The whole CDL classroom.
Free, one lesson a day.
Fifty two weeks, seven videos a week, taught in order from “what even is a Class A” through to surviving your first year solo. Every lesson is built on the regulation it comes from, and the regulation is named so you can go read it yourself.
The course is written and in production. Nothing has been published yet, so the syllabus below is the plan, not a catalogue of finished videos.
What is ready todayWhere are you standing
Three levels, and each one is a real milestone
Not beginner, intermediate and advanced. Nobody knows whether they are an intermediate truck driver. Everybody knows whether they have their permit yet.
- Level 1
Permit
Weeks 1 to 13
“I want my CLP”
Pass the written knowledge tests and walk out with a permit.
What this level covers - Level 2
Skills Test
Weeks 14 to 32
“I have my permit and the pre-trip is killing me”
Pass the pre-trip, the backing pad and the road test.
What this level covers - Level 3
Solo
Weeks 33 to 52
“I got hired, now what”
Survive year one: the road, the regs, endorsements, the job.
What this level covers
The week
Five lessons, then the two nobody else makes
Monday to Friday is one subject taken apart in order. Each of those videos teaches the legal minimum first, names it as the minimum, and then keeps going, because the minimum is what a test needs and not what a driver needs.
Saturday and Sunday are the reason to stay subscribed once you have your licence. Technique that only comes from doing the job, and real cases with what they actually cost.
Mon
Lesson 1
The subject, from zero
Tue
Lesson 2
The next layer down
Wed
Lesson 3
Where it gets specific
Thu
Lesson 4
The parts that catch people
Fri
Lesson 5
Putting the week together
Sat
Tips from the seat
Technique, not theory
Sun
Case law and war stories
What it cost when it went wrong
Why bother when YouTube is full of CDL videos
Because most of them stop where the test stops
The floor is labelled, then left behind
Entry level driver training has a legally required syllabus. Every weekday lesson covers it and says out loud that it is the floor. Then it explains the mechanism, the edge cases and the failure modes, which is the part a school has no hours for.
Every claim names its source
When a lesson tells you a rule, it tells you which rule. Part, section, and where to read it. Beginners are never shown where regulations live, so they spend a career taking somebody’s word for it.
All fifty states, not just the federal layer
Weights, lengths, permits, chain laws and over-dimension rules change the moment you cross a line, and almost every answer online dead ends at "call your DMV". An entire week is built on the state by state differences.
Plain English before the jargon
A term gets explained before it gets used, and spelling out an acronym is not an explanation. Then it gets said a second way, in the words you would use talking to a friend.
Written for someone who has never sat in a truck
Week 1 assumes nothing at all. Week 52 is the stuff drivers argue about. And every video stands on its own, because search is going to drop you into week 37 sooner or later.
It stays current on purpose
Regulations move. When one changes, the lesson built on it gets remade rather than left up with a comment underneath, so what is on the channel is what the rule says now.
The syllabus is public
All 52 weeks, before you watch a minute of it
Every week, what it covers, which regulation it is built on, and 340 lesson titles already written. Read it and decide for yourself whether this is worth a year.
- Week 1Permit
What a CDL actually is: A/B/C, GVWR/GCWR math, what each lets you drive
- Week 8Permit
Air brakes 1: how compressed air stops 80,000 lb, the physics
- Week 18Skills Test
State weight and dimension differences: what changes when you cross a line
- Week 36Solo
Turning, off-tracking, lane changes and interstate entry/exit
Who is teaching this
A driver who has been doing it since 1996
Flatbed and lumber first, then triple trailer freight from 1999 and most of the years since. Dock supervisor, dispatcher, fuel hauler, and a driver trainer who has taken a lot of people from nothing to a licence.
He has also seen the other side of it. Crashes, spills, life flights, people killed. That is where the one non negotiable in this course comes from: respect the risk, and never lose focus.
More about the course and who makes itAnd where it stops
One career cannot speak for every kind of trucking. Advice outside his own lane, on reefer, oversize, tanker or running your own authority, comes from sourced material and from other drivers, and it is labelled that way rather than dressed up as personal experience.
This is classroom instruction only. There is no behind the wheel training here, and Trucking Tutor is not a registered training provider.
When it starts
Get told when week 1 goes up
One email when the first lessons publish, and nothing else. No newsletter, no drip sequence, no selling your address to a truck driving school.
The playlists, already up
- Permit test, weeks 1 to 13
- Skills test, weeks 14 to 32
- Driving solo, weeks 33 to 52
- Beyond the required minimum
- Tips and tricks
- Case law
They are live and empty. Subscribing to one now means the lessons land in order when they publish.