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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cerberus XVI, post: 8452077, member: 203663&quot;]So I can answer a few of your concerns based on my wife and I&#039;s experience with the training process. And let me start by saying, CFI loves its teams and will bend over backwards for you. </p><p><br /></p><p>So starting with schooling we were told we would be going to Crowder College. While we were on the greyhound bus however, about an hour or so away from Joplin, we get a phone call from truck dynasty saying that we were signed up for classes there in springfield, mo. So right away red flags went up, we tried for a few hours of trying to get a hold of our recruiter, and finally after a few hours of trying and about an hour of sitting up at the greyhound bus station in joplin we got it sorted out. There wasnt any space for us at crowder college without splitting my wife and i up in male and female dorm rooms. SO the recruiter made the call for us that she said she believed we would have made and they set us up with Truck Dynasty in Springfield, Mo. So they set us up with a hotel room and some cash every week for food. Not a super bad experience. But not fun either. </p><p>I passed my CDL testing the first time, but my wife failed twice unfortunately. She is a great driver, problem is she is a horrible tester! So i passed my test on a tuesday, and CFI told us that she could start the orientation class with me that following monday if she could pass by tuesday. Well after a horrible chain of events at Truck Dynasty they screwed my wife out of her testing slot and gave it to someone else who they wanted out of there school asap. So my wife wasnt able to test. We werent happy with this at all, but after coming to terms with it i left on the greyhound to joplin for orientation that saturday night. and CFI said my wife would have to wait until the week after to go into orientation. After talking to our recruiter however, they said if she could pass by Tues.that they would stick her in my orientation class and speed her through the process so we could be together. (Did i mention CFI loves their teams). </p><p>So she passes and joins my orientation group and all is well. Here is where things started to get sticky. Or so we thought at the time,</p><p><br /></p><p>Like you, my wife and I wanted to spend the bare minimum amount of time apart! We are used to being together every single moment of every single day. Thats just the relationship we have, which is why we felt we would do good in teaming in the first place. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anywho! getting side tracked, after your 4 day orientation, you can either A. go on the list for trainers right away. Or B. Go home for..um..5-7days. i dont quite remember. </p><p><br /></p><p>So if you choose to go on the list with a trainer right away if there is one available then they will send you out asap. If not they send you home to wait. Well we were told that it could be two weeks or more for my wife to find a trainer. There arent many female trainers out there. So knowing this info she decided that she didnt care if her trainer smoked or not because finding a nonsmoking trainer may have taken even longer. and i chose to take my voluntary 5-7 days off so we could spend more time at home together. Well the day after my days off ended i had gotten word that my trainer was ready. After a very emotional goodbye, i rode the greyhound to joplin to go join my trainer. 5 hours after i left my wife calls me and she had gotten an email saying that her trainer was ready too! So she left the day after me, and we got to spend another 1 or 2 days together in joplin while our trainers got their stuff in order and my wife actually left before i did,they had a load going to CO and i had a load going to TX. (forgot to mention at this point my wife got a nonsmoking trainer luckily) </p><p><br /></p><p>the 3 wks we were out with finishers went mostly smoothly, other than my phone being ruined by water on like day 2! and it was a whole week before i made it to a walmart to get a temp. phone. Luckily my trainer was nice enough to let me call my wife every night for a half hour or so before bed. The 3wks flies by so fast, your so busy during the day between learning and driving, you dont have too much time to miss home. If you lucky like me and you get a good trainer you will make your first friend on the road. I still talk to my trainer weekly and we stopped driving almost 4 months ago.. </p><p><br /></p><p>anywho if you have any questions feel free to PM me![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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