Jim Palmer/ Wil Trans questions

If you do not have your cdl now you will have to surrender your mass class d and get an Iowa permit. Then you will get your Iowa cdl but have to retake all the tests in MASS. Be careful in doing this. I have opted to bite the bullet and go to a school here.

 

the 540 is overkill to the extreme and required if you get FAFSA and a Stafford loan from the feds.
If you have your permit you can cut it down to 4k and then only have to do 6 weeks yard work.

each time you take the cdl test (there are 6 moves you have to pass if mem serves right) it is 100 for the state trooper to evaluate you. then when you pass and go to the registry you hand them the form the trooper stamped. the trooper fee is 100 each time. you can test 6 times in a year. You test on site at NETTTS.

In regards to career day: you are doing your own career day here on this site. getting info that the recruiters will not tell you. researching places that will fit you best and not getting a sales pitch. Knowledge is power.

Career days are no more than a show and tell.

You can also look at Parker in Avon. if your credit score is over a 600 then you could get a loan from a credit union that they use. their course is 8 weekends and is 5300.

Good luck!!

 

One more thing:

if for some reason you, and I mean a general "you", wash out of the training at a company sponsored school for whatever reason you will get sent home with only a permit for a cdl in that state. You will have surrendered your MA license and will have to go back to the RMV and get it reinstated.

A friend arranged a meeting with a person who oversees commercial licensure in the state. He was emphatic about not surrendering you license for a permit. He said he deals with this on a regular basis and has seen plenty of men and women go to one of the driver mills, get sent home for the smallest thing, and then have to deal with the hassle of reinstating their license. He mentioned Swift as an egregious and repeat offender of this.

The state trooper that was in the meeting as well gave me good info on top of it. She has seen it all and does a lot of testing. She concurred with the registry persons advice.

You are paying the school to teach you to get your license and they are there to help you if you are having a difficult time with a certain maneuver.

 

I was thinking of TMC who is in Iowa. JP is either in MT or MO. Sorry