Planning on being a new driver after cdl school, Erie Pa area?

You can go to school and get trained there, but it is required that the CDL is issued by your state of residence, meaning that the school will not be able to test and issue the CDL (if they do that normally) to you. You would have to fly home and then test and receive the CDL from your local DMV, it will require you to hire a tractor for the road test portion of the test.

 

You actually can train and test in a different state, you then just need to get it transfered to your home state.(Depending on the state)

 

that is incorrect. You can train anywhere, but no state will issue a license unless you are a resident of that state (and they require you to provide proof of residence).

 

I had a MD license went to trucking school in Indianapolis, IN where the school provided paperwork to the DMV for me to get an Indiana CDL. After 15 days I had my CDL from Indiana and then went home to MD and transferred it there. No problems at all, check with the school and state.

 

Very true, CR England does it that way all the time over in Burns Harbor, IN.

 

Hunter,


As far as work goes in Erie, it's a hard prospect to find anything local right now. I speak from experience. I live just east of Willoughby and was wanting to move back to my home town in Conneaut. Erie was the first place I looked for local work in; to absolutely no avail.

With that said, Ashtabula, Geneva and Madison have a good little bit of local work, but you've gotta pound asphalt to find it. Truckmen, Domino and Wisez are three good examples.

WM is hiring in your neck of the woods, Erie and Rock Creek (in OH) but you'd need 1 years CMV experience to get it- and it's not a great job to be a residential sanitation driver. The one plus about that is your WM locale is all union.



NOW if you want a plethora of work, Cleveland has it without a doubt. I applied to maybe 5 jobs in the downtown/industrial areas and heard back from all 5. Interviewed with all of them and decided they simply weren't worth all the bs they were throwing at the drivers- they were hemorrhaging drivers like a man bleeds from a gun shot to the chest for a reason; they sucked. But it would let you get your foot in the door and moved into the metro.