Still Wanting To Get Into Trucking!!!!! UGH!!!
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Morning Tiffany - Have you browsed through this website yet? It wouldn't take you long to find this:
You'll have to go through each company and find out how much they pay during training. Most reimburse to some degree for the couple days of orientation before you're hired and start your training / schooling. Prime Inc. probably pays the highest. Crete / Shaffer has a good training pay too at $500.00 weekly.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Company-sponsored Training:
A Company-Sponsored Training Program is a school that is owned and operated by a trucking company.
The schooling often requires little or no money up front. Instead of paying up-front tuition you will sign an agreement to work for the company for a specified amount of time after graduation, usually around a year, at a slightly lower rate of pay in order to pay for the training.
If you choose to quit working for the company before your year is up, they will normally require you to pay back a prorated amount of money for the schooling. The amount you pay back will be comparable to what you would have paid if you went to an independently owned school.
Company-sponsored training can be an excellent way to get your career underway if you can't afford the tuition up front for private schooling.
Knight pays sooner than most at $400 a week.
What kind of walls are you running into? That might help us steer you in the right direction.
Bill is right. The company-sponsored programs he gave you a link to are the ones that will put you through school with little or no money up front and then hire you upon completion. I believe Knight Transportation is the only one that actually pays you during the classroom and on-site training phases. The rest begin paying you when you go on the road with a trainer.
The more details you can give us about your situation the more specific our suggestions will be.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Tiffany, I didn't mean to mislead. Crete/Shaffer is a company I'm probably going to go with, but they do not have company paid schooling. Prime Inc. does.
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I am STILL wanting to get into trucking but I am still running into walls!!!!!!!!!! Ok....does anyone know of a company that pays you to go to SCHOOL AND TRAINING????