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Celadon Training School Truth or Lies?
Ok I start school at celadon soon and have seen all the back lash on other sites and have started to wonder about my choice.
I have been told we have to drive 120,000 miles to settle the contract by one recruiter and go to 3 weeks of class then you get paid 50.00 a week for 6 weeks and don't get into a truck to get paid till 4th week that being the first paid week, starting then to get the 200 hours of road driving. They provide a hotel 3 meals a day for the 3 weeks in class. after you get done training they pay us .36c each mile at forced dispatch. They offer .3c per mile every 17,000 mile a month if dispatched that many. I talked to a few guys that had worked for them and gave me a different story.
They say the pay is on a scale and they try not to give you the miles to get any thing extra. they also said that they had seen others that had been made to drive 240,000 miles before released. I have a letter telling me to be in class and it says new drivers sent out at 240,000 miles as a team driver.
Dose any one know the truth why all the different stories from people and what should I expect?
I also was ready to get my permits in my home state but was told not too because the rules and laws are different at the training schools home state? Is it easy to get a permit in that state or the cdl why not have my permit already?
My home state also says I may have to still come back and get take a cdl test their before I can transfer the out of state cdl? If I have to do this I have to have my own truck and trailer to test in. I stress the may in that statement the state troopers said if it's a paper copy not a hard copy or the test was not given by a department of motor vehicles instructor they do not except it. He said this is because in some states they allow you to drive with a trainer who is a Rep of the state or certified by that state and they just sign off and give you a cdl after you complete so many hours on the road and you aren't tested at the DMV.
So Dose any one know what the real deal is and am I going the long road to a dead end?