A lot of the schools can finance your training, even with not so great credit. You probably will be paying $150 or more per month for the payments, but if you don't have much else in the way of bills, that shouldn't be too much of a problem. It will also help you build/rebuild your credit.

There are companies out there that will hire someone with 3 months or so of experience. My hubby did his training and first three months with Werner, and then moved to Celadon. Good pay, good miles, killer vacation package (every 30,000 miles you get a week off paid at $1,000 - first 30k you only get the $1k not the week off.).

Back in 1999 I took my training with Swift and then ended up going local for several months. Just remember, you can ask for a new trainer if you have a major problem like I did with mine. I'm female, and he didn't think us girls should be driving truck. I dealt with that attitude for 4 weeks, and finally had to ask for a new one. I gave him a chance to change his attitude as I got my wheels under me, but he didn't. My second one was great. My hubby got lucky with his trainer at Werner. He was a gem, and my hubby did the whole 6 weeks instead of breaking it up.

Good luck with it, and learn as much as you can. You will always be learning something new!

where in Florida are u located Dutch? south of I-4 (orlando area) makes it tough to get home for OTR driving, sometimes 14 plus days out on the road.

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I can attest to that one. I lived in Bradenton for awhile (just south of Tampa), and it was tricky for me to get home too.

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