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The CDL and the learner’s permit

Knowing a license is required is not the same as knowing how to get one. This chapter is the path — which group to hold, how the learner’s permit works, the training that must come first, and the duties that follow you once the license is in your pocket.

In this chapter

• +Which of the three vehicle groups your work needs, and what holding one lets you drive without retesting
• +How a commercial learner’s permit works, what it allows, and the conditions attached to every mile driven on it
• +The training that must come before the test, and what you are obliged to tell your employer and your State afterwards