Simulation for CDL prep

NO. Focusing on the school before finding where you will work is going to put you into the pipeline of newbies that QUICKLY leave the industry long before they finish 1 year of work. The school is a formality, you need to learn what they teach. But the CDL school, ANY CDL SCHOOL only teaches you to pass the state road test. SO WHAT? Find the employer that fits what you need and only afterwards decide how to get the CDL license. CDL school is not like a mini-college experience. It's usually 3 weeks of 10-12 hour days and everything is cookie-cutter. There is not much time to learn anything but the basic skills before you test. You need to have a job lined up for the day after you finish CDL school. If not it's very easy to not have a job for months and then need to pay for a refresher course before you can get hired.

Some of you comments are you being 300% certain about a mistake some of us see you walking into. We are trying to help you not make those mistakes. 80+% of newbies quit long before they work a year in the industry. MOST of that is due to NOT FINDING the job that fits, and none of it is from picking the wrong CDL school. If the future employer has their own training program, then sign the contract and go through their sponsored CDL training. If your future employer only hires newbies from the ABC Trucking School, then only go to the ABC Trucking School. If your future employer hires newbies from ANY CDL SCHOOL WITH 160 HOURS OF TRAINING then go to whatever CDL school is most convenient for you. The goal is the job, not just a CDL. You don't do yourself any favor by thinking you can just quit your first job after a month or two if you don't like it because a newbie with almost no experience is sometimes less hire-able than a newbie with zero experience. Having that short experience signals SOMETHING WENT WRONG and trucking companies are already afraid to hire newbies. You don't know what you don't know, even if you are confident. Everyone here has years or decades of experience and are trying to help you not step on the common land-mines.