Seeking Advice

Hey friend, does the warehouse that you work at have their own trucks and employ company drivers? If so, talk to the boss and tell him that you want to get your CDL. Hw may be able to help.

 

Passing up this course like this is a mistake if you have the time. Sure you can get the knowledge from books and pass the CDL without going to school but on paper this course might be a deal breaker. What can it hurt? You won't be able to get by on this course alone but to me it looks like a great starter course. Next would be a full CDL course. But lets face it, a full CDL course only teaches you how to get a CDL. The actual driving knowledge comes from the first few weeks on the job. There's some schools that take all kinds of short cuts to get the student a CDL and then closes the course. For example, the school will only teach automatics so no driver has to learn how to shift. And what does the new driver find at his first job? A truck with a standard shift.

If I was starting out again I would love to have this course on my record. A record that might read, This course-CDL school- then on to a company. For you drivers that think this is a waste of time just think back when you were applying on line for a job. A company has only the information that is documented to select a driver or not. Hold up two applications with perfect records. The company looks at both and both are a tie. They know nothing about the driver other than what's on paper. Now hold up the same two applications and one driver has this extra course that includes safety. Who's going to get that job. Now I don't believe in submitting job applications on line unless ask to. I think it's a very lazy way of getting a job and you'll end up at the bottom for sure. But records go with you and having a good mark is a plus.

 

None of us have had that course so we don't really know the answer. I personally never feel education is worthless. If the course teaches you to do a proper pre-trip inspection it is worth something. If they teach you how to log correctly it is worth more. There is even a posting on here about someone who is having trouble passing his permit test. The course would be worth quite a lot to him.

Just being in a place that educates is worth it. Use the time to ask the instructors what trucking is like. Just don't go to any of those drunken parts at Delta House.

 

$40 bucks is well spent if it gets me a job over everyone else. I'm not saying it will but if this guy is doing nothing but working the investment of a college course just might be worth. Hell, I could blow $40 in a bar and get nothing but a hangover.

 

Whatever school you decide on ask this question directly before you agree to anything. Do you train students with automatic trucks. If the answer is yes or they beat around the bush and seem shady KEEP MOVING. It will help you in the long run.

 

For $40, you can't go wrong on this class. How many hours is It? It is what you say, a prep class for getting your permit. The class instructor will be able to answer questions you may have. I don't see any downside to taking the class.

Community college is a good place to go for cdl prep and cdl school. I had a 16 week course for $3,500. Everyone in my class got their cdl by the end of the class, and had a job too.

 

I wish more people had this class at $40. Why? Seems like a lot of people get into trucking by committing to pay for the $4000 class, getting nothing from it, and either find out it is not for them, decide different, or get forced out by bad career or life choices.

This trucking is sold as a career choice that is in demand and about a perfect fit for anyone. Nothing could be further from the truth. If $40 gets a person closer to the insight about trucking without committing to a $4000 dollar debt, I think that is a great deal. Yes the actual tests needed to get the permit are not that hard and we have all done them on our own. But, the ability to ask many of the questions a perspective truck driver can have about how things work and the industry in general is well worth $40.