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Originally Posted by GFED
Apparently since the WIOA funding has been suspended, I'm not worth anything to them anymore. The new "recruiter" kept trying to push me to get financed ($7000) and made it sound like the WIOA Grants were permanently suspended. That's the complete opposite of what they were implying last week.
Sage Trucking school is only $5150 if I do choose to go through financing. I'm trying to exhaust all my options here first. I bet they even lied about my recruiter leaving the company. I'm crossing Roadmaster off my list. They're a bunch of cunts.
I fucking hate people.  |
If you go through a school, you will owe the 5k-7k no matter what happens, if you get a shitty job or a good one. Meanwhile if you just take the training through one of the decent megas you will make money while training and only owe money if you don't stay a year.
I simply can not see the school option is a good deal because they aren't teaching you how to do the job and driving over the road, they are just teaching you how to pass a CDL test. Then once you get hired somewhere you are gonna get put in their training for however long they require a new driver to run as a team.
TBH, you can self study to pass the restricted license online. There are shitloads of practice tests online that have the actual real questions and answers on them. Just study those and memorize the answers.
After that you can self study the pre-trip. I knew most of my pre-trip before I ever got a trainer. Meaning as far as the CDL license goes the only thing you need to have a trainer for is learning how to back up a trailer and do the different back ups the test requires and get road experience for the road test.
As far as the backing up, these schools and even the mega trainers don't really teach you how to "back-up" a truck. They teach you when to turn the steering wheel and look for turn points in the mirror for specific backing maneuvers. You only learn to back up the truck by doing it in real situations and from experance.
Meaning when you pay these schools you're just paying them to be trained like a assembly line to pass a test and use their truck for that test.
Even if all you wanted was the CDL it's still cheaper to go somewhere like Prime because you go there do your week's orientation, get a trainer go out on the road for 2 weeks (usually), come back do a bunch of practicing on your back ups then take your tests.. You could then pass the test, get your CDL and walk away with the CDL. You'd then be on the hook for the $4,5k which is still $1k cheaper than that other school.
You can maybe find cheaper via one of the other Megas as I think Prime is on the higher side but they have a good training program. Some will only hit you in the $3k range if you don't stay a year.