No Experience

Are there any companies that will hire & train you with no experience and no CDL? Are any of these companies worth working for?
I'm currently in the Navy right now, but looking to get into the industry when I get out.

 

If you're only 20 you don't have to worry about it for another year . Things could be a whole lot different then .

 

Yeah, I still have another two years left on my contract with the Navy anyway, I'm just tryin to get as much information as I can before I get out.

 

Check out the community colleges. I went to Southeast Community College in Lincoln, NE. 10 weeks was about $850. You also have to pay for your physical, drug screen and fee for motor vehicle driving record. They did have a scholarship for Vietnam veterans that had not been used in 10 years and the department chairman was attempting to get the scholarship changed to military experience.

While driving in Iowa I saw a trailer for a community college in Cedar Rapids, Iowa that advertised getting a CDL in 30 days.

If you go with a company that trains and gives you your CDL you will have to sign a note for about $6,000 that can be worked off in 2-3 years. When they do both the CDL and training in 4 weeks they do it in automatic transmissions so that they can get you through the course faster. Most of the industry uses manual transmissions that are not fully synchronized requiring double clutching or floating.

 

Yeah, I've heard of community colleges that do. I wasn't sure of how well their programs where though. I know I saw that CR England would train you, but from everything I've seen on here, they seem like a company I would want to stay away from.

 

We have a Navy Guy in the class at the school that I am attending, The Navy is paying his way.

 

Really? I was kinda thinking about trying to get out a year early to get some kind of training. Seeing what smokyjuan said about community colleges, I might try to check some of the schools close to home. And, maybe I can get the navy to pay for it too.

 

What do you do in the Navy and where are you stationed? You don't have to tell me exactly where just need to know if it's a grayhound or a shorebase. The reason I ask is because3 sometimes you can get a head start driving on base. It all depends what you do and where you are. I know you've heard this a million times before but just so you know you make alot more where you're at now than trucking can do for along time.

 

I'm a Sonar Tech, stationed on a tin-can in San Diego.I won't get much chance for driving oppurtunities unfortunately. Alot of my family members either are in the trucking business, or they were in the trucking business. They've told me the same thing, but I'm kinda stubborn and I want to follow in my families footsteps.

 

I did the same thing but I was lifed up and stuck around for 20. I'll tell you it's much nicer when you have some pay coming in and have medical no matter what. I still drove commercially while I was active duty but I was in a rate that had alot of shore duty. Then after 11 years I transfered into the Seabees as an Equipment Operator. But still the jobs will be there if you wait and you never know you might get general duty at a shore site where you could drive. I've seen it. I've taught TM,GM, and a few other rates how to drive then they went off to haul explosives.