That's why I love this forum. Always learn something new, even if it's from another perspective. I've been working on "my list" of what I want...
CJ5, you a pilot?
Mig, what experience did you enter FFE with? In Chicago myself so would like to consider them, thanks!
Second that! Just looked over their website, seems pretty solid. Someone posted in a different thread "don't know why people feel they can only...
Geo: just looked at the info on Roehl...what a neat option, and so many options out of Chicago. Looks like I will be considering them too!!
Maybe I need to look again. I know the program at Elgin is a whole semester, three courses, one at a time.
I have looked at the community colleges, for sure. I guess I don't like the whole semester-long training while it could be done in a couple of...
No kidding...so it's back to looking at CDL schools in Chicago. Thanks for all your input guys!!!
So I just received an email and he doesn't have any trucks available. ?!?! Sorta changes things doesn't it? HA!
Seems like the consensus is "go." Either that, or CRE here I come! J/k...not that dumb :biggrin_2556:
Ha, this is true, but if I say Carol Stream, who the blazes knows where that is?:biggrin_2554:
Ok...so I suppose the big thing that holds me up is the pay structure. As I said, he pays a percentage of the truck gross (25%) which averages...
Thanks guys, and transam pete, I'm hearing what you're saying. I actually wrote a whole list of stuff I would actually miss about Chicago...could...
If I were to move in a few years though, the local trucking experience wouldn't count to an employer correct?
So I am looking at local CDL schools in Chicago and my dad offered me this: he's the manager of a trucking fleet in Kansas for a farm co-op. They...
Thanks wendellWl, I am now an uncle! Back to business....what do you guys think of refresher courses? Having had my CDL before I am not too...
I haven't made a choice yet, just had a newborn in the family so that took some time :) Is it important for the program to be PTDI certified or...
Klatu, when I moved to IL, my CDL wouldn't transfer without a new road test. I didn't have a CMV to do it so I lost out. Didn't know back then I...
So I have read takes on both having a permit before a school or not. I know some places actually require it, but did it make it any easier or...
I hadn't even considered the trucks themselves, not just the condition. As obvious as it is, I suppose since my first CDL was trained and had in...
