HELP!!!! Company sponsored CDL training!

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Just stay away from CR England.

 

Depends on your location; state & city.

Southern Refrigerated Transport has their own CDL school and furnishes bus ticket, hotel room and 3 meals a day. Might have to explain the gap in employment such as a notorized letter that you were a stay-at-home step-dad.

Let us know where you live and maybe others have some ideas for you.

 

In regard to the gap in your employment, I'd suggest calling each of the companies that offer CDL training & asking them how they'd have you handle it. While my gap was much smaller than yours (couple of months), the company I started with (not a CDL training company) had me have a friend/family member write a letter regarding my unemployment. I believe I had to have it notarized. With yours being considerably longer, I don't know if a company would take the same route. Again, just need to ask them directly.
As for meals & such while in school, that's another thing to ask about while ya got them on the phone. And I see someone's already warned ya about CR England.
Another route you might try is to get on with a moving company. When I was researching getting into trucking, I read about how some guys ended up training to drive while working with movers. However, by going that route you wouldn't have the school diploma/certificate & it seems a lot of (most) companies want that from new drivers for insurance purposes. Of course, if you stayed with the moving company a couple years, lift not be a problem later. But I'm guessing.

 

Just posted something about this yesterday... Yes, I had to have 2 notarized letters from two different people about my unemployment for Swift.

 

SW, I see a lot of parallels in your situation and where I was last fall. Although many will tell you, and I agree, that it isn't the optimum means to getting into the industry, I went the Driver Solutions way because it fit my situation. So far I've no regrets. At no cost to me I was schooled, hired and making more money than I ever anticipated making my first year. I tested for and got endorsements for doubles triples, tankers and Hazmat and am receiving bonus checks for the latter and reimbursed for expenses incurred up to $100. I stay out for six weeks at a time, pay no rent or mortgage and am saving nearly all that I make. Some call it being used for a year, maybe, but I see it as takng a fantastic opportunity to enter professional driving with almost zero outlay of cash and within a matter of weeks seeing an income of what I expected would take two years to see. Good luck man. It's awesome OTR. It's work, but very rewarding. Hope this helps. Good luck!

 

Let's hear it for big mistakes in Life, of which I've made several.

As Rev mentioned, you need to get family and friends etc. to write letters to document your periods of unemployment.
And yes, they need to be notarized.
I had to do that.

No one is going to front you the money to eat and sleep while in school, so you will need some money to get started.
Unless you can swing some sort of govmint grant, you'll need a job in the mean time.

Fast food is an option, but not a good one.
Try to get a job as a waiter in a little local place. Most places will train you, and if you can get into a decent place the tips will be good enough for you to save some money.

 

Stay away from crEngland

don't pay more than 4k for school

prepare to be massively exhausted your first week out

stay away from swift

get your pilot and loves rewards cards so you can get showers

refuse to start below .30 cpm

 

Yes, do all of that.

And never see a first pay check.