CDL Driver Training
Driving Academy schools offer affordable, state-approved classroom and behind-the-wheel lessons to help future truck operators earn their Commercial Driver’s License (CDL). Proper training takes expert teachers. With decades of on-the-road and education experience, our qualified instructors take the art of teaching how to drive a tractor trailer seriously. Learn more about CDL driver training at Driving Academy.
Getting Your CDL Is Simple as 1-2-3
Getting your CDL at Driving Academy is a relatively short and painless process. We offer top CDL education to help you become a certified truck driver in as little as 1 to 4 weeks. Regardless, if you want to learn how to drive a bus, box truck, semi or other large vehicle, our tried-and-true training method has helped over 10,000 students start on the Road to Freedom.
Learn more about the simple steps to getting your truck driver training started.
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Step 1 - Pick Your CDL Class
Driving Academy offers its students three types of CDL training programs, depending on which kind of large vehicle students want to drive:
A CDL Class A license is for tractor-trailers or large vehicles that weigh over 26,000 pounds and have a trailer that weighs more than 10,000 pounds. Once you get your Class A CDL, you can also drive almost any Class B vehicle. This is the most popular CDL license.
CDL Class B is for box trucks and delivery trucks. A Class B vehicle is any vehicle weighing over 26,000 pounds with or without a trailer, weighing less than 10,000 pounds. Examples of Class B vehicles include dump trucks, box trucks, garbage trucks, and cement mixers.
A CDL Class B+ P allows you to drive vehicles that weigh more than 26,000 pounds and can transport 16 or more passengers. A city bus, school bus or tour bus are each examples of Class B vehicles. When you have a CDL Class B+P license, you can also drive any other Class B vehicle.
Step 2 - Pick Your CDL Training Program
With local training yards throughout the country, including New Jersey, Indiana, Florida, Oregon & more, finding a “cdl school near me” is easy. At each Driving Academy campus, potential truck driving students have options when it comes to choosing a CDL driving training course.
Each of the big rig driver training programs include plenty of time in the yard practicing on real eighteen-wheelers and buses.
Our truck yard training can be split into three main categories:
- Pre-drive inspection training
- Basic skills and parking maneuvers
- Proper road driving
Unlike other schools, you get hands-on instruction in the yard with our expert educators.
Guaranteed CDL Training Courses
- 100% success rate
- Most popular program
- 100+ hours of classroom and hands-on yard and road training
- Readies students to pass their permit test
- Use of the same vehicle on the road test that you’ll train on
- Unlimited road tests at no extra cost
Driving Academy’s guaranteed training courses are the most extensive CDL courses that we offer. These courses usually include over 100 hours of training in and out of the classroom. They are designed for people who take their future CDL career very seriously.
The guaranteed training courses offer virtual classroom training to prepare students to pass the written tests for getting their CDL permits. They also come with yard and road training to prepare them to pass the CDL road test.
We are so confident in the success of this course that anyone who enrolls, will have unlimited road test attempts and vehicle rentals. This means students enrolled in this program have unlimited tries to pass all CDL testing, both written and road exams. As long as the student shows up and participates in all our scheduled training and re-training, we will stick with them until they earn their CDL – Guaranteed.
CDL Full Training Courses
- 80+ hours yard and road training
- CDL permit prep course
- Use of the same vehicle on the road test that you trained on
- Multiple free road tests included ($450 value)
Driving Academy’s full CDL truck driving school courses are designed to take students from zero to hero in driving. The full courses start with virtual classroom training to help students pass the written exams, which will earn them a valid CDL permit. We then bring students to the yard and train them to pass the CDL road test.
Our full courses also include a limited number of truck rentals for the CDL road test, as well as our lifetime job placement program. However, they do not come with unlimited road test attempts like the guaranteed training course does.
CDL Half Training Courses
- For students with permit already
- Limited to pre-trip and road test prep – no permit prep
- Value course
- Quick completion
- Use of the same vehicle on the road test that you trained on
- 1 or 2 free road tests included ($450 value)
If a student already has a CDL permit, the half courses at Driving Academy are designed with them in mind. If a student already possesses a valid CDL permit, there is no need to start with classroom training – we will move you right into our yard training. In the Driving Academy yard, we will train you to pass the very difficult two-and-a-half-hour CDL road test. Like the Full CDL Training class you have a limited number of free road test attempts.
CDL Refresher Courses
Do you already have your CDL but haven’t used it in a while? Driving Academy offers refresher training courses.
An employer might require the refresher course if you do not have any recent over-the-road trucking experience. We help you brush off the cobwebs and get back to the driver’s seat with the skills you need for success.
During our refresher course, we will train you on how to inspect your truck inside and out and park your tractor-trailer. You’ll learn road driving either with a manual or automatic transmission.
Custom Corporate CDL Training Courses
Driving Academy offers group or corporate CDL training options, as well. If your employees need commercial driver’s licenses, we are here to help. We can set up a time for your team to come to us. Or, if your team is big enough, we might be able to come to you. Give your nearest location a call for more information.
Step 3 - Pass Your CDL Road Test
Pass Your CDL Road Test
After you have completed truck driving school, you’re now ready to take your CDL road test. At Driving Academy, you can take your road test at our third-party testing site in Levittown, Pennsylvania.
Our students are lucky because they can avoid the DMV when it comes to taking the CDL road test. We are approved to offer the CDL road test to all our students using our own trucks and team members. If you consider that we will be both training you and testing you, how can you fail?
Lifetime Job Placement
Start your road to freedom with our lifetime job placement program. All our courses come with our free lifetime job placement program, which means we are here to help you find a job until the day you die.
We can help you find the following placement opportunities:
- Local
- Regional
- Over the Road
- Become and Owner Operator
Choose Driving Academy for Your CDL Training
Get the best CDL truck driver training at Driving Academy, serving students in and around Linden, New Jersey and across the country. Driving Academy provides students with advanced training and the knowledge and skills they need to pursue either a Class A, Class B, or Class B+P CDL training. Other benefits of Driving Academy include:
- Affordable payment plans that start at just $500 down
- State-of-the-art simulator training
- Lifetime job placement for graduates
- Flexible training schedules
- Certified third-party testing site available
- Training for students from anywhere in the United States
If you’re ready to hit the road on the path toward earning a CDL, contact us today to learn more about our CDL driver training in Florida, Indiana, New Jersey and Oregon.
