What companies train

The two cheapest and also with high quality training are Prime and Central Refrigerated. No money up front, send a bus ticket to you. Prime also has flatbed & tanker & refrigerated..

 

My suggestion would be go to a school to get your class A THEN choose a company. Do not obligate yourself to a company because the "trained" you. Good luck.

 

Stay away from CR England! Bad news there buddy!

 

I can provide more detail in a little bit when i have some time. I'm about to roll on the down the hwy to pick up a load.
I'm with Prime and I am enjoying it so far! It is a GREAT company, good people and a great mentality.
I'll provide more details soon!

 

I wouldn't exactly label Prime the cheapest, as you have to train for an extended period of time at their slave wages. In other words, they are enhancing their bottom line at the expense of your cheap labor. There are many other training companies that don't take advantage of newbie drivers the same way that Prime does.

Regarding Central Refrigerated, I'm unfamiliar with their current training program, but I do know that they have previously lost class action law suits in the past for swindling drivers I believe with regards to their lease purchase program.

 

In other words, obligate yourself to a school that is considerably more expensive rather than to a trucking company that is relatively inexpensive and then afterward once you acquire your CDL, go to work for a training company that is likely to have a school you could have attended for a small fraction of the cost as well. Not to mention that when a person first acquires a CDL, that person is able to drive a class 8 vehicle with just barely enough skills to pass the CDL test and is still a very long way yet from becoming a professional driver. It's not like being a marketable professional driver with a proven tract record of success and where that driver can have his choice of jobs. You are a trainee that's it!

Some of you guys act as if a CDL is a 4-year college degree. It's not, it's a basic driver's license and in the case of becoming a professional driver, it's the bare minimum necessary for getting hired on with a training company as a trainee that will not only train you but also provide you with an internship where you can gain the skills and experience necessary for becoming a professional driver. Moreover, at the end of one year, the vast overwhelming majority of people that attempted to become a professional driver will have failed for various reasons.

Hence, since it is the bare minimum necessary to become a trainee to begin training to become a professional driver, get your CDL via the cheapest route available to you, which in most instances but not all is via company supplied training.

 

Pam is bad some of their trainers have only 6 months driving time