Are there any trucking companies that offer actual tuition reimbursement?

Only the GI Bill for Vets.

And very specific case by case basis the State may send someone to college via the rehabilitation board to be retrained in something that is not trucking. Arkansas paid two years of my IT learning in college with the goal of gaining a degree and the stipulation that I work in state for 4 years minimum related to IT. (Otherwise I have to pay it back) Ultimately medical disability got worse and I got out of schooling back during the mid 2000's by the third year I was paying my own tuition which added up to about 3000 dollars or so. Spouse got her 4 year and we both had about 46000 in debt for that series. The degree was worthless and the entire spinning money was itself worthless. We sold our home to pay this debt back to uncle sam free and clear so that we were free to collect social security, tax refunds etc as we go into our future.

Tuition was for trucking via the GI Bill for the spouse and also through FFE for a portion of it. FFE failed to finish the last 1800 or so to our trucking school for her. Good thing we caught it in time checking on it with a phone call to the trucking school. They were fixing to go after us in collections on the 6th month. We paid them off cold cash on the phone and that was that. Thought about going after FFE for their oversight of that kind of money but decided it's not worth it. It's paid and done and done. Keep on trucking.

My own Trucking school was a debt to uncle sam for 2500 dollars in cost for tuition there back in the mid to late 80's over 4 months. I paid that off eventually. However I would have had it paid off in two months flat if I did not get crazy with 2500 net income each month. What a ride that was at that young age.

I was eliminated from that trucking job on the third month for wrecking another company truck when a ready mix silo manager ordered me to get that truck out of there and to a silo right now. (Impossible.) so, 20,000 dollars in damage to another truck later and still about 2 hours delay plus a tow out call for that other truck totally ruined the suit manager's day there. Two days later I was fired and that was that. Easy peasy go bye bye fast. (Lesson one...)

In short. You pay. Cash. That's best. And done.

If you sign a promissary note to a company to pay your training and you have to stay with them one year Don't do it. So many people were stupid to sign that and borrow from the company. They run well for two months and something happens on the 3rd month. Next thing they know they are fired, let go, forced to resign or otherwise eliminated from the job and now instantly owe the balance in full with collections and judgement pending against them by the trucking company that fired em for a preventable or three. They are so disposible and used. A company can probably get from Uncle Sam a bunch of money for each.

It's not the best way to get into trucking. But so many students make the mistake of failing to pay cash for trucking school and graduate with the CDL paid for in full. They have to run to a trucking company that will lend money and a promise of free after a year.

What they don't understand is that it's foolish. Because the first year of trucking for any newbie is the most dangerous time ever because they don't know anything, and all the things that could eliminate them from being able to work all that first year or at all.

Then if they do not privately keep up the DOT Medical card, the State sees it become invalid or expired and suspend the CDL and done. A while later that person is told the CDL is no good because they did not keep up the medical exams on their own in between trucking jobs.

They usually find out when they are captured in a regular car during a traffic stop. silver bracelets go on and what a mess. Invalid license.

So many ways to get stabbed in the back.

Just save the 4000 dollars or whatever the trucking school is wanting pay it in cash and graduate with a nice full CDL in your pocket. (Make sure school road tests in a manual, not a automatic truck otherwise the state will slap a restriction against your CDL that says autos only. Which seriously limits your hireablity.

I can go on but I think that's quite enough for this morning.

 

as far as i know, ONLY for CDL schooling. and then too, i do believe that one must work for said trucking company for x amount of time, to get that reimbursement. some companies may pay up after the full amount of time of employment, or monthly, which ever they say they will. and if you quit after x amount of months, into a monthly pay back program, guess what, you end it right there, they will not continue to pay for your CDL loan when you leave.

also, if i recall, once any reimbursements a re paid, and you go to another company and think you're gonna continue that reimbursement, think again. i think the reimbursements start after you graduate, not like 3-6 12 months later. meaning, your first employer.

as far as like in your case, a college degree, unless you are going into some type of employment with THAT degree you get from college, you pretty much have a big nut to crack on your own. i don't even know if any businesses (in the general sector) reimburse anyone, anymore.

 

@ethos completed his degree while driving trucks.
Try to drive tankers after cdl school. The money is good for a new driver right out of school; around $65K to start.
Where is your location; state & nearest city.

 

Here's a couple of companies that hire new cdl grads in Iowa.
You can contact them right now and ask if they will hire from whichever school you plan to attend and if not, which school do they recommend.
Liquid Trucking (www.liquidtrucking.com) and W.W. Transport (www.wwtransportinc.com) are the two companies.
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A big, fat paycheck is the best kind of tuition repayment I can think of.

 

Swift at least used to, not sure if they still do.

Thing is though, don't make that deciding factor. There are a lot of companies out there that hire new drivers that can pay back tuition out of pocket and still make more in pocket by the end of the year.

 

Both UPS and Fedex do. Mostly they're glad to have mature people who will show up for work. I took some classes while working for one of them as an adult and they were more than willing to 'overlook' that I wasn't going to use my degree by staying there and moving up. Most don't unless you're in one of the big hub cities.

 

Why would they reimburse you for a degree you don't need to do the job they hired you to do?