Get my CDL through a company or local school

If you're making good money keep doing what you are right now.

 

I would either continue what you're doing, or take advantage of the offer and go to a private CDL school.

If you go through company CDL school, you have to work it off, which means eating all of their BS until that year is up. I made it 8 months and owe the balance.

It's worth it to me though. Even with only 8 months experience, it took me only 2 days to find a local driving job, and I live in an area where jobs aren't what I'd call abundant.

Good luck.

 

The company you work for now will pay $3K for you to attend cdl school. What's the deal with that? Do they want you to work for them afterwards?
Where is your location; maybe there's some other ideas floating around.

 

Okay.

 

Are you interested in anything other than hauling for Amazon?
Plenty of good jobs that hire Oregon new cdl graduates.
Space Age Fuel is one of a dozen or more. If you pay for the cdl school yourself, they'll reimburse the tuition back to you.

 

One thing to consider, if you go home the local schools a lot of times they are negotiable on the charge. If it's not a nationwide training school, or done through University I would be very surprised if they didn't compromise to 3500 or even 3,000 if you offered to pay it upfront.