Truck Driver Institute

China car haulers:
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Schools teach enough to get a CDL. Your real learning will be bought and paid for by tears, sweat and fear in your first load to your last however long you are out here, be it 3 weeks, 90 days, a few years or a lifetime.

For every 100 who get CDL's we lose so many within the first three years. We constantly need more. Very few of these get past 5, 10 and more years.

 

ouch!!!

 

hey x1heavy, good hearing from u again. how u feeling dude? i know thats real talk. more i read the more i question myself. will it be too stressfull for me? can i really hanlde a big rig, undoing some bad 4 wheel driving habits? dealing patiently with dispatch, dm, shippers/receivers, learning all this new stuff, getting back into a daily work routine? just real issues that i honestly ask myself. been in sales, drove a box truck making deliveries to 25-30 accts per day, did labor work, lil wholesale manager gig. so i do have people skills, college degree and ain't affraid of hard work. everything been years ago. gotta keep it real. my buddy says go for it-only way to find out if 1) u can do it 2) u like it. talked with TDI (Truck Driver Institute) here in gulfport ms and they said they don't take state grant money anymore but have in-house financing. Have u any knowledge about them and proram? Guesse some of this is natural but i gotta/want to do something, at 60yo options getting limited. What u think man?

 

Save your tuition money, pay it all in cash any way you can. That way you are not indentured to a company that might fire you at any time for rubbing a curb or something. That is one of the biggest problems in this cursed industry, students go 6000 into debt for indentured 12 months labor to get it free and boom dismissed in 3 and now hounded for the rest of it.

Now I did mine in student loans late 80's at 2500. The money I made the first 6 months should have more than paid it off. But eh... lessons to learn. It was a great investment considering.

You have many years left yet. Next thing you would be 90 and still driving and outlive us all. If you choose the student loan route, pay them off first to the max within a few months. Get free from them.

Most drivers are handicapped by being broke cannot rub 20 dollars in coin after shaking a orientation class room most weeks. You want to be the other way.

 

You're 60 years old now. How old will you be if you don't attend truck driving school?
Trucking is the only industry where there's no age discrimination. You can be too young, but not too old, to be a cdl driver as long as you can pass a physical.
Even at 60 yrs. old, you still have time to prepare for a comfortable retirement as a trucker.

 

the main topics from my last post were more oriented to self-doubts, paralysis of over analysis and what if anything do u know about tdi. I'll take your financial suggestion in account but paying for it up front is definately out.

 

hey chinatown whats happening? Yeah that be the plan if i can get my ### in the seat and start rolling. Self-doubt and paralysis of analysis, as a result of reading too much forum stuff, is creeping in. Natural? Let alone figuring out best way to get schooled with very limited funds. U already said tdi has a good program and i'd hope that includes the one in gulfport, ms. It will happen if meant to be. Appreciate comment. Be safe!

 

Last couple of drivers that posted about the school were hired by tanker companies; one being CTL Transportation.
Contact some companies you want to work for and ask if they hire from TDI.
Where do you plan to live, which state, after graduation?

 

i have the plan of no plan. Stay open to any and all possibilities. I fly solo, unfortuneatly lifelong bachelor. Curious, why u ask? + or - of reasoning? Thanks!