Comments By Andrey

A brief preface. I quit driving in March of this year and reopened a family business that I put on hold during the "pandemic." My last company was truly a great one, and I enjoyed every day of being part of it, but family needs made me look for a bigger income, and so I went back to baking. Overall the plan worked well, although I do miss driving a truck. Since my current schedule is flexible, I started looking for a part time local job, for two days every week to be more specific. And here comes my question. The only option I have in my area (New Hampshire) is a company 10 Roads Express (I believe it is the same as Eagle), a mail contractor. Does anyone have a first hand experience with this company? Online reviews are very contradicting, and based on these reviews it is hard to say how honest they are in their promises.

Congratulations! I knew you would like it :-)

A lot depends on time. I normally start driving at 6 am, and start looking for a parking spot between 6 and 7 pm. Finding a spot at rest areas at this time is easy, and if I don't need a shower I always prefer rest areas vs truck stops. Even with a shower in mind I'd rather take it in the middle of a day. What is still difficult for me is backing on a blind side, especially when it is dark. Most times I would not even try, but if I have time, and it is a bright day, and plenty of space, I would take a chance to practice.

The sherriff especially recommends if you see a group of people or a single person walking on your property that "no habla ingles" to just shoot them dead for obvious reasons.

A sheriff who recommends to shoot an unknown person is either a criminal, or retarded, or doesn't exist. I have a Texas permit to carry, I took a class, and I can tell that if someone shoots a person as it is described by that "sheriff," this someone goes to jail.

I don't think college can make anyone a better driver, they teach only diversity, equality, crt, yoh name it these days. There is only one way to become a better truck driver - to drive a truck.

Well, they do exactly what they are supposed to do - making sure that you get your CDL. You are lucky to have both knowledge and experience, so you really don't need anything from them but a chance to get tested.

As I have told OP, I did both types of training, so here is my story of a private CDL training. It was soon after the virus hit. I had to close my bakery and was looking for an income. Driving a truck was number one on my list. I saw an ad in a local paper about free training for unemployed, and decided to visit their office. I did not apply for any benefits, because I did not want to be unemployed, just the opposite, but I was told that they can pay for almost any kind of training at hundreds of places - community colleges, universities, trading schools, etc. I asked about CDL and they send me to NETTTS, paying about $7,000 for a 200 hours class. It was scheduled for weekends, took about 2 months, the school was 20 minutes from my home. I started a small welding business at that time and had enough of free time on werkends, so the whole set up worked well for me. The only problem was that because of virus state troopers were not coming to test us. I was ready to test, but had to wait. And as nobody knew how long it would take (it was summer of 2020), I decided to sign up with a company and do it all over again... Any way, I got some knowledge and experience at NETTTS, plus you cannot beat the price :-)

It is really hard for me to understand how people are shelling out $7k for a small piece of plastic which is available for free at so many places!

Why limit yourself with Colorado? If you decide to do New Hampshire, let me know, I am ready!

Apparently, some people wirh testing concerns can make it! LOL