getting there any which way

new to the forum, have this question i'm trying to find the best forum to ask it in:

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 20 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 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.