Company Paid Training - Guaranteed Hire?
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Yes any of the companies that offer company sponsored training hire the student upon successful graduation.
You don’t get that guarantee with private schooling. Most have job placement assistance, but that is far from a guarantee.
With the current job market going company sponsored is the safe/smart way to go.
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.
Good thing you are doing your research, Kimberly. The training company does the background stuff on you, and all you need is that CDL. So, as PJ points out, you are all but hired when you start the school. If you are told to travel to the school and stay in a hotel, pack your bags for the long term. (You will certainly get a chance to get home not long after you are hired, but just be ready for a longer time before you get home.)
Just practice and study, pass the CDL test, and you will schedule you for a trainer driver.
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.
Thank you both. Errol, you’ve mentioned in a few other posts re: work history that employers want to be sure you haven’t been in Margaritaville for the past three years. What does that mean?
I’m 55 years old and have worked one year out of the past three, because I’ve been traveling with my husband on our sailboat since 2018 and living off our savings. I worked full-time for the same employer from 2005-2018 (and held steady, multi-year long-term positions before then with the exception of going to college and law school.). Since leaving to travel on our boat I’ve had one seasonal maritime job and one other maritime job, so about 15 months of employment since 2018. I can prove that we’ve been traveling - I have the passport stamps and a long-term blog to show it. Will that work history and proof of traveling be sufficient? Thanks.
Federal reg’s require any gaps in employment the previous 10 years be explained. They want to ensure you weren’t training in terror camps overseas.
Most companies on require a notorized letter from people who can verify what you were doing. It’s not a very big hurdle.
Kimberly, I believe your paragraph resume would work.
Many people spend some slack time wasting away in "Margaritaville", looking for a lost shaker of salt, and blaming things on a woman*
* Based on the song
Thank you, PJ and Errol.
Now I have a “Margaritaville” earworm! I wouldn’t be much of a sailor if I didn’t know the song, but sometimes people think cruising on a sailboat is literally Margaritaville, so I just wanted to clarify it. 😉
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I’m still doing a deep dive on research before I commit to pursuing a trucking career. I can certainly see the benefits (and drawbacks) of going through a company to get my CDL A. With the job market the way it is now, are people guaranteed an OTR job after completing company-paid training? It seems it would benefit them to do so given that they have invested the time and money into actually getting licensed, but the web sites don’t specifically say that you WILL be hired. Thoughts? Thanks.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
OTR:
Over The Road
OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.