Stevens or FFE : DFW area choices?

I've been thinking about this for seven years now. The time has come to zero in on where to start.

I live in North Ft. Worth/Keller. FFE training is less than 30 mins from the house. Stevens is south Dallas over 1 hour away with traffic.

1) Still not sure what doing on with FFE. Is it now KLLM?? Should I continue reading about FFE or more reading on KLLM?

From what I have gathered so far:

Stevens: Training company, its going to suck. But new equipment, people who answer the phones when you have issues on the road, and a safety team that can be a pain in the butt, but are there to keep things in good order.

FFE/KLLM??: Training company, its going to suck. Seems to have 'used trucks' of various cleanliness and reliability. And folks that don't always answer the phone when on the road with issues. FFE seems to be a bit better than KLLM in reputation, but how does that play out now?

It will suck to drive across DFW for training, and each time I get home after training or have to return to work. But may the better option to get thru my first year.

FFE is down the street great for the first few weeks of training, but will that also be were I start and stop after I'm on the road and get home time?
I choosing to be close to home for these things going to be trivial when having to deal with the company long term?

Are there other schools in the area that pay training and I am missing?

Appreciate all the answers, especially about this FFE/KLLM merger. I also tried to make my questions unique, as I know its irritating to see repeated questions!

I know this rookie year is going to suck no matter: dealing with company issues, and being away from family.
But I can't go 10 blocks around my area without seeing some great CDL opportunity. There will be options to choose from after I get up and rolling!
Pretty excited about pulling the trigger finally!

 

That does look interesting!

Thanks... I had not noticed that company yet.

 

Rotorzilla after seven years, I still don't have the post count to reply to messages.

I was just reading up on Millis. I noticed they require two years. It seems other companies only one year.
May not be a big deal if I will be running close to home and the company is good.

Also do recruiters work all areas? Would yours help me in Texas?

 

I was just reading a lot of reports of issues in work history, I had been assuming that was only related to industry jobs if you had them.
The past five years companies I worked for are no longer... there would be no one to verify employment. Although they could see that the company once was, I have no idea how they would verify. Also the past 3 years I had my own company, that was never profitable... hence the search for new opportunities.

Pretty curious how this will play out.