Considering dropping CC training for company paid training

I'd finish the free school.
You can apply to trucking company cdl school while you're in the free South Carolina school.
If you're accepted, then can drop out of the South Carolina school.
I wouldn't do that though at this point. Try to finish and get the CDL.

 

The Feds took over cdl training and changed the rules.

 

I agree. It's definitely best to stick it out. Honestly, you won't learn that much in any CDL school..most of them will teach you to pass the test. The majority of what you'll learn is going to be when you get out on the road with a company.

 

Yep, most of the useful training came after I got hired. I spent a month out on the road with a trainer, and it’s where I learned how to back a trailer, do trip planning, deal with shippers and receivers, and all the little stuff that makes up being an OTR driver.

 

Stay where you’re at as the others have said.

The actual costs at a training company are astronomical..insane.

If you were to quit, get fired or leave for another reason then you’re still on the hook for the money owed.

If you got free training and eventually pass that’s all that counts. Don’t be critical of the school just get-r-done and move on.

There’s probably a great many in this forum that wish they could have gotten training for free..be grateful you’re not paying $8k enslaved to a nanny carrier.

If you got about $5,500 to shell out without it killing you then sign up with Sage Truck Driving School.

 

Absolutely. Stay in school. All that CDL says when you graduate is that you're likely not to kill anyone.
The trucking companies will teach you how to drive.

 

The above 2 posts are spot on -- stay where you are, & finish the curriculum at the free CDL school -- if at all possible.

Then you enter the CDL world without any obligations to any specific carrier -- it's then truly a "level playing field" for you -- instead of endentured servitude.

-- L

 

Just to preface my comments, right now it is a carrier's employment market, no matter what school you go to or what your claim is that you can or can't do somehthing, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of drivers out there who will fill the gaps before either marginal drivers or new drivers will be accepted. We have too many drivers right now, as we still have a large over capacity issue which affects all of us in our business.

How did you come up with your expectations? I mean it is provided to you through the taxpayers so stick with it.

I doubt it, it isn't what it appears to be, it is very dangerous work, just because you can "drive" a truck doesn't mean you can actually drive a truck as a professional.

Why would you think that? The CDL program should be more more intense, more mechanical and more legal. The practical test should not be a simple backing up or a simple road test.

They are supposed to push as many as possible, this is a free program that has to maintain a minumal level of educating people, so yes it is going to push.

OK, so?

How do you know?

No, it could be the same.

What do you mean? Free Agent? what does that mean?

If you depend on trucking to be a job, go to McDonalds, because right now jobs are not being offered to anyone breathing and can hold a steering wheel.

Get over it, this will be more and more the norm and it is because of crap drivers out there.

Yep - STICK TO IT. Find a company that is willing to fill in the gaps and take driving seriously, which I don't think you are.