How hard is it to get a CDL license? Do you think it's still worth it?

Mondelēz Global LLC,
Montgomery, NY 12549
$1,100 a week
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• Will consider new grads from a certified CDL driving school
• • Home every day
  • Shift: start times vary between 1:00am-4:00am
  • Monday-Friday, occasional Saturday may be required
  • Route: Montgomery, Bronx, Queens, NYC with an average of 13 stops

 

Sysco (several locations in your area are hiring new cdl school grads)
West Babylon, NY 11707
Up to $100,000 a year
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• Recent driving school graduates welcome

 

Continental Carbonic Products
North Haledon, NJ
CDL-A or CDL-B (if you have a CDL-A then can also drive a CDL-B truck)

 

MedTrans (Medline Industries)
Middletown, NY 10940 (Moving to Montgomery, NY Summer 2021)
$27.50 - $29.50 an hour
MedTrans (Medline Industries) is the leading nationwide supplier of medical, surgical and pharmaceutical products to hospitals, nursing homes, HME providers, surgery centers, physician offices, home care/hospice delivering palletized freight. Due to continued growth we are in need of Local Truck Driver CDL A Route Delivery $3,000 Sign-on Bonus

 

Fischer Foods of New York, Inc.
Rockland County, NY based food distribution company seeking energetic, motivated and safety conscious drivers for Tri-State area routes, as well as some longer distance routes requiring overnight stays.

All routes depart our warehouse in the early morning hours, with occasional routes on weekends.
$53,000 - $75,000 a year

 

It’s a solid career and you can make a lot of money if you play your cards right and put in the work. I’m 1 year out of trucking school, which only took 4 weeks at 40 hrs/week, and am grossing $2,100-2,500 per week with good benefits plus safety bonus, boot allowance, etc. However, I work 60-70 hrs per week and have very little time for anything else. But I’m okay with that for now. It keeps me outta trouble.

Don’t worry about automation.

 

What sector of trucking are you in and are you an owner operator or lease driver or company driver?

 

Will still be worth it if one wants to get into it. Automation will mainly be region to region. Distribution center to distribution center. Humans will still be doing the “final mile”

 

When obtained my Cdl back in the mid 90's I was also interested in music trying to pursue a career in both. However, I always made sure that having a trucking job was my main priority & glad I did. Currently working for a Unionized Trucking outfit earning anywhere from $85k to $95k with around 50 to 55 hrs per week. Still able to pursue my hobby of music but that's just a hobby now because there's no money in the business of it as it's more corrupt than most would think. Yes, working for the wrong trucking could be a curve ball but once you obtain a job that you enjoy it makes the time fly by. Autonomous Trucks might be coming in the future (probably another 20 years) but the question with them is 'who's going to tarp, open the doors etc.. for them? If there working via satellites what happens when hackers are involved with online hacking inconveniences? To much variables now to think about with them including all the roads across North America having the proper road reconstruction regarding infrastructure. If you're 33 that's another 32 years before retirement. There's tons of jobs for trucks avg. $25/hr to $30/hr. And like many o/o said they avg. $20K/mth.

 

From what I see, you no longer need to be able to read, write, or drive, so it can't be too difficult.