Accreditation and Certification: important?

I went through the same thing when I was picking my school. It was between a little CDL school that said 15 days or the much bigger better school. I went with the better school, mainly because the GI Bill would cover it but also because of the hours. The course I'm taking is 160 truck hours and I could pick and choose what endorsements I wanted. Does either school have different courses or just one set amount of hours for your CDL?

 

I still have a little over a month left in the service so 160 hours wasn't much of a problem. Plus I just wanted to feel a little more comfortable with the truck when I'm done. Ya 10k is a bit much, but 4-6 weeks isn't bad.

 

Thank you
Im actually in school at HDS in tucson right now. After looking through the forum a lot at all the starter companies I'm pretty set on Roehl. They do flatbed which is what I really wanted to get into. 21 days of orientation and pretty new trucks. Other ones were crete and schneider. Crete hires new drivers if you go through one of their selected schools, if not through their school it's a case by case basis. Schneider was my third choice. They have a program I was looking at called the choice program. It's pretty much leasing a truck and getting your own choice of what freight you haul. I've read and talked to people about it, lots of good things said but all in all a lease is a lease. I'd rather be a company driver for a year, make sure I like what I'm doing then go o/o.
Oh forgot to say, I got hired on with roehl working west coast regional. Getting a prehire and job offer anywhere is pretty easy so don't sweat it. It's all just sending them the application online. They'll send you a email saying they got your app, then maybe a day or two later you should get your prehire email. Make sure you call your recruiter after you get the prehire email. Then you get the official job offer and they schedule your orientation date. Lots of people at my school have no idea where their gona work after they get their license and most have signed up with the first company they saw.
What companies are you looking at so far?

 

I know schneider has quite a few terminals in the NY area and all over the east coast. That might be your best choice of them all. Not sure about any others, maybe crete. Those are the only ones I've seen all the terminals for. Also you might now be in their hiring area but if it's where a lot of their pickups/ drops you might be a exception.

 

Hey H.S. Excellent post, was gonna contribute but we have already talked, 10 GRAND, from everything i know that is LUDICROUS, an i"m not talking about the rapper. I don"t remember if it was you or someone else that i said go with your gut, if it don"t feel rite RUN, run fast. It"s to bad about the logistics for you or we could"a been classmates, did you look into the W.I.A., for funding?