Learners Permit

I understand that I must take a CDL Learners Permit test. Is there a study guide for that test? I do want to go in prepared and start off on a good note. Thanks in advance.

Ken, go to the CDL Manuals page and find the one for your state, then study for the general knowledge test (you should be able to pick up a printed copy from the local department of licensing, as well). It should say in there what sections to study for the permit (I'm presuming its the same in each state).

Ken, we have an amazing study program to get your learners permit. This is the highest quality, most comprehensive online CDL training program ever created. As if that wasn't awesome enough, it also happens to be unconditionally free for everyone to use.

Our training program has a ton of incredible features, and it's really user friendly. It will prepare you for all of your CDL written exams, including all of the endorsements. It includes the entire CDL manual, plus a few sections we added ourselves.

The way the High Road Training Program is designed, it will track your score on every question, every page, throughout the program including the review questions you'll see from previous pages. If you get a certain question wrong a certain percentage of the time or your overall score falls below 85%, you'll be halted. What that means is you won't be able to continue on to new materials until you show an improvement in the areas you're struggling with. So you'll be given review questions in sets of 8 until you score well enough to lift the halt and continue on to new materials.

So the more careful you are about looking up the answers and getting every question right, the fewer times you'll be halted, and the faster you'll get through the program.

Now the nice thing is you can always look up the answer to every question quickly without leaving the page. If the question is from that page, you can scroll up and find the answer. If the question is a review question from a previous page, you'll see a button that says "Click here to look up the answer" and when you do, the content that contains the answer will appear. So it's always very fast and easy to look up the answers and get the questions correct.

By structuring the program this way it gives you a nice amount of repetition to help memorize the answers without allowing you to guess your way through or even worse - get a lot of answers wrong so you're reinforcing the wrong information.

The system is highly effective. There are even some truck driving schools that use it in their classroom straight off our website. It's really that good.

To fully be prepared for school and for your learners permit test I recommend you do these sections:

Rules & Regulations

Driving Safely

Transporting Cargo Safely

Air Brakes

Combination Vehicles

Pre-trip Inspection

Driving Exam

We also recommend you get your endorsements now. Simply because they never expire and since you have the time right now to study them. When you get on the road it'll be much harder to study for them.

Passenger Endorsement:

Transporting Passengers

Doubles & Triples Endorsement:

Doubles And Triples

Tankers Endorsement:

Tankers

Hazmat Endorsement:

Hazardous Materials

And lastly, there is the Logbook and Weight & Balance sections. These are critical and they are used everyday by truck drivers. These will teach you about logbooks and how to manage them. It will also teach you how to balance a loaded trailer to make it legal for transport. Very important stuff.

Here is the link

The High Road CDL Training Program

You will also want to read everything on this link.

Guide to becoming a truck driver

I highly recommend Brett Aquila's Book. It will give you an inside look on how life is out there!