Special Alert!!! Truck Driving Schools

can you elaborate on the $per mile and durations of time spent away from home?

 

i can elaberate, i left michigan sept,27 08 flew to stevens,dallas,tx.
monday mornin in class friday in trainers truck. otr with trainer till nov,9th
i class monday mornin went dumb and dumber sat,nov,16th drove 10,000 miles
4 weeks with trainee,trainee. back at stevens dec,12th in class for 1 day was on the road with my own truck dec,20th first load on my own to geneva,IL d/l on 22nd p/o in chicago, later that day took it to grandville,mi d/l dead head home 177 miles home dec,23 til 1/3/09 back in truck 1/3/09 in chicago p/o 1/5-d/l on 1/7 sussex,nj

oh money, $350.00 per week i saw $330 after taxs
that was til my forth week with trainee,trainee then it was
$500.oo for two and a half weeks. awsome training would i do
it agian in a hart beat awsome adventure, and learnig exsp.
not a lot of money but i drive as good as my trainer or maybe better
now, i never starved one day always had anything i needed and more.
stevens is great on training and safty prob the best glad i came here
you must have a good attitude thou its not for everyone.
"if theres no struggle its not worth doing" prepair for the worst,hope for the best
that way you wont be disapointed.....

 

I paid almost $4000 in Buford GA at Daly's --------------waste of time and money - I would urge anyone to be on their toes with this man.

 

I chose to attend Community College in Ft. Scott, Kansas for my CDL. I checked with the company that I intended to work for and was informed that the school was fully acredited and that it was a school on their "list" of approved training facilities. I paid my tuition $1200.00 and attended school for 6 weeks, Monday thru Friday. I received 2 hours of classroom time, including math studies, 2 hours on a backing range daily and 2 hours on the road driving daily. There were only 7 students in my class, so there was plenty of time "behind the wheel" and plenty of time for one on one help from the instructors. All of the instructors were experienced OTR drivers and not only taught you how to pass the DMV test but how to drive the truck. They gave you insights into what to expect once you were on the road. The funny thing was there was another class going on in another room and I soon found out that these were drivers that had signed an agreement with Swift. Swift was paying for their school and they were contracted to Swift for 1 year or would owe Swift $3000.00. They had virtually the same instructors and the exact same lesson plans. The only significant difference was that they received less driving time because there was more of them in the class and their classes only lasted 4 weeks. When one of them learned that he could have attended the same school for a lot less money and would not have to be tied to Swift he about puked. When I completed my school I went to work for Werner and went through their training program. Once I qualified they reinbursed my $1200.00 tuition, though they did divide it up and it took about 4 weeks to receive it all. I've been driving now of over 8 years and I always tell anyone who asks me to check out any Community College's in their area. Another perk to the Community College is that I received credits toward a college degree if I ever want to go back to college for some kind of degree

 

Which Community College is doing the CDL class in FL? How much is the cost and how long is the course.

Thanks

 

Do a google search
So many variables

 

20 years ago, i got into class B trucking, driving garbage trucks (rear-loaders to roll-offs) as well as box trucks, lumber trucks, cement-mixers, school buses etc. over the course of about 5 years. needless to say the stability of my work history left a little to be desired. summer of '07, after driving a cab for 3 years, decided to follow the example of another driver and see if i couldn't wrangle a way to elevate my then class C into an A and drive those big trucks, make some real money or at least better than what i was making. with no credit and no backers to cosign a loan to do a regular trucking school (still the case), i discovered morning star trucking company out of los banos, CA who said they'd pay for their training of me if i promised to haul their tomatoes for the whole harvest season. done deal. after a scant eight hours total training, i passed the dmv road test and commenced to driving doubles, hauling 40 tons of tomatoes from field to cannery. only thing being is i got into the season late so only managed to work a few days less than the 90 that most if not all trucking companies require as previous experience. add to that that all my driving was intrastate on flat roads. so now i'm trying to get into the real real deal but being financially challenged as i am, will need to go thru a company-sponsored truck driving school, what some refer to as a mill, in return for committing to a year driving for that company. i'm sure you all know the drill, that this is the way most new drivers are breaking into this business. so here's my question. i've been reading about the good companies out there and researching whether they offer training. schneider, my first pick, is no longer offering training. roehl, which i heard a lot of good things about, disallows anyone with more than one dui/dwi in a lifetime and i, sadly, had two back in '94. i was looking at maverick but i hear now their graduates must haul glass (for some reason a "crappy job") instead of flatbedding. this is still an option for me as i care less about how i break in than that i do. but then i hear good things about watkins & shepard. so again, here's my question: does anyone know of or had good experiences with company-sponsored training and do they still offer same? any and all help is deeply appreciated.

 

My school was also in Tampa and was only three weeks. We only had about 10 or 12 hours of behind the wheel driving. I must say the instructors cared about the students and the lady who helped find jobs was very good.It was obvious that the director of training thought he was way above us lowly students.all in all the experiance was positive even if it did cost 4500.

 

For those in NC check out the CDL training at Johnston Community College in Smithfield. The school is State supported and is really a deal. I only paid $325 in 1994. I'm sure it's gone up a little by now, but it's still probably reasonable.

 

Just google North Carolina Truck Driver Training School.