Truck Driving School Paid By Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Funding

Thanks man but the question that bother me is: what college or school would take wia funding?
Done intensive searches on that matter all to no avail
can u help me out with this?

 

btw i didnt recieve my unemployment benefits due to the fact i didnt qualify due to the fact that i quit instead of being fired from my non trucking job. Would that have an affect on me getting this funding?

 

Mainstream media seems to go into "truck driver shortage" blitz mode shortly after any political discussions occur on the nightly news about current job numbers and unemploymant rates.

Few people understand that favorable tax incentives, subsidies, state and local job training grant programs are incentives for truck driver training carriers to cash in. When you see these hysterical reports you should recognize that what is really going on is a positioning for a money grab.

There is no incentive to create qualified drivers, but there is an incentive to create turnover.

We have created a corporate welfare program for big trucking and this has sacrificed safety, good judgement, ethical recruiting and contributes to high turnover. There is little accountability for the lack of retention. This is directly related to mis-management and corporate greed.

Very few qualified truck drivers ever emerge from training carriers , yet these same carriers reap rewards from favorable job programs, high interest tuition loans and selling novice drivers on lease owner operator situations where they are set up to fail from day one.


Until initiative is taken to examine how a person off the street is sold the "dream" of becoming an "over the road" truck driver, which is an entry level position into the industry, this qualified driver safety issue cannot be resolved.

 

Newbie, i am doing wia here in ohio. They based mine off of low income from last year. Here if you made under 33k between you and your wife you qualify. As far as finding the schools there are independent trucking schools not affiliared with any comapny or community college. Try that. That is what I did and how I found out about the WIA

 

The schools don't tell nobody what truck driving is really about. Over +90% of the people going to school to get their CDL don't know what they're really getting themselves into. They just see the potential money earnings and their eyes light up like lightbulbs and they don't look at the whole picture.

 

But is it really worth the cost to help the 10% gain at the cost of the 90% loss on the TAXPAYERS Dime ..? I'm not sure that is fair or right IMHO..

 

in new jersey unemployment office handled all the paperwork for me
as I came back trucking after a 20 year hiatus

 

I miss the good old days when you joined the military and used the GI bill to get an education.