Which School???

I came from Alaska to Indiana to visit my sister, while here my darling husband served me with Divorce papers, seems he had someone on the side and had the perfect opportunity to dispose of his wife and 27 year marriage. All accounts were emptied leaving me stranded in Indiana with no way home.

I now need to start a new chapter in my life, and am set to pursue driving. This is my third attempt, each time my wonderful husband has shot the idea down. Well no more, I going ahead with my wants, and that's to drive trucks and travel.

Since I was left destitute, I needed to find a school that would train with no money up front. Quick internet search and found C.R. England. Seemed like a perfect match, they had a school at Burns Harbor, Indiana, they would provide transportation to the school and they also had a place to stay while in school. I would be done in as little as 2 weeks, what more could I ask for..... Then I did some checking, first a search for unhappy people, found pages and pages of them, then a search for happy C.R. England graduates, nothing found, anything good, nothing found, anything ok, again nothing found. So I started really reading the forums and they sscared the crap out of me, I ran far and fast from C.R. England. Also they taught on Automatic's.

Next Search brought up Drivers Solutions, filled out the application and of course I was accepted, no questions asked. There was a school even closer to where I was, they required no money up front, was guaranteed a job in just a few short weeks. Only thing I saw wrong was that I would be only getting 17.5 cents/per mile and that I would have to pay back the loan thay were giving me at a rate of $35.00 per week. The math didn't add up, but being new to the game I figured I must be doing the math wrong. Drivers Solution sent me a link to a wonderful web site and I got started agreeing to everything they required. Came to DOT requirements and had to mail my recruiter with a quick question. My question was, what is DOT requirements if you have sleep apnea. My nice link to Driver Solutions web site was shut down so fast it made my head spin.

Ok fine, time for Plan B

I found two schools in Indianapolis that found trucking companies offer pre-hire options as well as truck driving school tuition reimbursement. I also learned the difference between the two types of schools, contract tuition and none contract tuition.

It seems my choices are currently Roadmaster Driving School and TDI Truck Driver Institute. Any suggestions on schools, both are the same length of time. Both have about the same trucks, and both gave me applications to fill out to obtain pre-hires.

Any advice will be appreciated.

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I'm not hearing that the Apnea is going to be a problem, I've had a current sleep study and because I've been using the c-pap for so many years lots of documentation that it is indeed being used. I have a current compliance report and am at 96.8% compliance, only day I missed using the blasted machine was the day I had a sleep study.

 

I'm sure I'm ready to move forward, sure don't want to go backward!!!

Even if I just get training and no company will take me I can still head back to Alaska and drive backfill in a Goldmine, lots of jobs once I have my CDL. I'm moving forward. First choice is Truck driving, 2nd choice is heavy equipment operator, either one I can find jobs with.

Have already talked to two recruiters about the apnea, I really am hearing it's not going to be a problem as long as it is being treated and under control.

Now I need to find a school, I'm thinking Roadmaster, anyone with negitive on them.