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Let's me see if I got this straight...you initially paid $6000 for your CDL training through C1, which is far more expensive than most training company academies, especially if you complete the entire program when it becomes free, but now you are taking a refresher course for about $4000, but you got some sort of government grant to pay for it instead. Meanwhile, my and everyone else's taxes are getting wasted because you could have acquired a refresher course for free with a one year commitment.

 

I didn't get on here to bicker with you or anyone else. Everything I have written is the truth. If you don't want to take my word for it I really don't care. I have never "paid my dues" as you say because I have NEVER worked a crappy non-paying, never get you home job. you say "they don't exist" and in your world they don't because you have never taken the time to look for them and go knock on doors. Like many drivers you probably have very few social skills along with tattoos and face rings like many of my students did. And then you wonder why it is sooooo hard to find a good gig? Who wants to hire that? Most people do qualify for grants. That is why the enrollment at the school I taught at was 65% plus grants. It's really not hard, it just takes time to get them. You are obviously a bitter person who knows everything about the industry even know I probably have spent more than twice the time in it than you have. But I don't claim to know everything like you do. You and every other student can read this thread and probably won't take my advice. That's fine with me, you are just prolonging your inevitable failure. I'm just telling you how I would do it. Most that go through any form of training will be out of the industry within a year anyway. So what does it matter? In regards to your "loony instructor" comment, I will only say that I never gave my students an illusion that this was going to be easy for them. You have called BS on everything I have written even though it is all true. You look at money as to what it will cost you today and what you spent yesterday, not what it will save you in the future. This is why your idea is prone to failure. You are too narrow-minded to be open to suggestions and feel that just because you made mistakes and went with some crappy company training program that there is no other way. In regards to the "lifetime job placement guarantee", it is true and most schools have a program similar to this. But I guess if you can't pass a DOT drug test and the school can't get you a job that's the school's fault right? you are in the right profession because the trucking industry is full of bitter, negative people who do nothing but complain about wages and quality of life but do nothing to try and change it. Have a good evening, I've got better things to do.

 

just a piece of advice, you are a student. If you go into this thinking that you have a better way of doing things and people like myself who have been doing this a long time don't know what we are talking about or don't "do the math" as you say, You will not go very far. Maybe in your case it will work and I hope it does but....if you get in a truck with a trainer with an attitude like that expect to get to know the inside of a Greyhound bus really well.

 

What attitude? The first part what are u smoking is from aprevious post i was trying to cut out and quote like everyone else does i have never used that feature. All I was simply saying was that I experienced something different then what u all were saying. Sorry didnt come across that way.

 

Hey spacecowboy the first time would have been company paid had i not been dismissed. I have not been blessed with the financial means of paying for it myself. Trust me if i did i would have found better than c1