Paid CDL Training School/Division with little wait times

Waiting for what? If you’re talking about loading and unloading times.
And yes reefer is usually longest waiting around and balls early appointments


Welcome to trucking you cant escape the waiting lol

 

You might find out that the Reefers with floor loads, slip sheet and big to small wood involves a great deal of physical moving of boxes. 550 cases of beef totalling 48000 pounds for example.

Trucking has alot of sitting, but for that you have the opportunity for physical labor. Most people in the 20's and 30's have no trouble with the work, some decline physically after 40's towards 55 into disability from hard labor moving freight.

 

Shop around some more. Not knocking Prime, but there are other reefer companies with their own cdl schools.
I pulled reefers for 18 years and really liked it; otherwise wouldn't have stayed with it so long.
One new driver that posts on here went with FFE (Frozen Food Express) and is averaging $1500.00 weekly.
Make some phone calls with these companies. Keep in mind, hiring areas change, so a website may have something like, "we only hire in XYZ states" but if you ask, they may also hire in your state, but haven't updated their website.
These listed below have cdl school.
KLLM (also owns FFE) - runs 48 states
FFE (Frozen Food Express) - runs 48 states
Stevens Transport runs 48 states
Jim Palmer Trucking - runs 48 states
Wil-Trans (owned by Jim Palmer Trucking) - runs eastern half of USA.
Roehl Transport - don't know their freight lanes.
Western Dairy Transport - www.wdtmilk.com - tanker company that hauls milk.

 

As to your question about wait times; you'll be paid "detention pay" for wait times, Each company has their own policy as to how much per hour you will be paid. The reefer outfits I worked for started hourly pay for wait times after one hour of waiting. You also get "stop pay" so that covers the first hour of wait time and is usually a lot more than the detention hourly pay.
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Here's a photo of a Western Dairy Transport truck:

"Graduates of the Western Dairy Transport Driver Training Academy are among the best trained in the nation. Our innovative hands-on driver training program is one of many reasons our retention rate exceeds the industry average by more than 70%. All applicants undergo a rigorous screening process before arriving on location at one of three North American training academies for paid training sessions. WDT drivers are crucial members of our community, and we take great pride in setting high candidate entrance standards. Our academy staff are among the leading commercial driver license (CDL) trainers in the nation and are supported by the leading logistics industry safety experts. Students also receive training in customer relations and hear directly from the leadership team on WDT’s culture and guiding principles."

 

It's always better to shop around and make comparisons. I'm not knocking Prime, but Jim Palmer and others have about the same pay scale.

 

Jim Palmer is owned by Wil Trans

 

Are you hell bent on refer? If not call Titan Transfer Shelbyville Tennessee