Begining my CDL journey HELP

Robertson's Ready Mix has in-house cdl training and a job.
It's a pretty big outfit.
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Diamond Line Delivery Systems Inc. has "dock to driver" program and a terminal in Ontario.
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CEMAK Trucking hires with CDL-A Permit and will help you complete the CDL-A process.
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• Address: 3252 E 70th St, Long Beach, CA 90805

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Dot Transportation in has tuition reimbursement if you attend a private cdl school.
Most terminals offer local/regional/OTR/flex schedule.
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I have missed much. However the few days we have arranged in various places, particularly with parents in the tidewater when I stash the 18 wheeler, grab wife and have a christmas dinner in the old style once more before one of them passed.

The flame of that memory of a happy week near the ocean was the motivation to put that truck into the ocean bridge and get to it with Arizona pending.

But I missed much.

One rule I always had with everyone left (Meaning others fell away out of our lives) was that when we get home, we get one day to stop being truckers. I cannot explain the attitude I get come over me when it's time to take 40 ton out and roll it or have rolled it a little too long and want out. Im a monster. Not nice. best left alone.

I learn to be a son again, to be a husband or whatever it may be. I'll be more than happy to grab the children (Nephews and nieces) and run off a game they understand just to leave off the work and the weight.

And the dispatchers, bless them but they must wait. Surely they have the hands of 20 more lost and wandering waifs to hold across this land instead of calling us on time off.

 

To do this program you must work the dock for 6 months and have a good attendance record. They will send you to their CDL school and you will make hourly pay while in school. They pay for your school. You can also work the dock when at school. I think starting now is $18-20. Think top out on dock is $24. Maybe more or less not 100%. You will become a city p&d driver. M-f daytime local no weekends after school.

 

Got my own CDL without school in november '18. Got first job with "zero" "commercial experience." 2nd job with "3weeks" experience. Im going to pick up truck #3 from employer 3 over the weekend and will be running it OTR as if i was an OO.. So im contract driver for the owner and he is leasing onto numbers of a buddy of mine. Paperlog, 12.7 and 13spd midroof western star, fuel card, emergency credit card, prepass. They asked what i wanted for a trailer. "Spread stepdeck with dumps." Poof, it has been rented. "What size tarps do you want?"

Yes, it can be done. I am wanted back at job 1 or 2 "any time" if it doesnt work out. Im not trying to brag, but to encourage. Will you do what needs done to generate income for all parties? If yes, the industry has a place for you.

None of this is a flashy or easy life, or a thing worth envy. The list of things ive had to do and endure is very very long and it is not something everyone can do. But it can be done. Whether YOU can or cannot is up to you. Not this forum, not those trainers, not the megas, the recruiters or the bears. You and you alone. So make a decision and stick to it.

 

Okay its been 5 minutes. Have you decided yet? Life is too short for indecisive and trucking wont tolerate it.

If you are in, go to the dmv and get a paperback CDL manual. Get your highlighter, take a few rounds of online "practice test" and then start reading the book. When you see the answer to a familiar question highlight. Then read it all over again a few times.

When you know it inside out, go take your A +air +combo permit test for INTERstate commerce and report back. No one worth talking to thinks youre worth talking to until you get that permit. Then get your medical card for interstate transport. That segregates you from the crowd. Self initiative.