Profile For Ozgur D.

Hello Ozgur! First off welcome. You've come to the right place to get any answers you need about this buisness. As far as trucking schools in MA go I'm not sure which ones are good, better, or best. My father went to a school and Andover a long time ago and he liked it. I myself am at NTI in Maine and love it. So best bet would be to find some current students at the schools your thinking of and ask them. Become a stalker around lunch time and ask when they come out what they think, lol. Maybe not go that far but you get the point. As far as jobs go, i'm not sure what it's going to be like down there but i'll tell you what my instructor told us last week. A lot of companies almost have to hire with-in they're minimum experience ranges mainly for insurance purposes. Beyond that though he also told us that our career development team will have a hard time placing us because they don't know what they're doing with regards to how this business works. He told us that because the places that hire want to know they're getting "the goods" in terms of drivers they will call him directly and ask if he has anyone ready to drive. That is before they ever post anything on job boards. And he had plenty of real world examples of these placements. with local companies. I think a lot of the complaining your seeing is from students who expect to land the perfect local job right out of school. Can it happen? Sure! Will it? There's no way to tell. But you have to be open to go where the jobs are. Whether or not it's local or OTR. For me when I get my CDL I plan to try for local first, if that doesn't pan out i'll look to regional or OTR. But I prepared myself to take the best possible job for my situation. Long story short yes you can find a job without experience you may just have to be a little more flexible than you originally thought. Good luck!

PS: I hope others will add to this and correct anything I might have said wrong

Thanks Heavy C,this was helpfull. Some of the things you mentioned is what I thought it would be like and that's comforting.

Hi everyone, I have been doing a research on Truck Driving Schools In Ma but I would feel more comfortable to hear from people who had experience with them.For one school the review I read was scary and the for other one was not too bad. Any suggestions will help a lot before I pay tons of money. The other issue is that in some reviews people complain about after graduating from schools (privet ones) they can't find a job due to Otr experience requirments. Is this a common issue or it depends on the state that person lives? In MA there seems to be high demand for drivers even though it's obvious that it won't be easy without at least 6 month experience. But I think once you pass the tests and have that license there has to be a place where you can start from somewhere. I hope I am not mistaken and new grads are able to find jobs one way o another..