WIA - a way to pay for your way!

Thanks. Im gonna end up going with either Millis or Central. I just started a job and im gonna save up some money so I can be ahead on some bills before I go. I just wished I could have got the grant and wouldnt owe anybody anything but I would be happy to go with central or millis. They seem like a pretty good companies

 

Are you familiar with Drivers Central? I think they place drivers with Swift..I am not sure how much the tuition is though.

 

Naw I have never heard of them. Swift wont take me because im not 23... If you ever heard of DriveCo in gary, thats the school I wanted to go to...

 

Well....Drivers Central, not sure where they are out of, here is their website http://drivers-central.com/state.cfm?state=Indiana Not sure what it means but on their webpage it states:
"Whether you currently have your CDL license with several years of driving experience, just graduated from trucking school, or are looking for a way to get into the transportation industry, Drivers Central can help you get a truck driver job.
Best of all, our services are provided free of charge for all drivers in Indiana. Apply now and take advantage of the services that Drivers Central provides."

 

How does the financing work with DriveCo?

 

the school cost $4000.they take the wia grant or you can pay cash. You can put down $2000 and pay the rest in monthly installments for 16 months I think or you can pay half at the beginning of class then half which would be 500 towards the middle then the rest at the end of class..check out there website
http://drivecocdl.com/default.aspx

 

Kinda have to laugh a little at this.. I don't check this out much during the week but I feel I owe this one a response right..

Yes, I bid my runs.. Bidding runs means I select the order in which I would like my runs based on seniority - I have enough to hold the same run 5 nights per week which takes some time here.. I do mid 400's per night here on the miles.. Whether I bid a 90 mile run or a 580 mile run it pays the same mileage and hourly rate - took one in the middle because I like it for the most part other than the I95 traffic..

Am I a dockworker or a driver?? Not sure and I question that at times but I suppose since I'm a line-haul loser here I guess I'm both.. I do suppose you're right though - at .555 per mile and 23.55 and hour I'm surely am part of the problem - the nerve of someone to drive for such a measly rate down the highway while getting paid hourly for free things like fuel and traffic is sickening isn't it..lol..

After 7 years here I've concluded one major thing - if something ever happened to this job I would run faster from this industry than Usain Bolt..lol..

Someone who "claims" 10 years of driving should know much better though right???

 

You're welcome............... leech.............

 

Hmm... I see a little bit of hate here... Well, I got turned down by the local Wendy's. I've put in applications everywhere in this podunk town. Nothing. I'm 24 and have next to no work experience in anything.

I guess you could say I'm a displaced homemaker as I was supported by my dad until he died. I'm living with my sister, getting food stamps. I'm so desperate that I applied for disability. If WIA can give me $2500 for my school of choice, then I'll be off their back. I won't need the food stamps and I won't need the disability. I can also start paying the government back their student loans and my tax dollars will go to the Pell grants that I received in college.

Sounds like a win-win to me.

 

Thanks the WIA program in my state, I'm starting my program very soon, can't wait to get started, I'm looking forward to having a skill.