PDTI - Just another 4-letter word?

I'm counting it being worth something as our school is PTDI certified.

 

I go to All State in Baltimore. There are 3 of these schools. The curriculum is 480 hours (about 5 1/2 months) Its broken down into 2 sections, first is 200 hours of indoor class (a few trips out to the trucks for simple backing, pre-trip and coupling) The second part is 280 hrs of range work. Pre-trip, straight line backing, sight side and blind side parallel docking with vans as well as tanker. We also do 24 road trips.

Our instructors are also certified for the MD MVA CMV testing, which they take very seriously.

If you can do a PTDI school, the I would recommend that you go for it. They are not cheap, but because of their ratings you can (the school should help you) get Pell grant money as well as low interest loans.

You're paying for a career.

 

I've answered in your comments, ok?

 

Don't you people read threads like this ? http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...ews/94584-trucking-loses-7-500-more-jobs.html . These are jobs that were eliminated . They don't count the jobs drivers quit . With tens of thousands of jobs lost in the industry what kind of opportunity do you think there is ? Companies keep hiring because drivers keep abandoning trucks due to low pay and poor working conditions . Ask a school recruiter how many trucks carriers hiring students have added to their fleet in the last year . Isn't Werner hiring students ? This is what you find in their third quarter report

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3562484
Covenant 3rd quarter report stated

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS222613+26-Oct-2009+PRN20091026
Check other companies financial reports and you'll read more of the same .
Less and less trucks , more and more wannabes . What's wrong with this picture ?

 

Werner is still hiring students, still training students. Millis is training and hiring. Stevens starts classes every Monday.

Several companies are dumping their older trucks, getting new.

I talked with one of the former students from my school. He made $42K in the last 12 months at Crete. They are getting new trucks. Even some of the newbies are getting them.

 

My school is PTDI certified. We only do 216 hours.

Not sure what the qualifications are.

1. Pulling a loaded trailer.

2. Driving at night.

We have to log our training in log books.

My school was at Tennessee Tech. $1400 I paid for my license, physical and drug screen.

36 days of classes.