Trying to get CDL paid for by the State of Michigan

Spend about 2 or 3 hours within this forum...reading every piece you can find.

Then if you can still hold lunch down, you might make it.

 

If the people running the program spent 2-3 hours reading the forums they'd cut the funding off because most workers taking training now will be left behind . Go to the old posts by all the eager beavers that went to school 6 months ago and see how many came back and are telling how much they are making . Then go to Bad Trucking companies and see how many got shafted and quit . Yeah , some companies are hiring . It's not because freight is increasing . No companies are adding trucks . They are all reducing fleet size . The ones hiring are hiring because drivers keep quitting . Think about it .

 

right on ...

 

You are right i went to school back in august and i was only makin 160-200 a week and i quit i couldnt survive right now!!!-Punisher-

 

Please......Please..... stick around. We needs folks like you in the forum. It lends credibility to us "old" whiners, that are trying to talk some sense into some of these folks.

Note: I said some. I realize some of the guys are doing it because it's what they really want to do. But others are doing it, thinking they will save themselves with large checks.

 

First of all, you SHOULD be warned that your "home-time" is in reverse proportion to the distance you live from a major truck-lane. Which means: living in Traverse City, you can pretty much forget getting a job with a local carrier (because of that supply/demand theorem) and you will be lucky to find a major carrier that could promise you home-time more frequently than a few times a YEAR. You might consider moving to the "city".

 

Trucking isn't for people who 'need a job'. Trucking is for people who have it in their blood.