Signed up for cdl school. What's the best company to get on with? It looks like you all don't like prime or stevens. Is Schneider good?
Which company would you recommend for a new driver?
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To get your training, it doesn’t matter… stay for the entire year with whoever you choose then, you have so many options your head will spin..
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Go with scheider TANKER get your training over and move on to the world of riches
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I’ve been driving almost 19 years now… started with Werner… did my training with them, they reimbursed my schooling tuition over the course of the first year…. I stayed with them 6 years, was with my next company: 10….. until it went belly up due to mismanagement… can’t say I regret any of my trucking career… just remember; the first 6 months really sucks! Hang in there and just get thru it… then, your career can be yours to enjoy
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Currently, you don’t have to go to any of the bottom feeder training outfits. Plenty of of good companies will hire you right of school.
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In a nutshell my pros for working for Swift:
1. If I am uncomfortable with weather and road conditions, I park it and Swift is fine with that. Being a desert rat, I have little winter driving experience. I do have a bit more now because I've been driving the last 2 winters. But, I'm still rather timid about weather and road conditions. It means a great deal to me that no one has ever tried to coerce me to drive when I didn't feel like I should.
2. Swift has terminals in most of the bigger cities where finding parking can be a real pain. Denver, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, SoCal, Imhave no problems getting a place to safely park whatever time of the day or night. I just huff it to one of our terminals. Easy Peasy! (FYI, I'm a Western Region driver so most of my experience is isolated to the West Coast area)
3. I get a problem with my truck, or a trailer flat, or whatever. I make 1 phone call and they figure out the rest. Either where I need to go to get fixed up, or whatever help I need is sent to me. 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. 1 phone call. I don't have to wrestle with figuring out where to get help and getting it arranged. I really like that!
Those are general reasons, specific to me:
1. I've been treated well, get along well with the folks I have to deal, with and to the best of my knowledge, no one at Swift has lied to me.
2. They run me how I want to run. As mentioned my priorities and goals are somewhat unique to my specific situation. Swift has done a really good job of accommodating me in that respect.
3. They have let me stay in the same truck. I get attached to such things and Swift has been great at allowing me to stay seated in the same truck. I had a 2017 Freightliner as my very 1st truck. But, I wanted a Volvo from the start. About a month after I started it had a hiccup and I was able to reseat into my Volvo. It's been almost 2 years now. Sometime within the next year, I'll have to switch trucks because the one I'm in will be cycled out of their inventory. But, I've appreciated being able to stay in the same truck like this.
As with everything YMMV. I hope you find a company that works well for you and are happy with it all!Val_Caldera, John Joel Glanton, Gearjammin' Penguin and 2 others Thank this. -
If the school is 200 hours, then even more to choose from.
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As for the loan to pay for school, states have programs for free cdl school to help the residents start a new, better paying career.
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