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Hello Denise

Welcome to the Forum!!!

For help w/ your questions look in:

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*Trucking Schools

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Best of luck to you!

 

Welcome to the site. Great info here. I'm just getting into trucking myself. You need to to your reshearch. Lots of schools, lots of scams. Good luck...

 

And we are glad you're here!

 

Oregongrown, Not sure if you have heard of the Workforce Investment Act (WIA). I have gone thru my local county in Colorado. WIA is a government grant to go to school. I find out tommorow if I qualify. They will pay for me to go to Sage in Colorado. Had to go some minor hoops but it free. Hope that will help you out!

 

Good luck Oregongrown! Trucking can be rewarding. It can be a ruthless industry too. I just experienced it with a company that I recently was terminated from. I made errors on my driver's logs (I logged legally) and bent a bat wing ($575.00 damage) on a truck by turning to tightly and it led to termination. I would have been happy to work and pay for damage that I was responsible for however, this particular company finds it more profitable to terminate. They also felt a need to put on my DAC record that I am an unsafe driver. I never once endangered the public safety. Now companies don't want to touch me. So, before you get started, consider that a couple of mistakes can get you blacklisted for God knows how long. I suffered triple jeopardy; termination, denial of unemployment benefits and blacklisting.

Trucking can be rewarding too. A driver can earn a decent paycheck as opposed to $9.00 an hour hourly jobs. Consider that you are working up to 14 hours a day too when you are driving. Consider life on the road too. Truck stop restrooms, truck stop restaurants, truck stop parking lots littered with garbage and other disgusting things that I don't want to go into and many other inconviences. It's a tough life. I did it for two years before being blacklisted. I did enjoy the times that my wife was able to travel with me....so there's another reward. I got to go places and see things along the way that was also rewarding.

The best of luck to you oregongrown. Be careful and do your research.