Indentured Servitude or $6,000?

tommy, I'm not sure of your location but there is an ad on TTR for the Florida Coast Career Tech @ Florida State College at Jacksonville and has tuition pegged at $2,400. I ran a Google search and think some of the links were dead so maybe they're not around any more, but worth looking into if you are close to JAX.

Also, I cannot remember where I found this list, but I copied and saved it. Here are the listings for Florida that offer CDL training;
J-Tech FL Jacksonville, FL
Mid - Florida Tech FL Orlando, FL
National Training Inc FL Orange Park, FL
NBI Truck Driver Training FL Winterhaven, FL
Pinellas Techincal Education Centers (PTEG) FL St Petersburg, FL
Sage / Indian River State College FL Ft Peirce, FL ($4,800 as of Nov 2015)
South Florida State College FL Avon Park, FL
Suncoast Trucking Academy FL Punta Gorda, FL
TDI FL Milton & Sanford, FL
TDI FL Sanford, FL
The CDL School FL Miami, FL

 

By the time I figured paying for school and lodging and food only to hire on with Schneider at 27cpm for 6 months so i would be allowed to try their one year lease program , I still think I am money ahead going with Henderson s company training for a year.

 

You mentioned New Stanton. Are you speaking of Pennsylvania?

 

Yes. They start new classes once a month and from the sounds of it, roughly the 7th or 8th of the month give or take. The one on one instruction is a big draw for me but I have not committed to Sage or any private school for the matter.

 

Well I hope that $0.27 cent offer from Schneider was from 5 or 10 years ago. They told me it would be roughly $0.39 to start. That's pretty good to start and somewhat in line with Prime or others. I think Swift starts at about $0.33 now.

 

Have you called PIA in West Mifflin?

http://www.pia.edu/jumpstart/classes/#commercial-drivers-license/

This is where I went 14 years ago. I feel it was pretty good training.

I think schooling is so expensive in our area because of the gas industry.

 

That's a new one for my list!! Thanks. Never heard of them but I am literally looking at every single option I have.

Any idea of the tuition cost?

 

I do like Hendersons program also.
One of their drivers posted about the 2016 model trucks; refrigerator, direct tv, apu, etc.
Wil-Trans has some good looking trucks too and also associated with Prime.

 

I've kind of created my own rating system and Prime is in the top 5. Everyone may have different needs in a company, but I think Prime would fit my needs fairly well. And I'm hearing some fairly decent comments from people that just went through their program.

 

I have no clue. I think I payed almost $4000 back in 2002 or 2003. Like I said, most likely is expensive due to gas industry. Too bad the prices don't come down with market fluctuations.