Going back to Nettts to get my Class A

Blue Ridge Community College has a tractor trailer school in Verona Virginia, $500.00 for five weeks. Do you know anyone in Virginia who would let you use their address for the time it takes to get your CDL and transfer it to another state?

 

I'm real interested in how you do with NETTS. Are you going to go in CT or RI? Keep us posted. Personally the cost there scares me, $7k for a CDL is insane.

A cheaper alternative (to fulltime) would be something like Crowder College in Missouri, which has a good rep. (I hear) and is $3000 & $476 for the dorm room, if you want one. Four (fulltime) weeks vs. 20, also.

 

I was accepted to the program but didn't want to start off in debt once I graduated. $7k is a BIG investment that takes food off the table at home. I was able to get $1400 worth of grants which only brought my cost of the school down minimally. I think they really powdercoat everything there just to get you in and get your money. I'm not speaking from first hand experience though. I never went back after my financial aid meeting because they couldn't answer my questions and kept giving me the run around. All they wanted to know was how much I could pay them every week. And they didn't want to give me a tour of the place or show me around at all to get me familiar with the site. I guess I was inconviencing them wanting to know where to go my first day.The only good thing about the loan is that you don't have to start paying it back until after 6 months of your graduation date at a small interest rate. Still wasn't enough for me to want to do the program there. I would also have to work full time for 20 weeks while trying to do the school and drive 1.5 hours each way to get there. I decided that I would go to a company's training instead.

Saw a lot of swift, c.r. england posters with personal phone numbers written on them, which told me that those recruiters are going in there and grabbing the new grads. Not companys I'd want to go with, but to each their own.

If you do decide to go, best of luck to you. I hope it all works out for ya, but wanted to tell you what I decided after meeting with them. Best of luck with gettin' your CDL!

 

If going to NETTS take the short program. Its 160 hrs and thats what employers want to see plus you can get on with a lot of the training companies. If you have the money going to CROWDER IN MISSOURI would be excellent and while your there apply to conway/cfi(or before you goto school). I was going to goto them but because I went through the Teamsters Driving School(instead of NETTS) they called me back and canceled my orientation date because Teamsters use 28ft trailers. The Training was good and we pass more then the NETTS guys but having a tough time getting on with a decent otr company sucks. Best of Luck keep us posted.
Ps. If you get laid off or aren't working full time check with DLT(networkct) about their grant program. Thats the one I went through when I got Laid off this winter. You do some research, take there assessment test and get approved. They help pay for a portion or all of the tuition. NETTS will tell you to take the long course but all you need is the 160 hrs. Focus hard on your Air breaks procedure and maneuvers. School gets monotonous but those that keep
working hard pass the first time. Those who start to slack and take time off DONT. Work Hard Best Of Luck.

 

Green, I was reading and replying to some of JasonTruckers post about his training in PA. As I went back in to the thread I saw a few were from you as well. I'm curious why you changed your mind on going with Schneider's training and are going to NETTTS instead? I want to go with Schni for my training in my CDL, but you decided against it for your own training. I'm curious if you knew something about it that I don't? From the looks of things you went to a job fair where they were there. Did they say something to you about not getting training with them? I'm just curious.

Thanks in advance!

By the by-
I do know a guy in the training at NETTTS and he's liking it there. I just personally don't have the time to drive, or $$ to be able to make it through their training, which is why I didn't end up going.

 

No, ask nettts if you get the certificate for the advance course. If they say yes then you'll be ok. Also, have them started getting you prehired with companies before you graduate. If you graduate from nettts you can apply to superior carriers out of springfield,Ma(tanker outfit,great pay). Keep us posted.

 

Best of luck also look into Sage schools I dont know where the closes one is but the are ptdi certified and 1 on 1 drive time i'm told.