Price of getting cdl w/o using driver mill school

disregard.........see the post on Benefits of going thru local Community College. The content that was in this is now on that.

 

Tennessee Tech. center of memphis charges 1266.00 for a 7 week stint.

WIA realy doesn't take that long aslong you got all ya ducks in a row. I was going that route until i got approved Tenn. education lottery scholarship award.

 

thanks for the info. that is a price i'd like to pay. and for WIA, i just sick of waiting for them to make a decision. im unemployed currently as i was laid off so i don't have all year. and i don't want to find something for a month or two and then it looks like im job hopping when i quit them to go to school, ya know?

 

Sounds Good...i'm in the area and Tenn Tech might just be the ticket i'm looking for...That's if i decide to pull the trigger on becoming a truck driver. Wonder what the difference is compared to RoadMaster in West Memphis AR?

 

Yea..i feel ya..i put off going untill tha end of feb. bid mule driver job # my current job, plus i put in a app to go thru a tranning program with tha local railroad. I also just caught wind that greyhound was hiring & they will train me, so i'm shoot for that also..as you see i have a few irons in tha fire..

 

I'd stay away from Greyhound . They get the lowest of lows for passengers . Several drivers have been attacked . A passenger in Canada was decapitated .

 

oh no....

 

Oh yes

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4439183.ece

And

MANCHESTER, Tenn. -- A passenger on a Greyhound bus slashed the driver's throat with a blade, grabbed the wheel and crashed the vehicle yesterday, killing six of the 41 people aboard and prompting the company to temporarily shut down service across an already jittery nation.[/quote]
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/41378_busattack04.shtml

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...s-his-throat-slashed-by-passenger-612985.html

 

Guess that's why they have openings !!!

 

It doesnt help much that most greyhound drivers are very laid back and very nice people. Being nice doesnt help when people are trying to kill you!

I've made good friends with several greyhound drivers, mostly very nice professional people.

Maybe these stabbigns are why all the newer buses have a plastic door around the driver? The plastic door blocks all of behind the drivers head and the front of the bus past the standee line, and when its in the other direction, it blocks the drivers seat.. Hmmm.


FYI some of greyhounds partners are far better places to work. Indian Trails for example, you get home several nights a week, whereas greyhound drivers are mostly OTR and drive 10 hours and then sleep in a hotel. Indian Trails and Greyhound both offer paid CDL training too, and its not a cdl mill.