Training & Compliance

Looking for a CDL school in Sacramento? This is the complete Class A and Class B CDL training program at 1 on 1 Truck Academy in West Sacramento — a BPPE approved, FMCSA ELDT registered truck driving school. Every subject we teach, every evaluation you have to pass before you move forward, the California CDL requirements and the documents the DMV needs before it will issue your license, and the three agencies that oversee this school. Read it, then call them and check us.

01Who regulates this school

Three regulators oversee this truck driving school, and each one does a different job.

California Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education (BPPE)

BPPE is the state agency that approves this institution to operate, approves our programs and their length, and inspects us. We are Nirups University of Skills, doing business as 1 on 1 Truck Academy, BPPE School Code SC95475858.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)

FMCSA sets the Entry-Level Driver Training curriculum that every CDL school in the country must teach, and it keeps the Training Provider Registry. We are a registered training provider.

The Training Provider Registry is, plainly, a federal list. FMCSA keeps a record of every truck driving school in the country permitted to train entry-level CDL drivers, and of every student each one certifies. A CDL school has to meet federal standards and be listed before it trains anyone, and the DMV checks the Registry electronically before it will test you.

So "registered" is not a marketing badge. It is the difference between your training counting and your training being worth nothing.

You do not have to take our word for any of this, and you do not need a number from us. The Registry is public and searchable by name and by state. It is free, it takes about a minute, and it needs no login: tpr.fmcsa.dot.gov/Search. Search us, and search any other CDL school you are considering. If a provider is not listed, the DMV cannot accept their certification — which makes it worth checking before you pay anyone, including us.

Two things worth knowing while you are there. To be listed at all, a training provider has to self-certify under penalty of perjury that it complies with the federal training rules — curriculum, facilities, vehicles, instructors, and applicable State requirements. And once you have trained with us, you can log in and check your own record to see exactly what we submitted for you.

A note on wording, because it causes a lot of confusion. FMCSA does not approve or certify training providers — it approves applications to be listed on the Registry, and asks that no provider describe itself as FMCSA approved or certified. The accurate term is registered. That is the term we use.

Yolo County and the California workforce system

This school sits in Yolo County, and Yolo County's Local Workforce Development Board is the local authority that reviews and nominates training providers for California's Eligible Training Provider List. The list itself is maintained by the state Employment Development Department and administered through CalJOBS, but under federal law the state runs it in partnership with the local boards — which means Yolo County vouches for us, annually.

That matters for two reasons. It is a second set of eyes on this school that has nothing to do with BPPE or FMCSA. And ETPL eligibility is judged on outcomes, not paperwork: providers have to report performance to stay listed, and the listing has to be renewed every year.

California is divided into local workforce areas, and each one keeps its own list. The Sacramento Employment and Training Agency (SETA) is the board for Sacramento County and maintains its own Local Training Provider List. We are approved there as well — but we are in Yolo County, so Yolo is our board, and Yolo manages our ETPL listing. We are not currently accepting WIOA-funded referrals through SETA.

02Class A and Class B CDL programs

Which class do you need?

Class A is for combination vehicles — a towing unit rated over 26,000 pounds pulling a trailer or trailers rated over 10,000 pounds. Tractor-trailers, big rigs, multi-trailer freight. A Class A also lets you drive anything a Class B or Class C driver can.

Class B is for heavy single vehicles rated over 26,000 pounds, towing nothing heavier than 10,000 pounds. Straight trucks, box trucks, buses, dump trucks, delivery rigs.

Inspection and Skills are one combined phase, not two. Both are behind-the-wheel range training under the federal curriculum, so we run them as a single block with a single hour budget. Every hour spent on Inspection comes out of that budget — the sooner you are proficient on Inspection, the more Skills time you have left.

03What DMV requires from you

We teach you the material and we train you on the truck. What we cannot do is pull your documents for you. These are DMV's requirements, and they are the most common reason a student's start date slips — so get them moving now.

Documents you must bring to DMV

• Proof of identity — original or certified. A valid, unexpired U.S. passport or passport card; a certified copy of a U.S. birth certificate issued by a city, county or state vital statistics office; a Certificate of Naturalization or Certificate of U.S. Citizenship; or a valid, unexpired Permanent Resident Card. Photocopies are not accepted.
• Social Security number — your original Social Security card.
• California residency — proof of your California address, matching the address on your application.
• Commercial Driver License Application — Form DL 44C. You can start it online as an eDL 44C before you go in.

Federal guidelines issued in September 2025 placed new restrictions on CDL issuance to applicants with limited-term legal presence. If that may apply to you, raise it with us early.

DOT physical

A medical examination by an examiner listed on FMCSA's National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners — not a regular doctor's visit. You submit a Medical Examination Report (MCSA-5875) and a Medical Examiner's Certificate (MCSA-5876). Separate from this school and separate from DMV, at your cost, and the certificate expires — so do not get it so early that it lapses before you test.

Drug testing

This school is not your employer. The federal drug and alcohol testing program applies to motor carriers who employ CDL drivers. It does not apply to a training provider, and we do not run it. What federal law requires of us is that you self-certify, before behind-the-wheel training begins, that you comply with the federal rules on controlled substances testing, age, medical certification, licensing, and driving record.

04ELDT theory instruction

This is the entire theory curriculum. Not a summary of it — every unit we are required to teach, listed the way the federal rule lists it, so you can hold this page next to the regulation and check us.

Online and in person — how ELDT theory is delivered

Federal law defines theory instruction broadly enough to be delivered online, and we use that. Our ELDT theory is a combination of online and in-person instruction, which means you can work through material at your own pace instead of waiting for a classroom to fill.

Behind-the-wheel is the opposite, and the rule is strict about it: range and public road training must be conducted in an actual commercial vehicle. Federal law does not permit it to be delivered online, and it does not permit a simulator to be used to complete it or to demonstrate proficiency.

Basic Operation

• Orientation — safety fundamentals, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and Hazardous Materials Regulations, cargo securement responsibilities, disqualification and fine provisions, weigh stations and scales, size and weight limits, low-clearance awareness, bridge formulas
• Control Systems / Dashboard — gauges, instruments, safety belts, mirrors, primary and secondary controls, steering, accelerating, shifting, braking systems (ABS, hydraulic, air), parking
• Pre-Trip and Post-Trip Inspections — including appropriate inspection locations and enroute inspections
• Basic Control — sharp left and right turns, vehicle centering, restricted-area maneuvering, interstate entry and exit
• Shifting / Operating Transmissions
• Backing and Docking — Get Out and Look (GOAL), facility evaluation, backing setups, use of spotters
• Coupling and Uncoupling

Safe Operating Procedures

• Visual search
• Communication
• Distracted driving
• Speed management
• Space management
• Night operation
• Extreme driving conditions — including proper tire chaining procedures

Advanced Operating Practices

• Hazard perception — including construction and work zones
• Skid control and recovery, jackknifing, other emergencies — evasive steering, emergency braking, off-road recovery, brake failure, tire blowouts, hydroplaning, rollovers
• Railroad-highway grade crossings — including Emergency Notification Systems

Vehicle Systems and Reporting Malfunctions

• Identification and diagnosis of malfunctions
• Roadside inspections — out-of-service violations and the penalties for operating under an OOS order
• Maintenance

Non-Driving Activities

• Handling and documenting cargo
• Environmental compliance issues
• Hours of service — Driver's Daily Log (electronic and paper), timesheets, logbook recap
• Fatigue and wellness awareness
• Post-crash procedures — including post-crash controlled substances and alcohol testing requirements
• External communications — including FMCSA English language proficiency requirements
• Whistleblower and coercion — whistleblower protections and FMCSA coercion reporting procedures
• Trip planning
• Drugs and alcohol
• Medical requirements

Class A applicants who already hold a valid Class B CDL may complete the Theory Instruction Upgrade Curriculum instead of the standard curriculum, as Appendix A permits.

05Endorsements — optional

Endorsements are part of your classroom work, so the decision is made here — before Skills begin. They are optional and are not required for your CDL. We offer HazMat (H), Tanker (N), and Doubles and Triples (T).

HazMat has two extra steps. Endorsement training is theory only, but we must submit your HazMat certification to the Training Provider Registry before DMV is allowed to test you — so you have to tell us when you are ready. And a HazMat endorsement requires a TSA security threat assessment: fingerprinting and a background check, separate from this school and from DMV, with its own cost and several weeks of lead time. Start it early.

Think about where you want to be working in two years, not just next month. Tanker and doubles/triples open doors. HazMat opens more.

We issue this training ourselves

Endorsement training has to come from a provider listed on the federal Training Provider Registry. We are that provider. You complete your endorsement training here, as part of your current enrollment, and we transmit the certification ourselves. You are not sent to an outside vendor and you are not paying one.

We do not accept outside ELDT certificates

Federal law permits theory and behind-the-wheel training to come from two different registered providers. This school does not do that. As of this year, we do not accept ELDT training certificates issued by anyone else. If you trained elsewhere, you complete your theory here.

Federal law already refuses to let the behind-the-wheel portion be split — range and public road must come from the same training provider. We go one step further and keep theory here too. That last step is our policy, not a federal rule, and here is the reason for it: training providers have been removed from the federal Registry for fraudulent certification. We transmit every certification under our own registration, and we are not willing to put our name on a certificate we did not issue and cannot verify. If that costs us an enrollment, so be it.

06Pre-trip inspection training

The pre-trip inspection is its own course with its own evaluation, and it is the part of the DMV exam that fails the most students. You do not begin Skills until you are proficient on it. It breaks into three parts:

• Air brakes — the applied air leakage test, governor cut-out, low air warning, spring brake pop-out, and the tug tests. You explain, demonstrate and perform the full air brake check, calling out every pressure reading as you go.
• In-cab — gauges and instruments, warning lights and buzzers, safety belt, mirrors, steering play, horn, wipers and washers, heater and defroster, lighting indicators, emergency equipment.
• Exterior — engine compartment, steering and suspension, brakes, wheels and tires, lights and reflectors, coupling system, frame and body, cargo securement.

You perform it from memory. The standards in this handbook are the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations you will work under for your entire career — this is not test prep, it is the first day of the job.

07Skills — the California basic control skills test

We train to California's modernized Basic Control Skills test, which DMV introduced in July 2023. It is four exercises in a smaller footprint, and each one is its own proficiency gate:

• Forward stop — bring the vehicle to a precise stop inside a three-foot box. No getting out to look. Proficiency required.
• Straight-line backing — back between boundaries without touching or crossing them. Proficiency required.
• Forward offset tracking — maneuver the vehicle forward around objects, scored on clearance. Proficiency required.
• Reverse offset backing — offset back and park at the end of the alley, rear bumper inside the box. Proficiency required.

Under the modernized test, reverse offset tracking replaced the old parallel park and alley dock exercises. If you have been studying an older handbook — or training at a school still teaching the 2005 model — that is what changed. DMV identifies which testing locations use the modernized test and which still follow the 2005 model, and we train you for the one you will actually sit.

The Vehicle Inspection test changed at the same time: every applicant now performs a full inspection, there are fewer items with the focus on what is critical to safety, coupling system criteria were revised, and a checklist is available to use during the exam. Scoring criteria and automatic failures did not change. There were no changes to the road test.

Observation, and what 1 on 1 actually means here

During Inspection and Skills, sessions run two hours and there may be a second student on the range with you. That is by design, and it is still 1 on 1 instruction. When you are not in the seat, you are standing next to your instructor being taught. Watching a maneuver from outside the truck and doing it from the seat are two different lessons, and you need both.

That is Get Out And Look — GOAL, and it is not a scheduling convenience. It is required federal curriculum: the training provider must teach GOAL as it applies to every backing unit. It is also what the industry has run on for fifty years, and the modernized DMV test allows looks for exactly that reason. Both students are training the entire time.

Public road driving is different — that is you and your instructor, alone in the truck, no exceptions.

08Public road driving and the DMV road test

Ten hours, 1 on 1. You and your instructor in the truck, with active two-way communication throughout. You demonstrate documented proficiency in:

• Vehicle controls — left turns, right turns, lane changes, curves at highway speeds, interstate entry and exit, controlled stopping
• Shifting / transmission
• Communications and signaling
• Visual search
• Speed and space management
• Safe driver behavior
• Hours of service

Hazard perception, railroad-highway grade crossings, night operation, extreme driving conditions, and skid control and recovery are covered and discussed during road training as the federal curriculum directs, though federal law does not require a proficiency demonstration for them.

We do not use simulation devices to conduct behind-the-wheel training or to demonstrate proficiency.

09Final evaluation and clearance for DMV

This is the part of the program that matters most. You are evaluated at every gate — theory, inspection, each range maneuver, road driving — and proficiency has to be demonstrated and documented at each one before the next opens. Nothing is waved through. Where federal law sets a floor, we sit above it: the federal theory minimum is 80 percent, and we require 90.

The Final Practical Evaluation

The last gate. It follows the same format the California DMV uses for the CDL Skills Test — and it is not run by your instructor. It is run by the Chief Academic Officer. He is the one who signs you off.

That is deliberate, and it is worth understanding. The person who trained you does not get to clear you. Your instructor has spent weeks with you and wants you to succeed; that is exactly why he is not the one holding the clipboard on the last day. If you do not demonstrate proficiency the first time, we may give you another attempt before your DMV appointment, if you have training time left.

What we enter in the Training Provider Registry

Your training goes into the Registry in three parts, and we enter each one as you demonstrate proficiency in it — never before:

• Theory — your classroom instruction
• Range — your inspection and skills
• Public road — your driving

Only complete training is submitted, and FMCSA's standard for complete is not a date and not a number of hours — it is that the curriculum has been met and the provider has assessed the driver and determined them to be proficient. Until all three parts are in the Registry, the DMV is not permitted to test you, whatever your appointment card says.

Clearance is a decision, not a date

We weigh your proficiency evaluations across every phase, your documented behind-the-wheel hours, and your attendance record. Only then do we recommend you for the California DMV Skills Examination and transmit your certifications to the Registry.

If your hours are exhausted and you have not demonstrated the required proficiency, you receive a Certificate of Attendance showing the hours you completed, a Certificate of Graduation is not issued, no certification is transmitted, and the DMV cannot test you. We do not certify students who are not ready — that is the whole reason a certificate from this school is worth something to the company reading it.

10Graduation, your DMV drive test and job placement

Graduation here is a working session, not a handshake and a photograph. It is the last time we have you in the building before the DMV does, and we use it.

We check your records one more time

This school runs its own student portal. Your schedule is posted there and texted to you, and your training hours are logged there — you confirm them with your instructor at the end of every training day, before you leave. Do not assume it happened. Check it.

Entered is not the same as approved. Every training hour has to be approved, and that approval rests solely with the Chief Academic Officer. Nobody else signs it off.

At graduation we go through the whole record with you one final time — your hours, your proficiency evaluations, your attendance — and we confirm that your theory, range and public road entries are in the Training Provider Registry and correct. Those hours are the hours that go to the federal government and onto your Form DL 1236. If they are wrong on the portal, they are wrong everywhere.

The California 15-hour rule — and how far past it we train

Be careful with this one, because it is widely misunderstood. Federal law absolutely requires the training — the entire curriculum, every unit, with your proficiency assessed and documented in each. What it does not set is a clock. FMCSA's guidance is explicit: the ELDT regulations do not require a minimum number of hours for the completion of behind-the-wheel training. The standard is proficiency, not time served.

California goes further and sets a clock as well: 15 hours behind the wheel, at least 10 of them on a public road — which breaks down as 10 hours driving on public roads and a minimum of 5 hours in the yard on the range.

That is the state minimum. Here is how our programs compare to it:

Class A behind-the-wheel training here is four times the California minimum. Class B is more than three times. Add the classroom — 60 hours on Class A, 40 on Class B — and the full programs run 120 and 90 hours. We are not training you to clear a legal floor. The floor is not the point.

Your documents for the drive test

Form DL 1236 is the state document certifying you received those hours. We complete and sign Section 2 at the school. You complete your section and sign it. You submit it to DMV — not us. DMV will not issue your CDL until they have it. You sign it under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California. Read it before you sign it.

We go through all four with you at graduation. Bring them on the day:

• Your commercial learner's permit (CLP)
• A copy of your driver's license
• A copy of your DOT physical
• Your DL 1236

Missing one can cost you the appointment, and appointments are not easy to get back.

What to expect at the DMV

We walk you through the day itself: what the examiner will ask, the order it happens in, and how to conduct yourself. Set the parking brake. Three points of contact. Listen to the instruction and ask the examiner to repeat it if you did not catch it — that is allowed, and it is better than guessing.

The examiner is not your instructor and is not there to coach you. Treat the exam the way you would treat a first day on the job, because the habits are the same ones a carrier will judge you on later.

Your review of this school

We ask every graduate to review us, and we ask at graduation — before your DMV result, deliberately.

Review us on the training and the service, not on the outcome. The question we actually want answered is a simple one: did we deliver at least 90 to 95 percent of what we promised you? Did we teach you properly? Did we schedule you fairly? Was the equipment right? Were you ready when you walked into that exam? Those are the things we control, and they are the things you should hold us to.

Whether you pass on the day is between you and the DMV examiner. We do not control it, we do not claim to, and a review that turns on it tells the next student nothing useful about this school.

And if the honest answer is that we fell short, write that. We want the critical reviews. We read them, we act on them, and they are the only way this school gets better — a wall of five stars teaches us nothing and tells you nothing. We treat a hard review as a learning tool, not an attack, and we would far rather hear it than have a student walk out quiet. If an honest review costs us an enrollment, so be it. We would sooner lose one than never find out what we got wrong.

Job placement and what is out there

A CDL is a licence, not a job. At graduation we sit down and talk about the work itself — what kinds of driving jobs are actually available around Sacramento and the Central Valley, what each one pays and demands, and which suit where you are in your life. Local and regional routes. Over-the-road. Dedicated lanes. Agriculture and food-grade work through the Valley. Beverage and grocery distribution. Construction, dump and mixer work. Tanker and hazmat if you took the endorsements.

We provide job placement assistance: help with applications, what carriers look for, how to present your training record, and interview preparation. Some graduates want a refresher run before an interview and we will give you one.

What we will not do is promise you a job or a wage. Nobody honest can. What we can tell you is that when a carrier's HR department calls this school — and they do call — we answer honestly, every time, and a clean record here is worth something on that call.

Your transcript and certificate

Every graduate leaves with a Certificate of Graduation and a transcript of their training — hours completed, evaluations passed, endorsements earned. Keep them. Carriers ask for them, and so do employers years later.

If your hours were exhausted before you demonstrated the required proficiency, what you receive instead is a Certificate of Attendance showing the hours you completed. It is an honest document and it says what it says.

Enrollment verification and records

Before behind-the-wheel training begins, every applicant self-certifies compliance with the federal rules on controlled substances testing, age, medical certification, licensing and driving record, and we verify that you hold a valid CLP or CDL.

We keep every record the federal rules require — self-certifications, CLP and CDL copies, instructor qualification records, theory and behind-the-wheel lesson plans, and individual student assessment records — for a minimum of three years, and produce them to FMCSA within 48 hours of request.

Your training record holds your hours, your attendance, and any safety violations. When an employer or a verification service calls this school, we answer honestly. We do not change, remove, or soften a student's record. Not for anyone, not for any reason. Your record is what happened.

11Your protections as a student

"As a prospective student, you are encouraged to review this catalog before signing an enrollment agreement. You are also encouraged to review the School Performance Fact Sheet, which must be provided to you before signing an enrollment agreement."

Read both. The Fact Sheet tells you how this school actually performs — not our marketing.

• School Performance Fact Sheet — Class A:view the Fact Sheet
• School Performance Fact Sheet — Class B:view the Fact Sheet
• School Catalog:available in Student Resources

Student Tuition Recovery Fund

It is a state requirement that a student who pays tuition pays a state-imposed assessment for the Student Tuition Recovery Fund. The STRF exists to relieve or mitigate economic loss suffered by a student at a qualifying institution who prepaid tuition and suffered a loss.

The full STRF statement, your eligibility, the current assessment and how to file a claim are set out on our Fees & Payment page, in our School Catalog, and in your enrollment agreement. Read it before you sign.

Cancellation and refunds

You have the right to cancel. You may cancel your enrollment agreement and obtain a refund of charges paid through attendance at the first class session, or the seventh day after enrollment, whichever is later.

After that, refunds are prorated against the hours you have completed — up to the 60 percent mark of your program. Once you pass 60 percent, no refund is available.

• Class A — 60 percent of a 120-hour program is 72 hours.
• Class B — 60 percent of a 90-hour program is 54 hours.

Know where that line falls before you get near it, and ask us if you are not sure where you stand. Your enrollment agreement governs the financial terms of your training and this summary does not replace it — read it before you sign. Full detail is on our Refund Policy and School Policies pages.

If you have a complaint — our open door policy

Bring it to us first, and you do not need to put it in writing to start. The founder and Chief Executive Officer of this school keeps an open door. Anything that concerns safety, any problem with another student, any problem with a member of our staff — come and say it. You do not need an appointment, you do not need it typed up, and you do not need to be certain you are right.

What happens next is not informal. Every complaint is documented. Where two students are involved, we take an individual statement from each, we verify them, both statements are signed, you are given a copy, and a copy is kept in our records. Nothing is settled in a hallway and forgotten.

You can put it in writing if you prefer — office@1on1truckacademy.com. And if we do not resolve it, you have the right to take it to the Bureau directly. You do not need our permission to do that.

"A student or any member of the public may file a complaint about this institution with the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education by calling (888) 370-7589 or by completing a complaint form, which can be obtained on the bureau's internet website www.bppe.ca.gov."

Any questions a student may have regarding this page or our catalog that have not been satisfactorily answered by the institution may be directed to the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education at 1747 N. Market Blvd., Suite 225, Sacramento, CA 95834, www.bppe.ca.gov, toll-free telephone (888) 370-7589, or by fax (916) 263-1897.

"The Office of Student Assistance and Relief is available to support prospective students, current students, or past students of private postsecondary educational institutions in making informed decisions, understanding their rights, and navigating available services and relief options. The office may be reached by calling (888) 370-7589, Option #5, or by visiting https://osar.bppe.ca.gov/."

12Safety violations: zero tolerance

Safety is our highest priority, and this school has zero tolerance for safety violations. If you commit one, you will be written up. It goes in your training record and it stays there.

This is an active truck yard

Your training does not happen in an empty lot. This is a working yard. Other trucks are moving, other students are training, instructors are working with them, and equipment is going in and out. You are expected to be vigilant about other truck activity and other students at all times — not just when it is your turn.

Keep your head up the whole time you are outside a vehicle. Know where every truck is and where every person is. Assume a truck that is stopped is about to move, and assume the driver cannot see you, because from up in that seat there is a very good chance he cannot.

Most of the rules below exist because of this. The vest, the closed-toe shoes, three points of contact, phones away, no truck moving without an instructor present — none of that is bureaucracy. It is what keeps you visible and predictable to people operating eighty thousand pounds a few feet away from you. It is also the exact awareness a carrier will expect from you on a live dock in six months.

No visitors in the yard

Your training session is you and your instructor. Do not bring family, friends, or anyone else along to watch. We know it comes from a good place — a wife who wants to see what you have signed up for, a friend thinking about enrolling too. The answer is still no, and it is not us being unwelcoming.

An active truck yard is not a spectator area. Anyone standing in it who has not been trained, briefed and covered is a hazard to themselves and a distraction to you. A person who does not know to watch for a reversing trailer is precisely the person who gets hurt by one. And your instructor's attention belongs on you and the truck, not on keeping track of a bystander.

If someone wants to see this school, call the office and we will set it up properly. Come and look at the yard, meet the instructors, walk around the equipment, ask us anything. We are glad to do it and we would rather they came. What we will not do is have them standing on the range while you are training.

Safety violations include

• Using a phone while driving — including calling or texting this school
• Unnecessary cell phone use in the yard
• Moving a truck without an instructor present
• No high-visibility vest
• No closed-toe shoes
• Failing to maintain three points of contact
• Letting the hood drop
• Student teaching student
• Two students in a truck while it is moving

Why this matters more than anything else we have told you

When you apply for a driving job, that company's HR department or their job verification service calls this school. The first thing they ask is whether you had any safety violations. The next thing they ask is about your attendance.

We answer honestly. Every time.

A safety violation on your record can cost you a job offer before you ever sit down for the interview. This is the trucking industry. Safety is the whole business.

The phone rule is not a house rule. It is federal law.

No driver may use a hand-held mobile telephone or send a text while driving a commercial motor vehicle. Under the federal definition, "driving" includes sitting in stopped traffic and waiting at a red light. It stops being driving only when you have moved off the highway and halted somewhere the vehicle can safely remain. The one exception is contacting law enforcement or emergency services.

Penalties reach $2,750 for the driver and $11,000 for the carrier that allowed it. A second offense disqualifies you for 60 days. A third disqualifies you for 120. Two or more serious traffic violations and your State suspends your CDL.

We enforce it in this yard so that it is already a habit before it is your license.

If you are ever unsure whether something is allowed — stop and ask your instructor. No question is too small. Asking costs you nothing. A write-up can cost you a career.

We do not want a single student in this school to have a safety violation on their record. Not one.

13Conduct and harassment: zero tolerance

Everyone in this yard paid to learn a trade. Nobody paid to put up with anything else. You are entitled to train here without being harassed, propositioned, insulted or intimidated — and so is every other student, and so is every member of our staff.

What is not tolerated here

• Sexual advances, comments, or contact toward another student or a member of staff. Unwanted means unwanted the first time. There is no second warning.
• Slurs and abuse of any kind — including about a person's sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, age or disability.
• Threatening, aggressive or confrontational behaviour toward anyone in this school.
• Intimidation, bullying, or hazing, however it is dressed up.

None of that is banter and none of it is a joke that landed badly. If you would not say it or do it on a dock, in front of a dispatcher, with your name on the truck — do not bring it in here. We are training you for an industry where that conduct ends careers.

What happens

Conduct of this kind results in removal from training. It is written up, it goes in the training record, and the financial terms of your enrollment agreement still apply. The person who has to leave is the person who did it — not the person it was done to.

If it happens to you, or you see it happen

Tell your instructor, or come straight to the office. You do not have to put it in writing and you do not have to be sure. The founder and Chief Executive Officer keeps an open door for exactly this — walk in and say it. Writing is welcome if you would rather (office@1on1truckacademy.com), but it is not a condition of being heard.

Every report is documented. Where two people are involved, each gives an individual statement, the statements are verified and signed, you get a copy, and a copy stays on file. You do not have to handle it yourself, and reporting it will not cost you your place here. It will not. Doing nothing costs this school more than the enrollment ever will.

Our full grievance procedure is set out in section 11, along with your right to take a complaint to the Bureau directly.

1 on 1 Truck Academy
3602 West Capitol Avenue
West Sacramento, CA 95691
(916) 380-1218 · office@1on1truckacademy.com

Note the spelling: 1on1 is numerals, not words.

Regulatory citations on this page reflect 49 CFR Part 380 as published in the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations and the California Vehicle Code as published by California Legislative Information. BPPE School Code: SC95475858. Verify our federal listing at tpr.fmcsa.dot.gov/Search. Last reviewed: July 2026.