got an email from CRE today

If you pay for the school up front, you're free and clear the day you get your CDL in the mail.

 

heh....ya never know.

Well, what I have heard and come up against is this:
"Drop everything and come to our orientation right now!" (CRST)
"Can you get more training at the school you went to?" (Swift)
"It's been how long since you drove?" (Watkins & Shepard)
"You don't have any experience." (Everybody, including Prime and JB Hunt)
"Call us back after you drive 6 months for somebody." (UPS Express)
"You have to take a refresher course, but we don't offer one." (Werner)
"Our refresher course is fifteen hundred bucks." (CR England)
"Blah blah blah". (Schneider)

I was this close to going with US Xpress. I think all the companies are basically the same. USX want me to take a bus to orientation in Dallas, TX. Why? I live by San Francisco. I want to at least go to orientation in California. That's just me. I realize I will probably be going all over the country anyway no matter who I go with, but let me pass or fail orientation in my own state, thank you.

I am going to push for CRE. Why not. If I need a refresher course, I need a refresher course. What am I going to do, tell all these companies they are wrong? If they say I do then I guess I do. The ONLY place I have come up with that will dish me out refresher course is CR England. I was going to pay for it myself. But now I learn of this special Turkey Day deal, where it apparently will not cost me a dime. I say HOORAY! Hey, I'm easy really. Take me. Use me. Gimme some experience. I'll get picky later maybe.

 

Congratulations on the decision. Best of luck. Be careful.

 

I already have a CDL.

 

Corporal Clegg How do you like Stevens so far? Basstime54 when do you start with CRE?

 

I know that from your posts elswhere on this board ... the response was to yukons question.

 

That's pretty funny.

 

Is it possible to get your CDL permit (on your own) and train with a company?