Guess I need to give up my dream of getting my CDL

Yea, I know he states that. I simply don't believe he's looked at all his options. Heck my school self financed and he cannot be in much worse of a place than I was financially. Maybe I just got lucky, maybe looking around for a good year to find something paid off.

This I agree with 100%

 

Become unemployed in NJ and you have the state pay for your CDL school. Lord knows I trained alingside plenty of them when I went through.

 

Well it depends too what kind of trucking and his work ethic. I went company trained because I didnt have the money either. Got into team hauling reefers. We load our own trailers throughout the week. Ended up making way more that I thought I would for my first year. Lots of fatigue but overall its been lucrative and a lot of fun.. All in an automatic semi.

Just tryin to help the guy out as others on this site did for me a year ago. When ur pulling in 1000-2000 a week, who cares about an auto-restriction? I wouldn't care! And my savings account wouldnt either. Thats the whole reason we work.

 

But a smart man can get a lot done with that money while it’s booming.

I wasn’t very smart

 

Yes.....no trucking for u.....you can be a broker though.....or fleet mgr......

 

Except you wont even have the opportunity to be turned down because you are not even on the road. That's the whole point i am making. All your excuses dont even apply because you have not even started yet.

You are like that character on the Franz Kafka short story where he wants to walk through a door to get to where he is going... But its being guarded and he sits and waits and waits and waits. Until finally after years he finally asks the guard, who are you guarding for? He said he was guarding it for you, you were supposed to walk through, but you never did. Its too late now. Then the guard shuts the door, it locks, and walks away.

Don't be that guy.

 

Half of the trucking companies offer Tuition Reimbursement to pay for your CDL school. Sell some of your junk, work at McDs and save your money. Pick a company with a company-sponsored CDL school and get the license with an automatic only license. That's what 80% of us are driving or will be driving very soon. If throwing the stick is a big deal to you, save a couple hundred dollars after you start working and go get it removed from your license. It will be a novelty sooner or later. Stop & go traffic is a daily reality. Automatics are perfect for that. Most automatics can be used either as a manual, or ALMOST like a manual when youe really need it.

I think you are looking for an excuse. Maybe I'm wrong.

 

I seem to remember a LOT of guys that would only drive Peterbuilts.

And there was a company in El Paso with nice black Pete’s. They would put them in one, at .25 a mile. While I was making .42 driving a KW.

Die hards die broke