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The drive training should include everything involved in the first class. You would be paying for it twice.

 

Most people do not need a class to pass their DMVs written tests for a CDL-permit.

Ask at your local DMV for a free copy of the CDL handbook- study general knowledge, air brakes, and combination vehicles sections, take the tests at the DMV. Pay for your permit after you pass all three sections.

There are online study guides too.

 

Great question....

This course sounds like a prep to pass the CDL written tests which may or may not give you an insight on how a career in trucking will be.

Before I got my first job, I really didn't know how it would feel on me. I just had to do it. The things they tell you in trucking school may or may not apply to you.

Is there a specific area in trucking you have questions about??

 

Don't take that class.

You have to be given a 18 wheeler and someone to tell you what to do and yell at you until you learn not what to do.

There is no such thing as learning to be a trucker without driving at all. Seems to be fishy here, a sort of a taste for those who fall for it.

With that said, if you find a College with a full tractor trailer training program and classes to boot go for it. You have to be on the wheel to learn.

 

Just go to you tube and watch The 2 Russian guys about "CDL key words". Words like "safely" coming to a complete stop are always the correct answer. If you just study key words you can pass the permit exam. The false choices are funny as ####.

 

The practice test on this website are all I needed to pass the dot tests

 

Also the trucking school that I went to at a comunty college was mostly useless they really only had time to show you how to pass the driving test that they gave you for the dot. When you do get your license find a company that will train you not force you to run team. How much can somebody teach when there sleeping in the back

 

The $40 fee sounds like you might be seeing an "extension" course that community colleges love to offer at night and on weekends. They aren't really "courses", just somebody who's familiar with a subject (photography, Microsoft Office, truck driving, flower arranging, etc....) gets free classroom space and a few bucks to meet with newbies.

I agree with taking the practice tests on this very site. Once you consistently score above 90 percent, go to the DMV and you'll pass your permit test. Then you'll be qualified to talk to real truck driving schools. And if you decide that it isn't for you, all you've lost is some study time and whatever the DMV charges for testing.