CDL Training

The answer is private schools and community colleges! Because you can always switch companies anytime unlike going to a company sponsored school where your a slave to the company for a certain amount of time. Make sure you do your due dilligence on any school you decide to go to! good luck! If you cannot afford school then check out TDDS in lake milton, OH they offer housing and great financial aid!

 

First tech schools are likely to be cheaper and easier to qualify for financial aid.

Private schools such as Roadmaster, Sage, etc are sometimes more expensive and harder to find financial aid for.

The benefit of the two is that you are not indentured to a company like you would be with sponsered training where you agree to work for the company for set period of time,usually 6mo. to 1yr.

Some companys will reimburse you over time for monies spent on private schools. With some companys the student to instructor ratio is higher than that of a private school.

Either way you go, private, tech, or company sponsered, they teach you just enough to pass the CDL test. You won't learn to drive until you sign with a company and go out with a trainer.

 

Job hopping before you have a year or two of experience is a good way to kill your driving career - so...

If you're going to be at one carrier for that length of time, retiring the tuition from company-sponsored training isn't that big of a deal. That being said, not everyone qualifies for government-sponsored freebies - you might want to ask the Tea Party about future availability!

So, given the choice of spending $4000 - $6000 in tuition to attend a driving school - private or a community college, company-sponsored training starts looking a lot better. Some carriers will completely forgive the tuition if you drive a certain length of time for them. So... do the research, find out exactly what the terms are, and especially find out what happens if you bail early on one of these deals.

 

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