how difficult is it to get my cdl without going to school?

Hell the place I work at will hire burger flippers off the street and train them to get a CDL.

 

Honestly this industry is so hard to get into its no wonder they have driver shortages. If you go on with one of those companies like Swift you get screwed for a year to year-and-a-half and make no money and forget about seeing your family. If you do it without a school you have to have a buddy or somebody like that with a truck and actually learn to drive the truck with in them and just hope their insurance will cover that which it wont. I'm honestly fed up with trying to figure out how to make it work I make #### good money running this Hotshot. I really just wanted to get a truck so I can haul more product for my company and make more money but all the ways you have to go through it I'm just pretty much about to say forget it. Personally I don't want to go on to them s*** CDL driver mill companies and get raped. I got a wife and to babies at Clemson University that I'm paying for. I can't just cut my pay in half for a year lol

 

Not every one gets raped; seems the ones having all the problems stayed in mommy's house too long and are too hardheaded to realize they don't really know everything in the world.
Look at Carolina Logistic - www.carolinalogistic.com in Candler, NC for cdl training.
One driver that went through that school said part of his training was 15 California turnarounds with a trainer; running hard and keeping the wheels turning & getting paid to do it.

 

Thanks I will give them a call Monday to see what they have going on

 

It is not that hard at all.

Even in the post 9-11 I can probably refresher course myself back into a CDL A and be rolling Medical loads within a month in a particular way. Never mind my current medical situation. That would be where the battle is won or lost.

Someone like me in prime working age who is off the road pretty much permanently due to disability via wear and tear of trucking by mid 40's mean someone else will have to replace me. It's a hard industry to stay in long. If you are there long enough you move up to dispatchers. The last klatch coffee room of dispatchers I saw were in their late 20's and 30's afraid of my language which was not that bad being cleaned up for the most part that day.

It's not hard. Just expensive. And picky.