Stressed to the max in Cdl school

No offense but with a pregnant wife and two kids unless you can have a local job this is a very bad idea for you. Yes it gets easier as school goes along. It is hard enough going to school and staying in a motel alone and studying at night couldn't imagine how hard it is to do that with everything you have on your plate.

 

My advise is chill. Yes there is a lot of info to cover but the more you dwell on things the more you are going to get stressed out. Don't focus on everything you don't know just take it slow and learn the best you can. It's called school for a reason, your there to learn (you will) but you don't have to learn everything overnight. You will be fine

 

Repetition Repetition Repetition

I thought I would never be able to remember all the steps on the air brake procedure. But after repeating it 5 million times I did. Good luck you can do it -

 

Depends on your State but get familiar with the guts of the truck, doing it in the way the test
happens is imo best >Drivers side >Front >Passenger side > etc. I found the guy in the 2nd
link 'Crazybags' really cool and helpful you can go thru his videos. Not really a fan of the
Mega that's here but these truckers are great.

 

I'm probably the last guy you want advice from, but here it is and it's important.

1. Repetition is the mother of success -- do it enough times until it becomes second nature or instinctive. You are not going to learn everything in one study session, break it up into parts that are small and memorize them, do it over again and again.

2. Perfect practice makes perfect -- practice the pretrip walk around on your own and talk it out. When I was tested out, my pretrip took 28 minutes and I was parched from all the talking.

3. If you want this CDL bad enough, you have to focus like a laser on it. All distractions have to disappear from your mindset.

 

I did it with a brand new baby and new wife and another child. Who are you to tell him it isn’t good for him? I did Otr straight out of school then I leased only 4 weeks out of school then I quit Otr and got a local job without planning same day I quit.

 

Your #3 yes sir that’s it. When I need to focus everything becomes what I’m focusing on. I delete everything but the subject and everything I talk about is just that.

 

Who am I? I am nobody but have in the past seen it over a few times where after all the struggle of going through school getting the CDL then quitting because of home life. It was just my opinion wasn't an order jeez lighten up