What is a good truck driving company that pays you while you are CDL training if you can't afford a truck driving school?
There are numerous options available to you should you want to obtain a class A, and get paid at the same time, depending on where you live.If you reside in or around a large city, the options available are obviously greater in number.My first suggestion would be to research local LTL carriers (less than load). The list of LTL carriers include ABF, UPS, Yellow, Holland, Saia, Roadway, and many others.LTL companies offer delivery of freight to local businesses that do not require a full trailer of freight. It’s basically the same thing you see your post office or small UPS trucks do, but with pallets (larger freight) instead of letters or small packages.A city LTL driver has multiple deliveries each day to local companies that have one or more palletized items. Once they are finished with their deliveries, they then proceed in picking up pallets of various freight items from multiple places. These positions are usually a M-F, daytime gig, with weekends off, and you are home every night. These jobs usually have great benefits and larger hourly wages.LTL companies also offer “linehaul” positions. These drivers most often drive at night from terminal to terminal. Their trailers contain freight that the “city drivers” picked up earlier in the day that needs to be delivered in different cities or states. The “linehaul” positions generally offer good wages and weekends off.LTL also offers dock work/forklift positions to unload and load trailers.Some LTL ‘s offer training centers. They will have you work on their dock, operating a fork lift while they teach you to drive a truck and get your CDL. Wages are high, you are home daily, and you would automatically stay with the company and drive for them once the training is complete.I wish that they had this option available when I was trying to get my license. Had I been told to make a delivery downtown in any city immediately after receiving my license from the tradition school I attended, I would’ve probably cried. With an LTL, on-site school, these drivers are taught the skills needed in order to make those difficult deliveries.With the wages they offer, the ability to have a good quality of life, and the high level of training, a local LTL school/carrier would be my first suggestion to any person who would like to get their CDL and get paid while doing so.
Is CR England a good trucking company?
I hate short answers but…NO.Every New Guy Leaves After Ninety Days. Seriously, that's the backronym the rest of the industry has come up with for them. They have a reputation of not sufficiently training new drivers, pressuring them into leasing a truck through them, then pressuring the rookie “owner” into becoming a trainer and perpetuating that sad cycle, and then yanking the rug out from under the poor SOB and making sure he has no choice but to surrender the truck…so they can stick some other poor SOB into it. They actually make significantly more money from leasing trucks to drivers than they do from actually moving freight.Run away while you still can. If you're new, call around and ask about the company's training. Specifically, ask if they run trainer trucks like a team. If the answer is yes, RUN. If the trainer is required to log on duty while the student is driving, then they may be worth further consideration. As far as I know, Werner and CFI both still run that way, as does my company, National Carriers out of Irving TX. They're out there, just gotta do a little digging. I did my training and first five years with Werner, and while they do have a reputation as being strictly for newbies (We Employ Rookies No Experience Required) they weren't bad to work for at all. Not a bad place to get your start.As much as I hate sounding like a recruiter, NCI (my guys) actually treats everyone like a human being, and I for one ain't leaving anytime soon.Google “CREngland class action lawsuits” for some really interesting reading.Disclosure: I have never worked for CRE, am not in any way related to anyone who has, and have nothing personally to gain or lose from anyone going to work for them or not doing so. I did once train a driver who worked for them briefly but that's it.
Is there any trucking company that is nationwide that train people to drive?
As Rick Klugman says, there are several out there who will pay your way through CDL school (in return you'll have to haul their freight for a period of time, usually two years). The problem is, you've got to be very, very careful of which company you decide to sign up with. Some of these companies will try to get you into a lease-purchase program (which I strongly suggest not doing) which will have you eating Ramen noodles for the next couple of years. Some others will simply chew you up and spit out your shriveled, worn-out carcass. Most of them don't do a very good job of training, leaving you woefully unprepared for taking the road as a solo driver.Fortunately there are some companies which will do right by you: Schnieder comes to mind, as does USA Truck (who I started out with). The bottom line is that you should definitely do your research so that you don't get one of the bad companies.
What's a good company paid truck driving school to get good experience and my CDL A license?
Have to agree with the others on this. Go to your local Job and Family Services and see if you qualify.If you go company route your going to be on the hook for the money even if they shit can you.I paid out of pocket, roughly 5 grand with C1 Driving Solutions in Indianapolis. The school itself was a bit of a joke but paying for it myself did grant me some control over the process. Down side was that the company had no reason to give me a second chance when I made a mistake so they just gave me my bus ticket and sent me on my way.This was all 10 years ago and things have changed but as it is, I always recommend trying the government paid route if you can.Roadmaster is another school you can look at and I think it's qualifies under the JFS policies.Just make sure you learn with a standard transmission instead of an automatic, I've heard tell that DOT is creating special endorsements to differentiate whether a driver is qualified to drive standard or not. Could just be trucker BS you hear around the truck stop but might not be, either way if you can drive stick you can do auto but not the other way around from what I've heard.
What company is the best for truck driving?
Thats a hard question to answer. You're asking a subjectuve question of many, and everyone has their own opinion on what they want in a company. Some guys are perfectly happy hauling basic dry van loads for KnightSwift transportation, others would rather drive for a flatbed carrier like TMC transportation.Me personally i love my company because it pays well, but many guys refuse to drive for us because we done have peterbilt or kenworth trucks.In order to answer your question, you will need to give use an idea what your looking to haul, and what kind of money you want to make
Which company is better, may trucking or werner?
I am a driver with a year experience and just left Schnieder due to a lack of miles. I want know which one will run me the most and which one will not **** me. I live in Califonia and am ex military.
What are some company-paid truck driving programs or schools to get good training & knowledge & to get your Class-A CDL?
I want to go into truck driving but, I don't know which programs are good, I did some research & seen some reviews & some of them said stay away from company-paid cdl programs cause they're scams, you have to sign a contract & work for them for at least a year after you get done your training, in which you still may not even get your class-a cdl, and they pay you the same amount as opposed to being an independent that's not under contract, and they can let you go anytime during your contract, and you're stuck owing them money for the training, whether you work for them or not, and I heard some others saying independent schools are a little bit better, they'll actually train you & put you on the road with an experienced driver with 15+ years of experience, and they'll actually help you get your cdl, but you have to choose wisely, cause some of them are scams too, and their tuition is a little bit more than company-paid cdl programs, if not the same, so my battle buddy told me about Prime, Inc. he went to & said they're the best, cause they pay you $250/week for the time you train, they pay for hotel, you don't have to sign a contract, so you're free to go once you're done with training & you can be an Independent Operator or work for some one else, and they pay you $0.12/mile, and they actually train with you & help you to get your class-a cdl, I heard a lot of people say stay away from C.R. England cause they're the biggest scammers of them all, what are your suggestions?