Soon to be

I've been reading these forums for a few days now. I've gotten alot of good advice on here. So thank you. I was seriously a greyhound ticket away from CR Englands training school, until I started reading yalls posts, and searching a bit more online. Because of yalls help, I turned them down and found a better option.

I will be attending Oklahoma City's, Roadmasters school. It's extremely expensive but there is the reason I am going there. My tuition assitance from the national guard pays it in full. It won't do that with a companies training program. So worst case senario, I get my CDL with no job, but, Have no school loan. And while I attend I'll still have my job, so really this is a no loss chance I'm taking.

I am currently talking to TMC, and Werner, Looking for pre-hire. I know yalls warnings about werner. But, those 2 companies allow me to draw my GI-BIll for up to a year under the "apprentice" thing. Which is alot of extra money a month. IF any of you know of another company that hires rookies, and has that, Please let me know. TMC is obviously the one I am hoping for.

Swift has also excepted me to there school. Lets see if that means they will still hire me after going to an independant school. Again I have seen yalls warnings. But honestly, Not alot of great options for rookie drivers looking to get a bit of learning, experience time.

 

Alright, well a bit of an update. I just finished week one in driving school. I passed the written test at the dps station and have gotten the Class A permit. MOndey we start driving. Day one is driving this large loop in the city on I35 service road, just to get the shifting down. Tuesday we go into straightline backing.

I have filled out a few apps with the school, for the companies they work with. Swift, TMC, Werner, MLLK, and Stevens. I'm honestly leaning towards werner just because they have a pet policy for company trucks. All the others are saying I would have to lease.

 

Well day 1 of btw done. I tell you what, My clutch leg is shot. Man All day just up and down the service road, shifting up threw the gears, and back down, over and over. Took me the better part of the day to start getting a rythm to it. I look forward to the days of being able to look back at this and laugh.