Question About The WIA Program

I Was Doing Some Research About The WIA Grant Program And I've Noticed It Says If Approved They'll Pay For Your CDL Training At A Trucking School. Does It Work The Same Way With A Company? For Example If I Were To Get Approved Instead Of Going To A Private School For My Training, Would The Grant Allow Me To Go To A Company Like Prime Inc For Training? I Know Prime Has There Own Program But I Want To Know Will The Grant Pay For It Or Is It Just For Private Schools

 

WIOA pays for private or community college cdl schools.
Roehl Transport actually pays you to attend their cdl school in Conley,GA. They pay you $500.00 a week and furnish lodging and meals during cdl school.

 

The school you go to has to be on the approved WIOA list. If they are not on the list, they won't pay for it.

 

Thanks For The Reply You Guys. Hopefully The Department Of Labor Could Give Me A List Of Approved Schools

 

In Ohio I had to go to my counties unemployment office to get it. Not sure how it works in GA. Good luck.

 

WIA paid for my CDL school several years back.
The 'if you qualify' part was very important. I had to convince them that I could not be gainfully employed in the job field that I had lost.

Back then it was a pretty unique field, that of desktop video production.
With the advances in that area at that time it meant that cheap video editing and production was now available to the masses.
Digital replaced analog, and came at a much cheaper price. (Less quality as well, to this day. But no one cares.)
A $25,000 video editing workstation went down to a simple PC that cost less than $4,000 with all the bells and whistles. It is even much cheaper today.

I was the person at the company that designed and built every system.
We were a small 4 man operation in Aurora, CO that did 1.2 million per year, supplying to the local TV stations and smaller videographers.
Needless to say, when that market dried up there was nothing left to that field of work.

And I'll bet that none of the current generation has ever seen true quality video and audio.
Most of the stuff these days can't even keep the video in sync with the audio, not to mention the aspect ratio.

Just as audio did with the advent of the CD digital, so has gone video with digital.
Nothing can replace true analog for quality.
And the sad thing is, most of you will never know what you are missing.

Especially with audio.
The pinnacle was reached with 4 channel discrete quadraphonic back in the day.
The pinnacle of that was probably Mantovani. Classical stuff.
Recorded on 20 tracks and mixed down to two or four, discrete four channel being the ultimate.

Digital sampling can never achieve the true quality of continuous analog. There are always missing bits that are not sampled. And those little bits are so important!

 

The truck school will need to have met certain criteria to be eligible for WIA funding. They sign an agreement with the WIA program. Therefore, it must be an approved school. I will second the notion that the "if you qualify" part is important. You must be able to demonstrate 1) that you can successfully complete the program, and 2) you can become gainfully employed after the State makes an investment in you.

I know this from experience. The WIA program--you know, what some people call wasteful government spending--this program took me from contributing nothing to society, to making $70k a year in a job I like. It's given me a career, and the chance to have a life and to provide for my family.

1) You must be able to successfully complete the program. They will not fund you if you go in there telling them you are homeless and living in a car. They probably won't fund you if you tell them you don't have reliable transportation. They will drug test you, background check you, and see if you have warrants or even pending criminal litigation against you. Once that is done, proceed to step 2.

2) You must be employable. This comes in the form of pre hire letters from a few mega carriers. If you have any issue with this, kiss the opportunity goodbye. But maybe not. When I was doing this, they tried to arbitrarily deny my funding because I was on probation for a misdemeanor. Nobody would give me pre hire letters because of the informal probation. It was the stupidest snag, that almost cost me a career. I then remembered, I had an uncle in Arkansas who owned a small trucking company. He told the EDD he would hire me, and that satisfied the pre hire requirement. This was technically legal, since he very well could have hired me. In all seriousness, I had no intention of working for him, and the caseworker knew it-- but we satisfied the requirement.

As a bonus, here is #3) Harassment is key. The squeakiest wheel gets the grease. You're going to bother these people until they are so frustrated ,they fund your license to just rid of you. Call them to "check the status" every single day. If they don't answer, call them back. E-mail them. Walk the fine line between persistence and getting a restraining order filed against you.

You can do it my man! The WIA grant was the turning point in my own life, I wish you much success in your future career.

 

Thanks Man. I Just Want To Better Myself And Be Successful

 

How Does It Work With The MVR? I've Only Had My L's For 2 Months. It Wasnt Because I Couldnt Get Them, It Was Because I've Always Had A Ride To Where Ever I Needed To Go So I Just Never Went And Got Them. Am I Still Eligible With My MVR Only Linking Back For 2 Months?

 

Comment, then a question.

They can't check any further back than how old your license is. No problem there, but it might give pause that you are such a new driver.
Driving a big rig isn't to be taken lightly. It is much more difficult than a little 4 wheelie. Jumping into this line of work with so little experience behind the wheel could be bad for both you and the company.

The question is... why do you capitalize every single word of your posts?