What Are The Things That I Should Be Expecting From My Truck Driving Schools in Houston?

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    Okay, so you’ve decided that you wanted to become a professional truck driver, and you know that the first step to achieving this is obtaining your Commercial Driver’s License (or CDL) by training in Truck Driving Schools in Houston. Driving a huge truck weighing over 26, 0001 pounds is no easy task, so I understand if you’re a bit apprehensive about the profession. But that is the main reason why you must go through CDL Training in the first place. However, some of you may have unrealistic expectations about the school, so let us set some things straight first.

    First off: Truck Driving Schools in Houston will teach you how to operate a truck, not how to live life on the road. Most truck driving courses only range from two to six weeks long, and that would depend on how often you meet for class. Four weeks is the norm, though. As expected, the two week courses are tougher, since you meet almost every day and they expect you to digest the stuff that they teach you faster. Knowing this, you simply cannot expect that a four week course will be able to sum up all the experience that a two year old career in commercial truck driving can give you. That, you have to learn on your own.  

    What you will learn in school, though, are not just the basics of operating a truck. Commercial truck driving is not just about driving long distances from Point A to Point B, so Truck Driving Schools in Houston don’t only teach you proper shifting and backing- up; they’ll also teach you how to read maps, to navigate, to correctly fill out log books, and of course how to get permits. Some schools also teach their students Federal trucking regulations, which you must learn by heart, as you couldn’t afford to be leafing through a handbook each and every time you encounter a border.  

    Another misconception common to aspiring commercial truck drivers (which some CDL schools help spread) is that a jobs are so easy to get by after passing your CDL exam. Wrong. Though it is true that there is a steady demand for commercial truck drivers almost everywhere, trucking companies don’t just hire any newbie upfront. Most of these companies are very stringent when it comes to hiring their drivers. Anybody applying for a commercial truck driver will be asked about their work history as far as ten years back. Applicants will be asked as to their circumstances during periods of unemployment, lest they take in someone who was previously convicted unwittingly. They’ll also want to know about your driving record, and any DUIs, or felonies and an applicant is already struck out. So it’s best that before even enrolling in Truck Driving Schools in Houston, ask your preferred company to assess you if you’re even hirable in the first place, so as not to waste anyone’s time and money.  

    If despite reading all the things said here, you still want to be a commercial driver and enroll in one of the several Truck Driving School Houston, I don’t really blame you. Despite being a difficult profession that entails a lot of patience and self-discipline, being a commercial truck driver has its perks too. One of that is that they earn relatively well in today’s economy (as of 2013, the average truck driver earns an approximate $ 34,000 a year, and that’s a conservative estimate). Another advantage is that their profession is one of the most stable ones for blue collar jobs- for as long as there are goods to be moved from one place to another, there will always be a need for truck drivers. 

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