Truck driving schools are like slot machines for companies (SCAM!)

Rerun8963 · Mar 19, 2011

wicked said: ↑

Well, you shouldnt have to sign a contract? Why?

Are there other ways to start out other than a contract?
Why dont you do that? Instead saying a contract is a scam.

Your blood pressure is too high?
Do you take medication for it? I do, and it brings it right down to perfect!

You are saying it is a scam because you CAN'T sign a contract?

Beth
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all the while he does not sign a contract or get a student loan, others ARE (or did) and now earning a weekly paycheck..

this o/p has only "just joined"...could be a fly by just to stir things up a bit...

hey, if he REALLY wanted to get into driving for 2YEARS AGO, he would have done it..

i feel no pains or sympathy for him...

he's basically in my opinion, LAZY.......

or just here to start crap with everyone....

nuff said....

Hoobilly · Mar 19, 2011

Sorry not sure if that reply went through.

My blood pressure is to high, however, I can pass a CDL physical. My blood pressure is 150/whatever. CR ENGLAND wants 140/whatever.

I

wicked · Mar 19, 2011

Hoobilly said: ↑

Sorry not sure if that reply went through.

My blood pressure is to high, however, I can pass a CDL physical. My blood pressure is 150/whatever. CR ENGLAND wants 140/whatever.

I
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They make medication for blood pressure.
Mine was extremely high, scary high, i woke up with headaches.
I went to the VA clinic and got the bejebus scared out of me.
I take something called lisinopril, it has lowered my blood pressure to the low/normal range and I have not woke up with a headache in months.
Please get some medicine.

Beth

bikegoon · Mar 19, 2011

Hoobilly said: ↑

Sorry not sure if that reply went through.

My blood pressure is to high, however, I can pass a CDL physical. My blood pressure is 150/whatever. CR ENGLAND wants 140/whatever.

I
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Then fix it.

blackw900 · Mar 19, 2011

Hoobilly said: ↑

Sorry not sure if that reply went through.

My blood pressure is to high, however, I can pass a CDL physical. My blood pressure is 150/whatever. CR ENGLAND wants 140/whatever.
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With 150 over whatever as you so eloquently put it, What kind of CDL physical are you passing? Seriously if your blood pressure means so little to you that you can't even remember the numbers you need to start using your brain for something other than holding your ears apart!

What are you gonna get? Maybe a 3 month card?

Nobody will touch you with that....Combined with the crappy attitude, You lose!

fancypants · Mar 19, 2011

Hoobilly said: ↑

I'm sure a lot of people will disagree with me on this but I don't care, this just how I see it. Truck driving schools are like slot machines for trucking company's. Those company's make a lot of money by predatory lending (financing) and desperate people who just want to earn a descent living.

I'm wanabe and I've trying to become a trucker for about 2 years now trying to do it on my own, and it just can't be done. The local trucking school (truck drivers institute) around me wants 5,000 up front to train me and 7,500 # 18% if I finance it. A person should not have to go into debt if they want to work and earn living. People shouldn't have to forced to work for a company an entire year to pay for the high costs of school. Maybe if the school wasn't so expensive people wouldn't have to make such a big commitment.

I understand people need to make their own way in this country, but, you can't exploit people by make people pay for their right to work. Its a constitutional right to work (the right to pursuit of happiness).

I know where the real problem is. Insurance company's don't want to cover the liability for a new driver and so company's can't take a chance on people. However, you can't blame insurance company's because most trucking company's insure themselves.

Maybe the government needs to bring back some of the older regulations and limit the amount of CDL's a company can have to change the industry for the better and safer roads. Then company executives say there is a big demand for new drivers don't have enough drivers. If company's really want drivers, then they start paying to train them, instead of demanding ,severyone have experience instead of taking a chance on someone.

I'm going to keep trying to find a better way of getting started, but until then I'm not going to be another Jackpot and give in to their system.
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I learned from 2 diff. o/o,s Took 2 years. Got my LIC from STIDHAM TRUCKING. Not a DMV. Thoese days are gone.Now your gonna pay . If you wanna run the roads with me an millions like me shut up. Pay your dues an maybe if your good enought someone will give you a start.Work is not a right.You got to earn what you get. It will not be handed to you.Get over yourself.

Hoobilly · Mar 19, 2011

So far I've had 19 reply's with no real answers on how I can get my CDL on my own. I can see why the trucking industry is the way that it is.

Don't insult me. I don't need people lecturing me on work ethics. That's not going to help me.

I apolgize to the admins of this forums for my tone, however I'm not going to be disrespected and not respond. If you were to ban me that would be ok I just ask that you leave my original post up about trucking schools being a scam.

My reasoning is simple. Why spend 7,500 for school when I can buy a truck for a little more and just learn on my own using my own insurance. Just doesn't make sense to me. There needs to be a better way.

Lilbit · Mar 19, 2011

If you have missed the answer, there is no way to get your CDL without going to school or through a company.

blackw900 · Mar 19, 2011

The answer is right there in front of you.....You're apparently not capable of seeing it. Nobody's "disrespecting" you, You just don't like the answers that you're getting and have chosen to see it as "disrespect".
Your life is gonna continue to be hard for you as long as you look at "reality" as being "disrespect".

Allow Me. · Mar 19, 2011

Trucking schools aren't scams. They provide a service for a fee. And the demand for this service is very high. I went to bartending school, broadcasting school and truck school. They all cost $$. My nephew just finished golf school, and his friend just finished culinary school. They have yet to find work, but they aren't looking either. They think a job will fall from the heavens into their lap. You can go to a 3 day school to get your CDL, (just driving, skills). About a grand maybe. You can self learn logging etc. Then buy a truck, 10-15 grand, get your authority, and find some loads. But all this takes perserverance and it will be work. Hell, you buy the truck and I'll teach you how to drive it ! So, you ready to do this ? In fact, I'll be in So. Bend on June 15th picking up a motor home from the factory and driving to Az.

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