Don't need home time, love the NYC area, have a rice cooker.

The 80 hour course limits the companies you can drive for.

Find a company that seems like a good employer, THEN decide how to get licensed. You may find a good company that pays for your CDL. I don't recommend going to CDL school and then looking for a job, especially if you borrow money for school. School will occupy all of your time and the payments start very soon thereafter .

 

The problem with the 80 hr. school is many companies can't hire you do to insurance rules.
Since you want lots of time off for your other job, sign up with a temp agency that hires cdl drivers. This way, you work when you want to and taking time off won't hurt you as it will with a trucking company. Trucking companies will make you go through the whole job application process over and over, every time you take extended time off, and will eventually won't deal with you at all. This isn't a problem with temp agencies.

 

It is the same thing except more gears to go through.

 

Yes you do have to unlearn the bad habits but better yet start learning how to learn, it is a good skill that serves you well in anything. It is a trick but you have to compartmentalize things and base all the instructions on that.

I used to be a temp driver and drove all kinds of junk ... ah I mean trucks and there wasn't anything I couldn't drive. I learned every truck had its quirks and you learned how to drive it as it is an individual, not just a truck. Even now I can think of which WS or Ford or Junkliner had to driven all different from each other. It was how I did things and taught a few drivers who would listen how it works.

 

Don't know of any temp. services that provide training.
C.R. England gets lots of bad press, but it works for some people. I have seen ads where they will train you for a cdl if you sign a 6 mos. commitment. Don't know if that's still in effect or not.
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V3 Transportation hires drivers with only a CDL permit. The training is done on the road with an experienced driver, not in a classroom. Maybe V3 can team you with a trainer.
Job Requirements:
Contract us at www.deosvia.com
TEAMS NEEDED:

• Husband and Wife teams
• Friend and friend
• cousin and cousin

IF you have a FULL CDL A or B and friend only has a CDL A or B Permit. We can get you into a straight truck with sleeper that you can train with and become a full team! You take the truck home!