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Just to clarify...you did not get hired at Prime. You were offered a chance to come to orientation and prove yourself worthy of training. The entire two to three weeks of orientation and training with the permit is a jib interview. So please take that seriously.

Good luck ;)

I said pre hired. I'll be going there with my CDL so orientation is only 3 days, but I'm a respectful person I think I can make a good impression and hope my trainer and I get along if I do end up getting hired.

Thanks guys. I was worried how poor my transcript looked might affect their decision, but they were cool with it. Lot of stress off my shoulders. Looking forward to sharing the road with you all. Now to get my CDL-A and a tanker endorsement (which I'll have all my endorsements after school anyways) and I'll be off to orientation in June.

Following up on this thread;

Got pre hired by Prime. So it wasn't a big deal.

Welcome Clay. I wouldn't do anything that involves a financial commitment until you are fairly certain you will meet pre-qualifications for your potential employers.

I'd consider sending out pre-hire letters and talking to a few recruiters before making a decision to spend money.

• Article: Understanding Pre-Hire Letters: The What, Why, And How Of This Important Step
• Trucker's Wiki: "Pre-Hire Letters"
• Forum Topics Tagged "CDL Pre-Hire Letters"

You should also consider this as an option too: Paid CDL Training Programs

Thank you

Honestly, they could care less about your college history unless you're applying for an office gig. No need to bash ex felons.

I didn't intend for it to come off that way.

Forgot to mention your work history. Most places want to know what you've been up too for the last few years. You may be able to provide them with transcripts or something from school showing you weren't getting into anything you shouldn't have.

I'd be perfectly fine with sending them my transcript. Thanks.

I'm sure I misunderstand, so please clarify. 8 years in college and no degree? Surely you have a Bachelors in something right?

If you do, maybe you should be looking into the office side of the business to get going.

I don't know what problems you may face from a lack of work history, but I'm guessing most employers would be skeptical of if you were in school that long and didn't earn any degree. I hope I'm wrong and I apologize if I read this wrong.

No sir,

It was really stupid of me not to finish my bachelors in criminology as I was a semester away from it. And when I went to physics all my Gen Ed classes were finished, just was held up by pre-reqs like math classes and required physics classes to advance it so it was slow. If a company is okay with hiring ex-felons I'd figure they'd be okay with hiring a ****ty college student, but not much surprises me anymore. I have around 140 credits in total.

Hey everyone,

I've lurked here for a bit now and have a question that's really stressing me out.

I dropped out of university this month and I'm gonna start CDL school in April or May (whenever I save up enough cash). I've been at university since 2008, and switched majors in 2013 - got cold feet about going to law school so went to physics. So physics has beat the living heck out of me ever since and I'm just done with it (and school in general) and want to get my life moving and make some money.

My last W2 was in 2008. Ever since I've worked on my parents farm under the table. I've gotten lots of a valuable experience here with tractors and some other heavy equipment (a high lift). I have combination experience since I was using a pull behind bat wing mower a lot, and also a manure spreader.

I was mostly at school though so I never made enough money to file taxes. I'm worried this might make employment difficult. I was eyeballing PRIME (but going to a private school for the CDL) and I hear they can be sticklers, but on the other hand I've heard if you get people to vouch for you it shouldn't be a problem so I wanted to ask here and see what everyone thinks about the situation. I was really hoping to skip the bottom feeder companies, but if that's what I'm limited to then so be it, I guess.

Any response is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.