Best path for a prospective Trucker

try your best to get a student loan at your local bank, credit union, or through the school financial aid. it is far, far better to owe a bank, than a trucking company. (and if you got cash..?? i'd save it and get the loan instead)

good luck to you and your quest to be a driver.

 

NO, companies hire students right out of school, but you HAD BETTER take them up on thier offer ASAP. the longer you "dilly-dally" and not make up your mind to get going, the "clock" ticks regarding your time out of a truck, and they CAN DEMAND that you GO BACK to school...!!!

so as soon as you gradumacate yourself and get that CDL, GET GOING and Git-R-Done..

 

it's called, "pre-hire" but it means "diddly"..you still gotta pass ALL the background checks and such. every trucking company that hire students gives them out like a $2.00 hooker gives out Herpes.

 

If you can go to a non company school, you really are in a great position to get with a good company. There are 400,000+ trucking companies out there. Don't fool yourself into thinking that you have to work for one of the 10 biggest. Many don't advertise for drivers, but will hire you. I hired on with a "smallish"(150 truck) local company. Good miles, no "6 weeks with a trainer" nonsense, almost every weekend off and decent benefits. They hire pretty regularly but almost NEVER advertise. They get referrals from other drivers, recommendations from the comm college driving school and they figure if you don't have enough ambition to seek them out, then they don't want you anyway.

My overall point being is that there are a lot of hidden gems out there if you don't stick to the "status quo".