Coming On Board

Welcome aboard. Where are you going to school at?? There are so many of them nowadays and each might vary a little. You can expect the first week or so of classroom, learning laws and regulations and familiarizing you with an 18 wheeler and pretrip inspections. Then you go get your permit.
Then you have a week or so of the obstacle course learning to back into various situations. Then you have the actual behind the wheel training on the road. My school, we went to an abandoned airport property to start learning to shift and then got out on the real roads. Some places might mix the obstacle course and road training together. Then at the end you get tested for your actual CDL. Some places the instructors are authorized by the state to do the testing. Or a tester might come to you for the road test. Other places you are herded down to the testing facilities.

It's alot of fun and a memorable experience. When you first get behind the wheel you will be nervous and sweat bullets. But that goes away as you learn and get comfortable. Eventially it's like driving a car as far as comfort goes. Just listen to the instructor and absorb everything in and it'll go smoothly.