Possible Career Change at age 56

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    World Fuel Services Company
    9270 NE Glisan St, Portland, OR 97220
    Portland, Oregon
    Apply in person.
    New cdl school grads encouraged to apply.
    Starting pay $23.00/hr with OT and increases at 90 days, 1 year and then annually.
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    Why do you say victims? Have many drivers been taken advantage of?
     
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    What is tough about retail delivery?
     
  6. kemosabi49

    kemosabi49 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    Yes. The mega companies will train you for free but you have to sign a contract to stay with them for a year or you get to pay them for the training. Their pay is poor and you may see home or you may not. Best if you can do a private school/community college for your training. That way opens up a lot of opportunities.
     
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    Ocean Beauty Seafoods
    Portland, OR 97210
    Shift start: 10:00PM
    Shift length: 11 hours
    Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
    Click ---> Apply On Company Site
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    Some/many stores are hard to back in to and usually driver unload and put product inside store.
    Some store managers will say something is missing from the load, when in reality, they just hid it from you and want you to write it up as missing. That's my personal experience.
     
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    I’m will turn 52 in March. Hopefully come the first of the year I will be starting with a small, 75 truck, company that will train me one on one. No contract and no fee to do so. Considered a technical college at $3000 and going with a large company paid program. After almost a year of researching I hope to make my final decision on Monday. Just waiting for a final pay package that is coming Monday from the above mentioned company.

    You will find there are many ways to obtain a CDL license. Pros and cons to each one. You will have to determine what makes the most sense to you. I can tell you this, the more I researched, the more confused I became. My advice is to find a company you want to work for and go for it.
     
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    XPO Logistics
    Clackamas, OR
    Click ---> Apply On Company Site

    At XPO Logistics, we’re constantly looking for talented individuals at all levels, who can deliver the caliber of service our company requires. The Driver Sales Representative (DSR) External Driving School Scholarship Program provides a scholarship (up to $5,000) to attend an external driving school where you will work to complete courses to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License-A (CDL-A). As a DSR Student (E), you will work a limited number of hours as a dockworker each week while completing the external driving school. Upon successful completion of the external driving school program, you will be eligible to test to obtain a CDL-A with hazardous materials endorsements and doubles/triples endorsements; and upon meeting all other company requirements, you may be eligible for a Driver Sales Representative position.
     
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