SoCal, Looking at getting into CDL driving

Easy to make over $50K right out of school.
Where are you in Southern California?

 

Check with Foodliner. This company hires new cdl grads from accredited cdl schools. List of terminals is on the website.

• Less than 12 months Class A Truck Driving experience, requires a Truck Driving School Certificate, and Extended Training
• NEW PAY PACKAGE:
  
  $22.00 Per Hour---Driving
  
  $18.50 per hour on duty time
  
  $1250 a week guarantee.
  
  Class A CDL Company Truck Drivers
  
  Foodliner, Inc. is one of the largest bulk food carriers in the country and a Transport Topic Top 100 carrier. We are looking for Professional Class A Truck Drivers to join our team. Our current driver averages $70,000/year with the potential to make $80,000/year or more!
  
  
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Pacific Tank Lines is a new, rapidly growing company with locations in San Diego, Huntington Beach, Long Beach, Van Nuys, Sylmar, Bakersfield, Fresno, Las Vegas, Riverside and Atlanta Georgia. We offer excellent opportunities for safe, service oriented drivers. We provide some of the best pay in the industry. Drivers receive superb training. We supply drivers with state of the art equipment and an excellent working atmosphere.

Note: the ads say "12 mos experience preferred", not "12 mos. experience required."

 

If you get tired of the high cost of living there; come on out to Nevada. Seems half the cars I see have California tags and they're in residential areas, not in the tourist areas. Many are parents taking their children to the same schools where mine go. No state income taxes and no food taxes.

 

I say, get your cdl from an independent school. That way you aren't stuck somewhere you aren't happy at trying to work out an over-rated contract with the company that schooled you for a cdl.. in other words stay away from company paid schools. Just my opinion of course.

 

Schneider has the Military Apprenticeship Program and also pays for cdl school. If you attend a private cdl school and pay for it yourself, Schneider will reimburse the tuition back to you at $200.00 monthly up to $7000.00
Probably make the most money in their tanker division. They also have an intermodal division near you hauling containers out of the rail yards and sea ports.
"Truck drivers earn up to $75,000 per year* and get home daily in this Local Intermodal CDL driver position. Intermodal truckers haul 99% no-touch freight containers — 80% drop-and-hook — in and out of the rail yards within 100 miles of San Bernardino, CA. In fact, a truck driver’s day begins and ends at the rail yard. Start your Local trucking career in Schneider’s Intermodal division today!"

• Credit for Military Experience and Military Apprenticeship programs, plus more military benefits
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• Personally, I'd rather pull tankers than intermodal, but that's my opinion.

 

Some cdl schools have night or weekend school. This is for people that need to keep their current job while attending cdl school.
I only know of 2 companies that pay while attending their cdl school and they're Roehl Transport and Online Transport. Problem is, I don't think they hire in California.
Robertson's Ready Mix is all over Southern California and has their own cdl school. Don't know if they pay or not. You'd be local working there.