Profile For Randy H.

The type of freight to haul depends on what you are looking for personally and what type of home life you have. to be honest most OTR jobs will eighter let you bring the truck home or in some rare instances will require you to live within a certain distance of a terminal ,but you aren't gonna be home much . regional drivers generally get more home time especially those on dedicated accounts but they generally must live close enough to park at a terminal altho there are some exceptions . as far as pay flatbed and tanker are your best paid then dedicated van . as far as your hazmat and your past contact the dmv because not all criminal convictions will stop you from getting a hazmat endorsement I'm enclosing a link that may shed some light on this subject for you . if you want to msg me directly my email is professional.70380@gmail.com http://www.cdldigest.com/cdl/hazmat_disqualifying_offenses.html

I went to quality truck driving school in Paducah Kentucky in 2003 and within 14 days had my cdl and we never had that problem ! it sounds like the school has over extended itself

Yes it all sounds sketchy. . One major emergency after another. HOWEVER, the school is highly recommended, state and industry approved, and runs the cdl training programs at several Kentucky community colleges.

Most of our equipment is better than I expected for a cdl school. Currently at the range where I attend, all trucks are 10 speeds. We have 1 freightliner cascadia, 1 volvo (which is even nicer, but can't take it off the range til they replace a drive tire since a student curbed it and put a huge bubble on the sidewall), and an old international, which amazingly they took on the road last weekend. That poor truck looks like its been through h3ll and back, and probably has lol.

Apparently the truck (another cascadia) we will test in is still at the state testing facilities, because a few others had yet to test. They are going to try to have it available to us so we can practice with it.

As I've said, this school offers the cdl training for many community colleges in the state. But, why the heck don't they have a key to the gate to get into their own range.. why are we out there waiting for almost an hour for someone to unlock it. We're getting a 160 hr certificate, but will obviously be missing a large chunk of those 160 hours. Yes, I'm concerned. I really feel like I need the hours we are supposed to have had, and they were paid for. The way they are shuttling instructors to our class, I think its a "lack of enough available instructors" emergency to be quite honest. My employer has paid this school $144,000 (in advance) to train 36 students to obtain their cdl since August 22, 2015. The first class should be testing out in the next week or so.