Why you should NOT attend company CDL training.

my credit was great up until I lost my last job, I had a newer home, a new car, high balance credit cards etc. Lost my job and first went my car which I traded to my mother who was in the market for a newer car for her pos 2006 nissan Sentra which my wife drives still, its a good running car just not the one I am happy with....next my house was foreclosed but partly my ex wifes fault since I gave it to her after the divorce and she stopped making payments which I was contacted a month after losing my job, well couldnt take the home back and make the mortgage payments. I had to use my credit cards to keep my family taken care of while battling to get disability for my back plus paying for chiropractor, doctors etc, by the time I started getting an income again I owed everyone and their mother. I am working on trying to get a bankruptcy done but its hard being on the road since they need you in person several times to do paperwork. Its going to be years before I can get my credit as good as it once was, sucks it took me years of a lot of work and budgeting to get my score that great but only months to be totally destroyed. Oh well you get knocked down you just have to get your butt back up and suck it up which I have done, the good moral of my story is that I learnt to live within my means and cheaper, my wife wants a bigger house etc but I tell her no we save and fix the credit and look later. No need to get myself in a tighter financial situation again especially since I make less than half of what I used to as a trucker.

 

My ex-wife's laziness and penchant for quitting jobs and causing bankruptcies led to my filing for divorce. Before marrying I had great credit. Since I left her, it has been a struggle to fix all the damage to it she caused. I will never ,ever marry again if I have to count on a wife for half the bills.

 

I think company paid CDL training is a good solution for me. I see it as an opportunity. Especially since I don't have to go into personal debt to do it this way, provided I satisfy the terms of the contract. I have seriously considered going to school, I can't afford to pay it up front, I would have to take out a loan. If I can find a company, or companies to offer me a job, paid training with a contract, then I am doing well. In other words I think its best when I don't have to dig a hole to get my feet off the ground!

 

Doesn't Stevens pay by the mile?

 

.26 to start. Up to .30 after a year i believe

 

yeah my ex wife was bad about spending money we didnt have, her rich parents gave her money all the time too, she was a spoiled rich brat, spent $200 just to get her hair done and I would refuse so her mother would pay it....she still lives with her parents since I left her in 2010....Never ever ever marry a spoiled rich girl unless your rich too and still think about it lol.

My wife I have now is a great woman, she will ask me if she can even spend $5 at the dollar store, my rule I give her if its needed dont ask, if its something she just wants well then you better ask and explain why you want it. Only extra thing she really ask for every month is her netflix account for her and the baby to watch family movies and stuff and internet of course. She wants cable back but thats pushing it lol.

 

That's bloody ridiculous. 26 cents a mile? Stevens?

 

Yeah, just had their recruiter in my school last month. 26 CPM starting. I think it's 28 at 6 months and 30 at a year. Free WiFi for you to use through the QC, but that seems to be all that's special about Stevens. Pretty trucks.

 

Those wages (26-30) per mile are 1991-1992 STARTING wages you know. Next time those companies come around, ask them why their wages are 22 years out of date. They all cry for drivers, all the mega carriers, especially the likes of US Express, they are all over the internet and all over craigslist, and all over the trucker magazines crying and promising this and that, but yet they don't want to pay any real wages for new drivers. The wi-fi is to keep you busy so you have something to do and don't complain about laying-over, and shiny trucks are also just a marketing tools for new drivers-what you need are pennies in your pocket!

 

Swift begins at 25 cents still

pretty much your first year of trucking is slave labor and then you MIGHT be able to find a better paying company, some want 2 years.