Have a few questions about getting your CDL's yourself through a school.

If you get your CDL on your own by renting a truck and learning the basics, Maverick will hire you without having to graduate a CDL school, and we're flatbed just like TMC (unless you want to do refrigerated or glass which we also have).

I don't know exactly what TMC requires, but if they do require graduating a school, going with Maverick will save you several thousand dollars right off the bat, and there are very few companies who start out as high as Maverick does when it comes to pay.

Feel free to PM me if you have questions, or post your questions in the Maverick forum here:

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/maverick/

 

Prime Inc. has flatbed division. No money needed for their school & they pay you $600.00 a week while riding with a trainer. You may have to sign a contract to work for them a year; in this economy, what's wrong with that? Keep your $7700.00 retirement fund in the bank; some day you will be glad you did.

 

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That's Right On...Keep your money aside for you.Do not give it to a school for a CDL...

 

I third that... Whatever company you choose, don't blow your money on CDL school, because you're not going to get anywhere near your money's worth. I'm $6,000 in debt for mine and they didn't teach me anything noteworthy, except Hours of service, which I could've learned on my own easily.

 

DES or department of economic services or something like that. I just know it as DES. You can get a grant through them. It will probably take a couple if months though. It's worth checking out

 

lol it's Division of Employment Securities

 

Yeah sorry! anyway, every state has something like it. In AZ it's DES but I noticed in other states its sometimes called something else.

 

Millis transfer has its wn school called MTI. There are 4 training sites and one is Trenton OH. It's $2500 For MTI and you have to pay $ 500 up front and they finance the rest. Once you get driving, they deduct $20 a week from your pay. They also charge $2500 for the OTR training of 15000 miles (roughly 6-8 weeks) but if you work at Millis 1 year, they forgive that debt. Check Milis out, there is very little crap talked about them anywhere that I could find.