I can't afford CDL school

Case CDL is probably going to be your best bet. $1600 and two days

 

Dot Foods pays $1250/wk while in training AND has a CDL school. Their location may not work, depending.

The OP hasn’t chimed in since his initial post, so it may not be all that important, afterall.

 

I believe Wilson still pays you during training

 

Aren’t they only L/P? Or, do they have company drivers?

 

When I checked a year ago they still had company drivers

 

I can confirm @Terlingua. I just got off the phone with Schneider a couple of days ago, and the only way to go get hired on with Schneider as a new driver is to pay for CDL school yourself, and they'll reimburse you. Blanca, the recruiter that I spoke with, says they don't know when the CAT program, or even the company sponsored program where they send you to a school and they pay for it. She said that both are put off until next year. She said to call back in a couple of weeks, but I ain't got a couple of weeks to wait. I need something fast. I applied to Swift, and everything was going smoothly until they denied my application because I had longer than a one year gap of unemployment back in 2013, and it was within 10 years. But I applied to PAM, sent over my medical card, long form, picture of my learner's permit, documents, and they're working with me. I went and took my pre-employment drug screen this morning. So hopefully I'll be off to training on the next thing smoking.

 

Welllllll...... with the way basic training is nowadays, the ds's are pretty much babysitters. They can't yell at them anymore, ain't no more wall to wall counseling, they got all of these stress cards, you can now have your cell phones in basic, you can smoke in basic, it is a frickin' cake walk going through basic nowadays @lual. When I went in 17 years ago, they still got up in our face, yelled at us, pt'd us till we were about ready to die, if something wasn't right when our ds would come through for a barrack inspection, he would absolutely tear apart the entire barracks. We didn't know who's was what lol. I came in right around the time where if you did something wrong, your squad leader and your platoon Sgt couldn't just take you into a room with and do some "counseling". There was a whole mess of paperwork that they had to do. But man they still put the fear of God in you, and they still had their way of getting you to learn your lesson to where they didn't have to do paperwork.

 

Yep. I highly doubt they'd be able to handle bullets whistling by.

 

Spare us.

When I was in NCO, you were the incorrigible next generation. The stress card rumor has been around before you were born. Your basic training was a cakewalk compared to a decade prior. In fact, I remember getting an entire class of recruits that were passed through training in the same era you went through and thinking to myself "how the hell did they make it through?"

 

Well, we definitely didn't have any stress cards when I was in lol. And the battalion I was in, our ds's would look at it, then look back at us, then rip it up in our face then make us pay double for trying to use it. And for the whole 9 weeks, whoever tried to use the glorious stress card that was in our generation if there ever wwas one was on the entire platoons ds's radar. The entire time. And I was the lucky one to get the platoon that had all Rangers, and a couple Airborne Rangers for ds's. Even our 1st Sgt was an Airborne Ranger. I went to Fort Jackson, and had the hardest battalion on the entire base. So our time through boot camp wasn't a cake walk to say the least lol. The only thing they didn't do was lay a hand on us. But I know they wanted to real bad with a few of them. That one way how they point at you with their hand would get so close to your face, it's amazing how they didn't touch you lol. But today's boot camp really is a cake walk compared to 20 years ago. It really astonishes me how easy they have made it, and we're sending these 20 year olds off to fight in a war when these ds's can't even yell at them or even make them the least bit scared, a little stressed out, or whatever. These recruits have so much immunity these days it's unreal. They're coming out of boot camp soft. My cousin just got of boot camp about 6 months ago, and he confirmed how stupidly easy it really is. You can even drink flavored drinks the entire time you're in boot camp. All we could have was water. In our 6th week, we could have orabge juice with our breakfast. Other times, it was water. During graduation week, we were allowed anything we wanted lol.