Start your career in truck driving by earning your Commercial Driver's License (CDL): either the CDL-A required for driving heavy trucks and tractor-trailers, or the CDL-B required for driving straight trucks, dump trucks, passenger buses and motor coaches.
Prepare for the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration Commercial Driver’s License Learner's Permit examination. Learn about proper use of air brakes, vehicle inspection, driver safety, transporting hazardous cargo safely, transporting passengers, combination vehicles and vehicle control testing.
Courses
Cost
AACC has partnered with All-State Career School in Baltimore to offer CDL A training. The training consists of one classroom lecture course and one driving range and highway course, which can be completed in 16 days. Testing is done on-site at All-State in Baltimore.
Courses
Total hours: 160
Cost
AACC has partnered with All-State Career School in Baltimore to offer CDL B training. The training consists of one classroom lecture course and one driving range and highway course, which can be completed in one week. These courses are approved by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Course
Total hours: 52
Cost
Upon successful completion of the courses, students earn an AACC Continuing Education Certificate and are prepared to take either the CDL Class A or CDL Class B State road test. Once you successfully complete all the course requirements of the certificate program with a passing grade or higher, submit a Student Application for a Continuing Education Certificate.
Classes are offered Monday through Friday or Saturday and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Classes form monthly online. On-the-range training is done from 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the Baltimore training facility.
Contact the program manager at 410-777-2935 or cdl@aacc.edu to review program information and registration procedures.