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Re:France: Thousands of protesters wrongly punished under dr... by UncleEntity on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:32PM (#24732910)
US military truck drivers (88M) doesn't give you a civilian CDL as part of the training. You can use a CDL as the training part to get a military license though -- aside from having to have a specific license for every different vehicle to be qualified to drive them but that's as simple as driving around the block to get 'signed off'.

If you have a military drivers license you can drive on public streets in military vehicles but you can't use it to drive a civilian vehicle on military or public roads.

(used to be an 88M and driver testing NCO)

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Re:France: Thousands of protesters wrongly punished under dr... by throwaway0a5e on Friday October 09, 2020 @02:49PM (#24733082)
It doesn't get you a CDL but it gives you the experience needed to get a CDL with a tiny bit of book study and a truck to borrow and without incurring a bunch of debt or becoming an indentured servant to Swift of similar.

Someone who's day job is dicking around in an M911 will be able to get a CDL with minimal effort compared to some rando off the street and they will likely be able to skip the "spend a few years holding a steering wheel for a dry van and get treated like crap by dispatch" part of the truck driver career progression.

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