disqualified from attending a trucking school...

Rockyfortune , keep looking. You'll find something. You might checkout community colleges in your area. I went to a community college in NC and it was cheap ( $210 in 1992). And I tested there for my cdl. One minor wreck and no ticket shouldn't derail your plans. You need to call several more companies and see what they accept for a driving history. Good luck.

 

Wanna bet? Plenty of newbies with perfect driving records. That's why companies can be so picky now.

 

Rockyfortune, one thing I learned in 20 years of trucking. There are drivers who like to kick a guy when he is down. Call a few companies and let us know what you find out. Again. Good luck.

 

I have a suspension on my license that was less than a year old when I got my CDL and I was pre-hired be a half dozen companies before I even finished school.

To get a copy of your Driver Record you go to your local DMV and pick up a copy. Some states even allow you to get a copy on line. If you have had licenses in a few states you can just call your local insurance agent and they will tell you for free and they will also tell you stuff insurance company share that is not on your driving record. They have to do this under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

There are no DOT standards or requirements for the training of CDL drivers only testing. You can walk into the DMV in your hometown and pick up the study manual, study the manual, pay the fees, and take the test. You will however need a truck to do the road test in and that's it.

Most companies that hire student drivers have a standard which is normally 150 hours from an accredited school. Every company is different so call around to a few companies you are interested in and see how many hours they require.

Why the short course vs. the long course:

Some students already have their class B and have been driving for sometime.
Some students are laid off or unemployed and need to receive min. required hours to find a job and return to the work force.
Some students have jobs and take the longer course to work it into their schedule
Some students want the full training and practice to have more jobs available to them and feel comfortable with the skills

Company sponsored training vs. non-company sponsored training

Their are far to many reasons to explain here why company sponsored/paid training is a very bad idea, if you really want to know there are a lot threads on this web site alone explaining the down falls and horror stories driver have been thru fulfilling those contracts.

So I will explain some of the benefits of attending a non-company sponsored schooling path.

1. Most accredited schools have FASFA and other financing options. Some state labor agencies even have free money.
2. Most schools offer lifetime job placement and normally know who is hiring locally before it is even advertised.
3. Most schools will have you pre-hired before you even finish schooling
4. If you attend a non-company sponsored training you receive all of the tax credits and deductions and NOT the company. Like tuition, books, maps, clothes, pens & pencils, notebooks, cost of a laptop/computer, cost of a printer, ink, paper, cost of the medical exam, permitting fees, meals, travel expenses, etc..
5. Normally you will start with a higher CPM rate than drivers coming out of their own school.
6. Most companies have tuition reimbursement up to $10,000 which is paid directly to you weekly or monthly with no contract.
7. You can leave the company anytime you want because you owe them ZERO!
8. When you are in school you may find you like hauling something different than what you thought or you may receive better job offers. You are not locked into one company for the next 12-15 months so you can do whatever you want.

 

Does not matter if you hit the other vehicle, rubed against it, or what. You made contact with another vehicle, it is a accident. You did it and you want to point blame elsewhere. Dont ask you why she reported it? You damaged her vehicle, regardless it is was only a rub or scratch, you still hit her. She is protecting her property, she is not to blame you are.
Second, try getting the chip off your shoulder. It appears that you wish to belittle those who tell you the truth. If you wanted a bunch of people to synpathize with you, you got the wrong place.
Bottom line, you got into a fender bender (accident), deal with it and take responsibility for it. Keep looking, and maybe you have a chance. Good luck.

 

You have a recent accident on your record that resulted in following too closely I'm sure. Can't do that in a truck, and that's all employers are gonna think when they see that. That's a pretty decent barrier to entry for this field, you'd be lucky to get into a bottom feeder company. The problem is, you got rejected by the school of THE bottom feeder company. CR England is where you go if you just got out of prison or flipped your last truck. I'm not trying to attack you, but there may be more of your history than you've admitted here.

I've seen a few hard luck cases about people with some kind of record looking for work on these forums, but the thing with you is, you seem to have no investment or real need to enter this industry. If your records as clean as you say it is, get another trade where you're not going to start with a barrier to entry. Hell, you can come back in 3 years if things don't work well and you're still interested, but from what you've said in your posts, you don't really have a good reason to need to try to jump this hurdle.

tl;dr You got rejected from CR England. That's really bad in this industry...

 

Is this a continuation from your other thread, in Bad trucking companies? Did not like the answers there, so you thought you would try here?

 

One thing I learned here . The majority of newbies fail within a year resulting in a turnover rate of over 100% but there are always drivers that will encourage wannabes to become the next victim of bottom feeder abuse .

 

Many reasons. Perhaps one's job history is not continuous enough. Criminal record, driving record, references (or lack of), previous employer reference and comments, poor written and/or grammar skills on the application or an incomplete application lacking the requisite information, low test and driving skills scores from school, the school isn't properly accredited or approved, the school didn't provide enough hours to satisfy the carrier ... there are many more reasons companies disqualify individuals directly out of school.