Do it on my own

You sir sound as if you know where you are going. You already just with your posting about livestock and the type of shifting you intend to do in logging tells me you have a bright future ahead.

Outstanding! Never mind those little tickets. Just keep it clean dontcha!?

 

I'd love to have a job like that; then the school could advertise, "We have a 100% pass rate at the DMV."

 

The state pays for private cdl school for the under-employed and unemployed. Unemployment offce will have the details. Also Google : WIA Program Pennsylvania

 

The school I went to wasn't like that. Out of 15 of us only 3 of us passed.

 

What I meant is if I was the one doing the DMV testing at the school, everyone would pass!!

 

You wouldn't be an examiner for more that 6 months before losing your job... and potentially being sued by the state...

 

I never went to a school other than I had to, too get the air brake endorsement, just a one day class.
I just borrowed the company truck and trailers on a few Sunday's until I figured I had it licked. I was just driving body jobs during the week.
Passed the first time.

 

If your buddy has access to a tractor/trailer and is really your BUDDY, He'll come by and teach you all you need to learn to pass the tests. IF you live in a state where school isn't required. IF you plan to work for a company that doesn't require a 160-hour course. IF his company will hire you with no experience and no training and NOT put you behind the wheel of a logging truck. (Unless you think dying/wrecking and not being able to get hired by ANYONE is a smart idea).

Logging is NOT for a rookie. It's a good way to die or get badly hurt for a rookie. It's hard for an experienced OTR driver. If you think ICE is scary? Try a logging road after a nice, mild drizzle. Ice on a paved road is EASY, in comparison.

Getting a CDL is easy. Even if money is tight. Work for a mega, be a low-wage slave for a year. There, you have your CDL and a year of experience. With that, you can make 43-50 CPM at LOTS of places if you don't have any tickets or other serious incidents.

If you wanted to be a plumber, it would be YEARS at slave-wages, doing back-breaking labor before you got your journeyman's card. If you wanted to be a PC specialist, you'd pay $30k and work for slave wages for 2 years, while studying every spare moment before you got your first "real" job.

Chances of you breaking into trucking without SOME kind of actual school are minimal, and what you'll be doing will rapidly make that "savings" look like a bad deal, more than likely.

People do it. Mostly people who's fathers/uncles are very experienced drivers.