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You can get a CDL through Swift Transportation's Driving Academy, at the following terminal location:

Fontana, CA | CDL Training Partner School

I think you would need to work/drive at Swift FOR AT LEAST ONE YEAR -- to pay back your tuition costs, without anything else out-of-pocket.


And here's a Swift job posting (from the same terminal) that you might qualify/get hired for, after obtaining your CDL thru the Swift Academy:

Top 25% of Reefer OTR drivers at the Fontana terminal average $1900 weekly. Drivers can earn trip pay based on a calculation of dispatched miles that ranges from $.46 to $.61 cpm depending on route and experience. Weekly paychecks.

-- L

 

Here's more:

Top 25% of OTR drivers at the Otay Mesa terminal average $1800 weekly. Drivers can earn trip pay based on a calculation of dispatched miles that ranges from $.43 to $.58 cpm depending on route and experience. Home monthly.

and/or:

$1,100 Average Weekly Pay. Drivers can earn trip pay based on a calculation of dispatched miles that ranges from $.43 to $.58 cpm depending on route and experience. Weekly paychecks.

Hope springs eternal....

-- L

 

Despite all of the Swift jokes & memes (& yes, some of them are quite amusing )....Swift does have some very competent drivers & instructors, who have made careers there.

With Swift -- expect to be out on trainer's truck for at least 3 weeks.

Anyway....it's probably not a bad idea to investigate the above posted links to some degree.

You might be surprised at what you find out...

-- L

 

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Note also....Swift has another terminal location here....that is almost in your backyard:

Swift Transportation Otay Mesa, CA Terminal

-- L

 

Since you still need a cdl, I'd start applying with the mega's.
Swift
CRST
CR England
Stevens Transport
Ashley Distribution Services, Missoula, MT
Jones Bros. Trucking, Missoula, MT
Prime Inc., 3720 W 800 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84104
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Robertson's Ready Mix used to train for acquiring a cdl. Call and ask it they still do that.
Here's a real old thread about it.
Robertson's paid training | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum

 

Ran the West coast and kinda focused on Hazmat as an Owner op. I hauled it because the rates were half again to pushing double of standard freight.

Most of the stuff I hauled was pesticides and farm chemicals stuff, fiberglass resin in drums, stuff to wash vegetables coming out of the fields, Stuff to wash cows and clean the milking machines, Super sacks of beach sand from oil spill cleanup, and empty hazmat totes hauled to recycle places.

Also some "explosives" stuff like Fireworks, bullets, and the powder part of Nitrate explosives.

As long as you dont get in a fiery crash, most of it was not overly hazardous. The quantity/weight of it pushed it into the catagory. If you put enough conference room phones in a trailer they become hazmat because of the batteries inside them.

Sketchiest I pulled was a bunch of totes of very thick ultra pure Sulfuric Acid, stuff sloshed funny. Ran through a major metro area during evening commute and was constantly cut off by cars.

 

There is that.
Freight is bad right now, but we can always hope it will get better sooner than later.

 

Does Wilson Logistics still train new drivers?