Getting Started from overseas Advice Please!!

Apply to all of them.
I don't know of any trucking company schools in Alaska. Maybe there is, but I don't know of any.

 

Not that’ll it’ll be tough to learn but some companies will test you on automatic and put the restriction on your license and it’s just hassle to deal with just a watch out

 

After you finish your contract with a training company; transfer to a company that runs Alaska, such as www.lynden.com
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As you are a U.S. Citizen, you don't need my advice.
Just one thing, driving a stick in Germany means nothing to driving a stick here.
German transmissions are synchronized and you will have a lot of fun with an Eaton Fuller in the beginning!

I was lucky as I learned to drive an Eaton Fuller transmission in Germany, my first truck, a MAN, had one 1980.
When I came over, it took my a few days to get used to it again

 

I don't know, how it's nowadays in Germany as my last OTR job there was almost 15 years ago.
When I left Germany 2009, I moved to Canada and started new as a truck driver, I was a rookie again but had many years of experience, that helped a lot.
2013 I moved to the U.S. with a Green Card, my Canadian boss at that time owned a company in Texas, I had a job immediately.
When you start here, you need a lot of patience, you will be a rookie with no American work experience.
When you apply for a job, it will take much longer to get approved, in Germany I had an interview and after that, I had the job immediately, here it can take weeks.
Don't be "Mister Know-It-All", even if you know it better
You will sit more and wait for loads, in Europe it's better organized, no European company would survive here for three months, it's all a slower pace with dispatching loads as in Europe. Patience, as you don't have no savings, it will be very hard for the first months.
You have never been to the States, so I think you have no Social Security Card, you will need this first.
Did you ever drive a big truck in Germany? In your first post you tell us you have a driver's license for car and bike.
Again, without savings it will be a problem, you will need money to survive at least three, better six months.
Try to save some money and probably get some trucking experience in Germany!

 

Stay over there..... this side sucks.

 

Their is only one school here in fairbanks that I know of, and it is not a company school. No companies that I know of puts a driver through school and then hires them to drive in Alaska, it would be much easier to get a couple of years experience down south before trying to get on with a company up here.

 

Still better here than Europe