving license program with explicit benchmarks and experience in qualifying for various driving licenses. Driving Courses in Calgary follow the mandates of the Alberta administration including the guidelines on environmental issues. The driving schools follow a structured curriculum that gives high priority to safety of the learners. In Alberta, aspirants enroll in driver training program that ranges from light vehicles to heavy duty vehicles. Alberta feeds the demands of driving classes for Individual learners as well as group driving opportunities with focus on corporations, fleets and business enterprises who are owning fleets.  The Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) program in Alberta is comprehensive with its hard practice sessions; awareness building; safety focus and defensive driving techniques. The rule-based pre-license test in various government approved driving schools goes a long way to achieve safety. In Alberta, driving training programs are structured in a way to make a candidate successfully complete the training for the targeted category of license. The vehicles may be motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses or online defensive driving courses. Calgary TrainingThe driver training covers almost all vehicles such as motorcycles, cars, heavy trucks, school buses in addition to driver training programs aimed at remedying the demerits accumulated by errant drivers.There are vehicles-based driving courses given on motorcycles; cars, trucks in addition to offline and online defensive driving techniques. Calgary the most important city in Alberta province has some superior driving schools. It is home to "A" Driving School that has pioneered many trends in driver education. This award winning driver training institution with 35 years of service caters to a wide spectrum of end users-- individuals, institutions, corporations and online programs on safe and defensive driving.Commercial DrivingA commercial driving license of Class I or Class “A” category must be obtained from driving a Truck. It is a high paying job and calls for hard training. All the accredited driving schools provides lessons on commercial truck driving classes.  A commercial driver’s license is fundamental to a truck driving class. CDL TrainingIn order to drive big rigs, buses, tractor trailers and other heavy duty vehicles, a driving aspirant must possess a commercial driving license. A CDL can be earned in 4 weeks of time and become a graduated truck driver in 6 months. Span of TrainingA CDL Training Program normally takes 160 clock hours with 4 weeks of classes. In the CDL Driver Training Program of about 80 Clock Hours  at least 2-weeks are spent on day classes and 4 weeks on night classes. But truck driving schools offer programs that normally take 700 clock hours; 2 months of on-site and 2 months of on-the-job driver training.  Learners LicenseTo obtain a driver's license one must pass a road driving test, vision and written test. Violating traffic laws such as over speeding can invite fines. Alberta Highways have a speed limit of 100 km/hour with the exception for the Rocky Mountain National Parks where speed limits is 90 km/hour. Rural highways and roads have a speed limit of 80 km/h.Curbs on Distracted DrivingInfant car seats are mandatory in Alberta and a new law bans distracting activities talking on a cell phone, texting, shaving ...etc. All motor vehicles and trailers in Alberta have must have a public liability insurance policy. The minimum liability insurance is $200,000. There must be a proof of insurance when registering a vehicle.