Why pay for truck school when some co'.s train you for free ???

Hell, with some of this thinking I could do the same and become a surgeon!!!!!!

 

This may be true today, but not 30 years ago when I started driving

 

I believe that you didn't need school back then, but how did you pass the driving test without practice?

 

Had plenty of practice, drove my uncles truck

 

I see this question wasn't answered so here is what happened.

We didn't have to take a driving test back then, At-least not in my state. We just paid the $10.00 for a chauffeurs license, then eventually when the CDL became law we were grandfathered in. I grandfathered in mid 1991. I have never taken a test . 2 million + later and still haven't taken a test.

 

That's any business, management changes,good companies become bad companies.

 

I did the same. My brother-in-law did the same when he was laid off from a teachers position. He bought the chauffeurs for $10.00 then walked in to a trucking company office and was hired without a road test. The company sent him on a several hundred mile trip and said "don't worry, by the time you get back you'll know how to drive."

 

Every time I hear the old hands on the CB talking about "THEY AINT GETTIN ENOUGH TRAININ, 1 MONTH AINT ENOUGH!" I think of stories like this lol
Good share, China

 

Just wait till reality hits you on the head like a ball peen hammer, nothin in life is free!

 

What other companies do besides Roehl. My problem is we wouldn't make the bills if I was at school not getting paid. My current work schedule prevents me from being able to do day, evening or weekend classes, so I would have to quit work first, and that would create an employment gap, which i don't want. With grants and tuition reimbursement it's not the cost of school that is my issue, it's cost of living until that first trucking paycheck comes in.