Best options for a school

Contract Freighters - www.cfidrive.com - coast to coast dry van.
Company-paid Tuition
With a 12-month commitment to drive for CFI, qualified students can now receive fully paid tuition to attend driving school in Missouri. We’ll even cover your room and meals for the duration of the four-week course. Paid transportation from your home to the school in Missouri. Hair follicle drug test.

 

FFE (Frozen Food Express)
KLLM - school in Mississippi (KLLM owns FFE, but two seperate companies)
Schneider - might pay for cdl school; ask a recruiter. A good deal they have is at graduation they put you pulling dry van for about 6 months, then you can switch to tankers which is where the big money is.

 

Roehl Transport pays $500.00 weekly while in their school and it's not a pay advance against future earnings like some companies do. Not sure they take students from Louisiana, but you can call and ask. Choice of flatbed, dry van, refrigerated. Hair follicle drug test.

 

You won't go weeks without work; companies can't afford to let those expensive trucks just sit. If they sit too long, some pencil pusher in the office is going to be fired.
Try to run coast to coast then.
CFI is dry van, but has long runs.
Roehl Transport - Dry Van National Fleet probably the best.
Refrigerated companies that run 48 states usually have consistantly long runs. There are exceptions to the rule. I did real well pulling refrigerated because I also had hazmat endorsement which means I didn't just haul refrigerated freight, but also hazmat freight such as paint or fingernail polish, etc. Some refrigerated drivers might sit waiting for a load, but with the hazmat endorsement I didn't have that problem.

 

$500.00 weekly is while you're attending their cdl school only. After graduation you're bumped up to driver pay.

 

I just graduated from Knight their school is based out of Phoenix, Az they have awesome instructors and give you all the knowledge you need to get your CDL license in only two weeks