Company Training vs CDL School Advice Needed

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www.rprdrivingschool.com
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A Driving School Like No Other-How you ask?

• You will be paid while in training. $16.00 hr.

• RPR will cover the cost of your permit and license.

• You will graduate RPR and have a job with Bellavance that must last a minimum of 2 years.

What will you learn?
The curriculum standards are based on skills, knowledge, tasks, and duties expected of an entry-level truck driver for Bellavance Trucking. This curriculum also incorporates the recommendations of the Proposed Minimum Standards for Training Tractor-Trailer Drivers, issued by the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration Office of Motor Carriers (formerly BMCS) in 1985.

Note that curriculum standards do not address every skill, knowledge, task, duty, or ability suggested by drivers as necessary for entry-level drivers to possess and use. RPR Driving School provides a foundation for entry-level truck drivers, and it is up to each and every school attendee to use the skills and information provided to self-teach and master the occupation of a professional truck driver.

• Classroom hours to prepare you for the permit test.
• Pre-trip and post-trip inspection.
• Map reading, trip planning, and compliance with DOT laws.
• How to identify preventive maintenance problems.

What sets us apart?

• We are providing the financing and job placement with Bellavance Trucking.
• You will be working for a stable 60-year family-run company.
• You are not a number at Bellavance, you are a member of our trucking family.

 

2 VERY important questions....
What is the COST?
What is the INTEREST RATE?

 

I paid for my own training. $4700 plus the cost of the tests, medical etc. Were I to do it over, I would have had the company pay it. I basically threw that $$ away. YES, I trained and tested on a manual. BIG DEAL. I don't plan on working at a company where I have to drive a manual and even so, there are plenty out there that are Automatic only.

Save you cash, get paid training do your year. I recommend PRIME. Good consistent loads if you go REFER as food must be delivered or society collapses. Good $$. $900 a week training currently.

 

@sventvkg
This is good advice.
UNFORTUNATELY, there are MANY people who apply at Prime and flat out get turned down. Prime, as mentioned on the forum, in the past, is EXCEPTIONALLY SELECTIVE on who they hire.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

The absolute sheer driving force of our national economy - without truck drivers, our entire national economy would come to an absolute standstill - if not outright be dead.

Over the mountains, through the woods, into the valleys, coast to coast, from sea to shining sea - truck drivers can and do go anywhere and everywhere, every day, every night, all year round.

 

@sventvkg
What you are saying is true, no doubt about it.
However, as mentioned on the forum, in the past, there are drivers who will find a really good company to drive for, that ONLY has manual transmissions, but cannot get hired on with that company, due to having the "automatic transmission only" restriction on their CDL's.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

The absolute sheer driving force of our national economy - without truck drivers, our entire national economy would come to an absolute standstill - if not outright be dead.

Over the mountains, through the woods, into the valleys, coast to coast, from sea to shining sea - truck drivers can and do go anywhere and everywhere, every day, every night, all year round.

 

@sventvkg
Many drivers, and non-drivers alike, do see where you are coming from.
On the other hand, there are MANY novice drivers who WISHED that they had paid for their own training, to enable them to move about to another company, due to situations and circumstances being out of whack, to say the least.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

The absolute sheer driving force of our national economy - without truck drivers, our entire national economy would come to an absolute standstill - if not outright be dead.

Over the mountains, through the woods, into the valleys, coast to coast, from sea to shining sea - truck drivers can and do go anywhere and everywhere, every day, every night, all year round.