So, here goes: the dream begins...??

Don't know if you would have any interest, or how stuff works in TX, but you could use the CDL-B that you already have and drive a city bus. That's what I do now in TN. Here you top out at a lil over $20 an hour and get 40+ hrs a week. Not to mention, you would get to sleep in your own bed every night. Anyways, just a thought. Good luck on whatever you choose to do!

 

You're very welcome. Good luck!

 

You can always get your hazmat and tank endorsements with your current cdl b too. Good luck on what you decide.

 

Millis does pay while training.

 

I know this is a hard one, and it's been thrashed out here, but you really want to consider and get creative on getting your own training, especially if a 'better paying job" is the goal.

For others who just want a career change and the money isn't that important, I say "Go for it - take the company training" . . . but if I'm reading you right - the cash is important.

Sell a second car - motorbike - cash in some gold or silver - as TruckDuo said put it on a credit card - research state grants - student loans - loan from a family member - holdup a local bank - . . . .just needed to make sure you were paying attention.

Necessity is the muvva of all invention.

8 months of 2500 miles a week, the difference between 22cpm and 32cpm is $8,000 - at least twice what training is gonna cost.

 

Not about to hijack this poor mans thread - but - pattyj . . .

I used to be pretty humble and never considered myself a clever, smart, intelligent or otherwise person. Then one day, under an avalanche of stupidity, I had to come to the realization that I'm about midway, and that means half the people I meet are gonna be stupider than I. That's a hard one to swallow.

And when it comes to truck drivers . . . . when I first got here I met a girl at a bar and told her I had come here to drive trucks - she looked at me like I was the AIDS virus. Then I started meeting some drivers and figured it out.