On occasion, a commercial driver would share memories of a truck, like John Vannatta's 1977 Ford WT9000 cab-over.
In June 2011, under cover of darkness, Mohammed Manga, a 35-year-old commercial driver, set out from a camp near Maiduguri for the capital.
Federal rules allow a commercial driver to be on the road up to 10 hours at a time, with at least 8 hours between shifts.
Any commercial driver who is the subject of complaints about impaired driving because of a medical condition must undergo a medical review, he said.
Now, after going through retraining at the Regional Manufacturing Workforce Transition Center in Steelton, Pa., Mr. Anderson is on the verge of being hired as a commercial driver.
The federal Department of Transportation has both interstate and intrastate responsibility for regulating the carrying of hazardous materials and for commercial driver licenses, but only interstate responsibility for buses.
But the number of school systems offering the program has plummeted to about 20percenttodayay, from 90percentt in the 1980s, said Allen R. Robinson, chief executive of the American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association, which represents high school and commercial driver education instructors.
From the Pacific Coast, many cars are driven here, an eight-hour, nearly 500-mile trip that nets the commercial driver only $50. "At this site, the cars usually belong to sailors who bring them here and leave them until they are sold," Mr. Kisilev said.
Allan Windsor was thinking about getting a commercial driver's license.
Mr. Parsons is applying for a commercial driver's license in hopes of finding work.
