Federal DOT Grants

Check into your state job training assistance. In 2009 I got mine paid for by the WIA. Even paid gas money for me to get there.

 

I am in VA and WIA and Rehab Services are paying for trucking school, books and gas.
Good luck.

 

Well, in here in Hancock Co. in the city of Findlay in NW Ohio the local workforce JobSolutions agency that runs WIA apparently doesn't like giving out WIA funds very much because they basically told me that WIA funds wont be available unless I show a extensive job search listing. They did not seem to want to help me get training assistance at all. It's been very frustrating because I do not want to go to CR England or somebody similar and deal with their crap.

 

Same story here in UT, the workforce services was just hunting for reasons to hang onto the money, no idea why. Finally I got vocational rehab to help out. Spoke to other students and none of them could get workforce services to cough up more than half the cost. I guess it is hard to qualify at best and impossible to qualify if you have had any education after high school.

 

try checking at local jr college for grants

 

Sorry guys I am just posting so that I can be able to PM.

 

Check with your local employment service (WIN Job Center) about WIA funding, or if you were displaced due to a business closing especially due to foreign competition there may be TAA funds available. If you are a veteran, you can check with the VA and if a National Guardsman they have the "Drive the Guard" program. As far as a Pell grant is concerned if the program is a "credit" course a Pell may be an option, if not then no.

 

Yes on the DOT grant. Im attending a local community college and received a $1000 grant. Check into it with your school, or go to your state DOT office.