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I have actually done both as I let my CDL go for a number of years. I personally feel the company training was better because you get so much more time driving on actual roads. Plus you back I to different types of docks, some with a lot of room and some tight as heck. My first backing I to a dock we had no choice but to blind side it in. To me it just gives you so much more time to learn how the trailer reacts to which way you turn the stearing wheel. The down side to company training is you have to sign a contract. However if you have no experience you have to get it some where why not with the ones who trained you.

 

Whatever is cheapest in the time you have available. Either way, you're going to end up in the same place.

The contract is to repay the money the company paid for your schooling if you decide to not drive for that company. You can leave the sponsoring company at any time.

One advantage of company training is that you're pretty much guaranteed a job after school...

 

I hear prime is one of the best companies to start with? i live in Florida there is a flatbed division out here. which is what i long for.

 

I have no complaints and they just about the eat starting pay which helps

 

If nothing else, to my knowledge Prime pays more than any other training company, as far as I've seen. That alone is enough for me to recommend them (I trained through Prime, so theres that, too). At the end of the day there's a huge variable that all companies can only control to a certain extent: The trainers themselves. You hear of horror stories and success stories with every company.

I don't know if they hire out of florida for flatbed, you'd have to check with a recruiter. We definitely haul freight into/out of there.

Personally, if I would have been in a better position financially, I would have gotten my CDL through a community college or other training school and then came to Prime. It would really suck to sign that contract and then find out you really hate the job, and end up owing $3000 or being stuck in a job you hate.

 

Aww come on! A year ain't all that bad. Stick it out six months, and it's only half...

 

Hey, I don't hate the job that much, so a year (or 6 months, which I'm almost at) won't be a problem. I hate this job like 30 minutes a day at most, where as I hated my last job for like three years continuously.

 

Look at the bright side... the food ain't MREs, and ain't nobody shootin' at ya! And a year really meant 13 months minus a couple o' days on a short tour...

 

I'd rather have the MREs. At least it's not subway or mcdonalds.

 

Get s small grill 'n burn some cow..