Hello everyone.

Remember, the school is just to teach you what you need to pass the test. Them when you do get hired on at a company, the real learning begins.

 

I hope you already have researched and found the employer you want to work for and that will hire you with your background, driving & criminal record. Some employers don't hire students from every school, and some employers only hire students from schools with certain conditions. It's better to find the employer that has a job that fits you FIRST and then decide about CDL school. CDL school is just about passing the state test and nothing else.

You will learn 95% of what you need to know during the initial training period at your first employer. There is no driver shortage, there is an over-supply of inexperienced drivers. If you have speeding tickets, accidents, criminal history, or DUI you will wait a lot longer to get hired than the average newbie. NOT researching employers causes 80-90% of newbies to leave the industry very quickly.

In CDL school discourage anyone from telling stories about anything. Most stories are lies and nobody cares. You are in school to learn what the school teaches not hear or tell stories.

 

We can't read your mind, just your words. Feel free to explain what you type of trucking, schedule, pay, benefits, how often you get home, whatever details you think you want or can't tolerate at this job. It makes things go much faster than prying one word answers out of you one by one.

 

Age is not an issue. Pay depends on the area and type of trucking and how often you get home. The less you want to do it, the more it pays. The more often you are home, the less it probably pays. Trucking is not like getting lunch in a fast food restaurant which is basically the same everywhere. Trucking employers are whatever they need to be to make money wherever their customers are located and how ever much those customers pay. If you do no research you'll get low pay and poor working conditions. You can bring home $500 per week or $1500 per week, depending on about 10 different factors. Generally the less work, or the easier is the work the lower the pay. Company web sites and especially recruiters lie. Ignore them.

 

Ready-mix driving and dump truck jobs are local positions that require little to no experience.

 

Recycling and Waste in Rhode Island - Republic Services
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I've talked to a driver here where I live that drives for Republic Services. He picks up the garbage in the community where I live. He's doing very well there and has union benefits. He drives the truck and everything else is automatic; it's a one-man operation. I'll post a photo.