Custom-Designed 350-acre Training Complex

Among truck driving schools, National Training, Inc. is the ONLY one in the United States with a large enough training facility and a sufficiently long private highway to safely train students to operate 18-wheel trucks and gain their CDL. This expansive, custom-designed, 350-acre truck driver training complex is unique to us.

Our 350 Acre training complex contains many features, including:

  • 1-¼-mile, multi-lane, private highway
  • Specially designed pad to practice backing up
  • 8,000 square feet of classroom and student services space
  • Student lounge and outdoor patio area
  • Maintenance shop, warehouse and garage
  • Administrative offices
NTI 350-acre training grounds
Truck Driver Training Complex

At our training facility students receive truck driving training to earn their CDL, including the proper methods for how to:

  • Start, operate and shutdown a diesel tractor-trailer
  • Safely and effectively, drive under a wide variety of traffic, load, road, weather and geographic conditions and locations
  • Safely back a tractor-trailer in various conditions using various techniques
  • Safely couple and uncouple a tractor-trailer
  • Park and secure the vehicle
CDL Simulator Lab located in our training facility

National Training, Inc.'s CDL Simulator Lab

Our training complex includes a state-of-the-art simulator system that provides a low-risk, low pressure way to train both new and experienced drivers. With bold realistic graphics, authentic and genuine truck components, and a 3 axis motion platform to offer an immersive experience, drivers and students are receiving a total immersive training solution.  Click here for more information.

NTI Heavy Now Classroom located in our training facility

Heavy Now Classroom

Contractors and construction firms have a constant need for qualified heavy-equipment operators. Included in our training complex are classrooms and training grounds for National Training Inc.’s Heavy Now course. This course trains students on the basic information and necessary skills to safely perform routine inspections & basic maintenance, maintain and operate four types of heavy equipment. Click here for more information.

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Compared to Other Truck Driver Training Schools, National Training, Inc. Offers a Safer Learning Environment

Some schools risk their student’s confidence and safety by accessing public roads, just to gain more room to drive. Accidents usually occur from a combination of negative circumstances that can include unfamiliar surroundings and equipment, low driver experience, and the motoring public’s impatience for large semi-trucks.

Our training grounds were custom-built for truck driver training – and not modified from a parking lot – giving our students a safe and secure place to train and practice their skills without any potential for harm to the public.

Only when they are ready for real-world traffic situations do we allow our students to drive on public roads and highways, usually by the fifth day of their  training.  We believe this is the only way for students to SAFELY master learn professional-level driving skills.

We offer four times the amount of actual hands-on training and practice, compared to many competing truck driving schools. That is why our graduates are more confident of their abilities, because they have thoroughly learned professional driving skills. It also explains why truck company employers from around the country seek out our graduates to hire – because they know the high quality of training that our students receive.

Is A Career in Trucking or Heavy Equipment Right for You?

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Aerial View of our 350-acre training complex
NTI Training Grounds
CDL instructors at our training complex