Best Private Trucking School In Dallas Area

I am wanting to find the best private trucking school in the Dallas area. I have just been laid off from the corporate world and am looking to go through trucking school.

Hello Carla, and welcome to the forum!

Hey, I'm gonna give you a few links to check out for some information that should help you in your research into getting started in this new career, but first let me just give you a little heads up about trucking schools. I think for the most part they are equal, and what I mean by that is that they are not really what most people think of when they think of going to school for a career. Rather, they are a means to an end, and that end is the obtaining of a Commercial Drivers License. You really won't learn to be a successful truck driver at a truck driving school, in fact you will be nearly complete with your first rookie year as a truck driver before you begin to act and conduct yourself like a professional driver. It just takes a good amount of time to get where you are proficient at this stuff. What happens after truck driving school is that once you get a job you will be paired up with a trainer who will then try to scratch the surface of this career with you just a little deeper. Trucking schools will help you get licensed and that is just about it. From there you will go with a trainer for about four or five weeks, and then you will start as a solo driver, but believe me you will still be learning tons of stuff everyday, and most of it will be through trial and error! There is a steep learning curve to this career at the beginning and most of that is absorbed during your first year of gainful employment.

Check out these following resources, and please keep questioning us - we are glad you're here and are more than willing to help if we can!

• Truck Driver's Career Guide
• Brett's Book: The Raw Truth About Trucking (free online version)
• High Road Training Program

That last one is our training program for your written exams at the state licensing office (DMV) - it is an awesome program ans it is absolutely free to use. Thousands of people have found it much easier to retain the vast amounts of information needed for those exams by using this program.

Here's some other links for some information on how to go about choosing a school...

• Article Category: Choosing A Truck Driving School
• Trucker's Career Guide: Choosing A Truck Driving School
• Forum Topics Tagged "Choosing A Truck Driving School"

Check out Stevens Transport. If you can ignore some of the clowns they are a good training company/school. of course you have to drive for them.

Thanks Old School - I am already reading Bretts Book and using the tools here on Trucking Truth. Just thought I would put it out there for the best driving school before I finished his book. I will utilize the the links you provided also. Something is just telling me that driving is where I should be and it is not just now that it has crossed my mind. I will keep you updated on my journey.