Comments By The Riot

What are the prospects for a 60 year old being excepted into a company school?

I just made 60, work construction now. In good health, no drugs, haven't had a traffic ticket in 20 years, no DUI, no criminal record, have never been arrested. Divorced, older children out on their own.

For the last few years I have been thinking about getting a CDL , and going OTR to see the country. I think that after the holidays would be a good time for me to finalize my decision and apply and attend school.

Researching on this forum and others, I think that company training would be a good way for me to enter the industry. After following Big Scott's adventures at CFI, that is one company school I would apply to. Big Scott, were there any older students when you were there?

Thanks in advance for any answers or advice. This forum is very friendly compared to others, and all of you seem to be very good folks.

Big Scott, how does CFI determine what students go to Crowther or Dynasty?

Most go to Crowder. If Crowder fills up they will send you to Truck Dynasty. Either way you will get the training you need to pass the test. You will train and test on 10 speeds. Most likely your finisher at CFI will have an autoshift. I hope that helps.

I may have missed it in your posts, but is the 3 meals a day included it the Dynasty school?

Big Scott, how does CFI determine what students go to Crowther or Dynasty?

Big Scott, best of luck. I lurk here, but am thinking about CFI school.

Thanks for all the responses to my initial thread.

I'm not afraid of the challenge of going to school to get my CDL, I just found it astounding that 16 out of 17 students taking the final CDL test could fail it. But now that I've read all of your responses, I realize that this guy may be BSing, or most of those students who failed the first time may have retaken the test, passed,and got their CDL.

It seems that a few people on this forum have attended the Swift school in Corsicana. Can any of you tell me if that is the location where Louisiana residents attend? I figure Louisiana residents would attend either Corsicana or Memphis.

Thanks again to everyone on this forum for the valuable info .

Amendment to my last post. Body Cams? Yes

BODY CAMS? Tell me you're kidding...

Rick

Yep, that was my thought too. Body cams seemed over the top. But I guess it is what it is.

And on the pass/ fail numbers I questioned, this guy gave the impression that out of 8 test takers at the END of school, that only 2 moved on to getting a CDL. And in the previous only 1 out of 17 moved on with a CDL in hand.

There is a guy posting on another site about his experiences at Swift school in Georgia.

He claims that in his class only 2 of the 8 students in his class passed the CDL test. And in the previous class only 1 out of 17 passed. Is the failure rate really anything close to this?

He also talks about how everywhere and everything at the Swift school is under video surveillance. Including all the Swift personnel at the school wearing body cams that records audio and video of every interaction with students. Seems a little overboard to me if true.