Profile For Walker

I just finished up training at the Trenton, OH location a few weeks ago. Currently OTR with a trainer. If you go to the CDL school in Wisconsin you will graduate with your CDL in hand as the instructor(From what I am told) is also the one who will be doing your DOT road test that you can take back to your home state. In Ohio you have to either schedule it in Wisconsin or go back to your home state to schedule it. My first trainer had a standard 10 speed truck for all of 8 hours into my OTR training with him before he had to put it into the shop. We got an automatic after that. My new trainer, due to complications with my other trainer, has an automatic as well. I have been told that if you test in Wisconsin though they will try and provide you with a standard to test out on. Don't hold me to it though. While I don't care much about whether I get an automatic or a standard, or what kind of truck it is. I must say....driving an automatic was not bad at all! I have no complaints yet. It was primarily beneficial in traffic and in the smokies. Millis is definitely one of the better companies. I won't lie though...after about a week or two of CDL school it started to get kind of monotonous but it was worth it. Most people I have spoken to there that started elsewhere wished they had found Millis sooner. If you are prior military your CDL schooling is only $1000 but they pay it back to you after you finish your contract with them. $1000 for CDL school? Thats not bad! When you factor in that your paying the $100 to reserve your seat in the class and $400 once you arrive. Thats only $500 that is going to be deducted from my check over time. My local CDL school is $4500+....So I got a heck of a deal in my opinion.

Greetings all! I have been wanting to make the jump for a long time into trucking but never have had a good opportunity to do so. Finally, after I got my pay check last week and looked at it I just had enough. I have spent the last 3 years working in Fire and EMS and before that I was in the Army. After working an insane amount of OT and netting less than what I made when I worked in fast food I had enough. I am finally going for my dream job. I start with Millis Transfer out of Cincinnati, OH on April 11th. I am pumped. I love my job now but I need a change in my life. My wife is pumped too. We have 1 child and 1 on the way. Millis agreed to give me up to a week off for the birth of our son this July so hopefully they meant it. Anyways, If anyone has any advice or works or has worked for millis let me know! I am excited to absorb all the information I can and above all it will be nice to meet some people prior to my arrival.