Anyone Know of a good paying trucking company that also does CDL Training

Going to a training company is a sure recipe for disaster.

Truthfully you should concentrate on picking up whatever job you can get close to home until you are in a position of getting your CDL on your own (no training company).

Can you live with being away from home for a few weeks at a time? Can you live with being paid less than 500-600/week for doing it? (This is before taxes, BTW)

Your criminal history could also hamper your abilility to get on with a decent company.

All in all I would say you are better off looking at other careers.

 

Not all training companies are the same. I went through Prime's training and was making $600 /wk +, after taxes, just during training. After training, as a company solo driver, my average pay was closer to 1k /wk after tax.

I know you said you already tried applying to prime, so that doesn't really help. I don't know a lot about other companies but did look into both c1 and cre, and was, like you, accepted to both as well but didn't go to either. I would just do a lot of research before you commit to one. A lot of trucking companies don't like investing training in people without stable work history, that might limit your options a little.

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/jobs4newtruckers/

 

I would try Roehl they will get you your license and you dont have to sign a contract with them, I wouldnt worry about your misdemeanor.

 

Millis has good education and equipment

 

millis is the best deal ive heard of. your cdl will cost you exactly $1300. free up front, 1 year contract, $25 per week for the duration of that year. i wouldnt believe the roehl story without checking it out thoroughly...why on earth would any company train you for free and not expect you to drive for them? sounds impossible to be true. but i do hear decent things about roehl too. STAY AWAY from the crooks at cr england, crst, and swift unless youve exhausted all other options. ive worked for none of them...so this isnt disgruntled exworker syndrome. cre and crst...youll find the bad reviews outweigh the good ones by at least 50 to 1. swift has newly implemented policies that force drivers to log longer times for pretrips, and log on duty at shippers and receivers. thats outright theft of service, since they are not paying for that time.

 

Celedon opened a school in Indianapolis.
Roehl, Central Refrigerated, Swift have excellent reputation for "quality" of school.

CLICK HERE for a list of trucking companies that hire new drivers.

 

The info about millis is a little off. If accepted you pay 100 to secure your spot in the class then on the first day you pay 400. They put you in a hotel. After schooling you pay 20 a week for school reimbursement and 10 a week for hotel. You have to get your CDL permit and DOT physical prior to going to class. That cost depends on your state. After school you go out with a trainer for a minimum of 5 weeks you have to log 15000 miles with the trainer before you can test out for your own truck. You will take your CDL test in your home state and you schedule that while with your trainer. You do get paid while with trainer just not while in school. School is 3 weeks and then 3 days of orientation. The cost for the school is 4500. You pay the 500 out of pocket if you work for them for 1 year the forgive 2000 of that. After 1 year of employment with them you have paid 1040 ( 52 weeks times 20 a week). If you left after the 1 year you would still owe 960. If you leave before 1 year you pay the balance of the 4500 minus the 500 and the 20 per week for how ever many weeks you did stay. I currently work for millis and went thru their school. I have zero complaints. I run regional in the Midwest and am home every weekend. Any other questions please feel free to ask or pm me and I can give you my number. I live about 5 minutes from downtown St Louis on the Illinois side.

 

ok...thank you for correcting my error. moral of this story...dont believe one faceless person, even if he says he has personal experience. in this case, someone spelled it out for me, and i believed it, what i posted is what i was told...bad on me. so what you are saying is after 1 year you end up paying $2060 (100+400+1560). the 1560 would be 52 weeks of 30 per week..again if im reading correctly. and then you still owe 960..for a total cost of 3020? guess its not such a great deal after all. certainly not BAD, but not as competitive as id heard.

i went to c1 in indianapolis. cost was $4k if financed, $2k if paid up front (quite awhile ago, im sure numbers have probably changed). i paid up front, so cost of school to me after 1 year of employment at usa truck (or most any other company id chosen) was $800. i was reimbursed $100 per month for private school tuition, fairly standard among the starter companies. so $2000 - 1200 is how i arrive at the $800 cost. but even if id financed $4000, and say it was $4300 after a year of finance charges...total cost after 1 year would be 4300-1200 or $3100. about the same, with no contractual obligation to stay for a year or more at the starter company id chosen.

im back to....private school is the FAR better choice. research and make sure companies hire graduates from the school you choose. but there are private schools out there that will finance the total cost if necessary. this is nearly always a better option than going the company school route.

thank you emt for correcting my error. so mad at myself for believing one person and giving false info as a result. im so stupid sometimes.