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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tierael, post: 8442828, member: 241185&quot;]<font face="Courier New">Hello I am Tierael, I am new to all of this obviously.&nbsp; I have been on the forums here for several weeks doing research into just about everything related to trucking I can.&nbsp; Thanks to all of you my Fiance and I have chosen to go with CFI.&nbsp; I am creating this thread here to illustrate our journey through the training process until we are both upgraded into our own truck.&nbsp; After which I will mostly post in the What&#039;s Your 20 Topic.</font></p><p><font face="Courier New"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Courier New">So for some background, we have had a rough time of it the last several years ever since we met.&nbsp; Financially things just haven&#039;t gone our way and we ended up here in eastern Virginia after a recent eviction in our home state of northern Indiana.&nbsp; Can&#039;t say we really miss the place, we never wanted to be trapped there anyway.&nbsp; We were lucky my grandparents owned a bit of land here and are nice enough to allow us to stay at their property on this mountain.&nbsp; So how did we come to trucking as the answer?&nbsp; Well local work around here is really sparse and both of my Grandparents were truckers for a long time, my grandfather is still at it in fact.&nbsp; So I did my research and figured this was a good line of work to get us off this mountain and hopefully climb out of debt eventually.</font></p><p><font face="Courier New"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Courier New">I know the journey ahead will be incredibly difficult and I have a good idea of what we are getting into.&nbsp; We both agreed on this course of action and we choose CFI thanks to the recommendations of those that frequent this forum. Since we are new to the industry we wanted top-notch training and CFI seems like it will provide that.&nbsp; I really like that they run newbies and trainers as a solo outfit as compared to the rest of the industry. Plus we really don&#039;t have the means to afford schooling/training on our own so a company sponsored thing was our best bet.&nbsp; </font></p><p><font face="Courier New"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Courier New">So right now, we have our 2-Year DOT Medical Cards, and we are preparing to take our CLP test this coming Monday. After which we will contact the recruiter again. It was touch and go there for a bit as I didn&#039;t have us apply early enough it seems. Our work history kind of sucks due to the lack stability and we really want to be somewhere we can work at for awhile especially considering I&#039;m about to be 30 and she&#039;s 26 so getting a solid retirement built up is at the front of my mind. Anyway luckily despite my fiance&#039;s work history we just received a call today and were both accepted. We&#039;ve already been studying but we felt we were in limbo waiting for that call because we had our hearts set on this company. Now that it is out of the way, I am going to help my Fiance finish her studies and we will both be hitting the practice tests hard in preparation for Monday.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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