Premier Truck Driving or Truck Driver Academy

Turns out its 120 hrs

 

I have not ... graduated the school and testing at my local DMV next week

 

Thank you for the wishes !

Premier did a great job with schooling so hopefully the test should be a breeze.

I will research the reefer gigs out there for sure once my license is in hand

 

Passed!

I now hold my CDL A with all endorsements aside from hazmat.
I will get that as well just need to do background check.

As my school was affiliated with CR England, CRE offered me to join their mentee/training program to go OTR with a trainer for 2-3 weeks to get some real world experience and then drive solo reefer OTR for them once the training period is over.

Allot of posts here say that CR England is no the best though so I am not sure yet if I will go with them.

 

I know it may be different as an employee but as my school and CR England basically share the same yard and trucks, over the past month or so I have built a good rapport with everyone working there and I have not seen anything bad about CRE.

I was also deciding between reefer or tanker or flatbed.
CRE primarily does reefer
Flatbed I know would be the most physical with strapping and tarping.
I also hear that tankers in the Texas oil fields make good money, but I would probably go to another company maybe Schneider for tanker training as CRE does not do much tanker.

Any opinions on those 3 ? What is paying the most in todays market, or best suited for someone with my plans to stay out and stack pay.
To remind you I am 50 years old, introverted, I ran my own IT business for approx 20 years and got burnt out on that so sold it and decided to change career paths. I have always loved the road life travelled across the USA several times on motorcyle and in an RV so figured trucking would be a good fit for me. I do not drink or smoke, not married and do not have kids. I sold my house so do not own any property atm so home time is not something I care about, honestly I would rather stay out and just live on the truck with no bills as long as possible and stack that pay check.