Ohio CDL Passenger case studies
Ohio CDL Passenger · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The Ohio CDL Passenger endorsement is the additional knowledge and skills qualification a commercial driver must hold before legally operating a commercial motor vehicle designed to carry passengers - for example a bus, motorcoach, or passenger van operated for hire or by a private carrier. It is intended for drivers who already hold, or are working toward, an Ohio commercial driver license and who plan to carry passengers rather than freight alone. The Ohio CDL Passenger case studies are 5 cases and about 3,141 words.
1Crest of the 6% Grade with 44 Aboard
You are the only driver of a 40-foot coach carrying 44 band students and chaperones from Columbus to Marietta. It has rained all afternoon; the pavement is wet and the outside temperature reads 37°F, so there is no ice but traction is reduced.
684 words, about 3 min2Pre-Trip on Bus 17: The Numbers Say No
4:55 a.m., 31°F, dark. You are doing the pre-trip on Bus 17, a 2020 conventional school bus with air brakes and 48 passenger seats.
656 words, about 3 min3Wheelchair Boarding on a Crowned Street
6:20 p.m., November, dark and dry. You pull a 45-foot coach up to the curb in front of a hotel to load 21 passengers, one of whom uses a manual wheelchair.
626 words, about 3 min4Blowout on I-70 at Dusk
in late October, light rain and dusk. You are driving a 47-passenger motorcoach eastbound on I-70 near Zanesville at 65 mph with 48 people aboard.
593 words, about 3 min5Midnight Post-Trip: Tear, Spill, Phone, Dent
You have just finished a 9-hour charter and dropped 42 passengers at the hotel. During your post-trip walk you find: a 3-inch tear in the vinyl of seat 14; a sticky red patch about the size of a hand on the floor beside seat 22 that smells faintly of iron; a passenger's phone on seat 31; and a 6-inch scrape with a dent on the right rear panel, which you know came from the concrete post at the hotel loading zone two hours ago.
582 words, about 3 min