Please Help With Picking A School.
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Many companies offer cdl training. I work with Roehl out of the Dayton yard. Schneider and Prime and Millis also offer schooling that I have heard good things about. I cant say what will be the best fit to you. What are you looking for in a company? Nationwide, good hometime, pet policy? These are the kinds of factors that will help narrow down youe list of potentials a little more.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Hello I am knew to this forum and have been looking around and I haven't been able to find what I am looking for. If there is a post about this I do apologies.
I have been looking into becoming a truck driver. I want to find a place like CR England or Pam where I can get the needed paid training and have a decent paying job afterwords. My question is what is the best one or place to start out. I'm in the Dayton Ohio area. Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated.
Hi, Justin, welcome to Trucking Truth. This place has all the information you need. First, look across the top of the page to see what resources you can dig into.
Specifically for you, take a look at Company-Sponsored Training and Trucking Companies
Work through the High Road Training Program to get ready for your CDL written test.
You say you've been looking into Trucking as a career. Here's a couple of things you might like to read: Brett's Book and Truck Driver's Career Guide
And, of course, this forum will get your questions answered.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Company-sponsored Training:
A Company-Sponsored Training Program is a school that is owned and operated by a trucking company.
The schooling often requires little or no money up front. Instead of paying up-front tuition you will sign an agreement to work for the company for a specified amount of time after graduation, usually around a year, at a slightly lower rate of pay in order to pay for the training.
If you choose to quit working for the company before your year is up, they will normally require you to pay back a prorated amount of money for the schooling. The amount you pay back will be comparable to what you would have paid if you went to an independently owned school.
Company-sponsored training can be an excellent way to get your career underway if you can't afford the tuition up front for private schooling.
If you choose PAM, keep in mind that tgey have a 6 month ream requirement before going solo. Also, the solo pay is pretty low until you complete the 1 year contract you sign for them to send yoy tgrough school. PAM also does a hazmat bonus, soif you ho this route and want that bonus, turn in your tsa background stuff before leaving ao you got the ball rolling on it. I am 4 months into my PAM contract, if you have a questiin about them just ask or aend me a messageon the sight. Good luck to you with the company you choose :).
HAZMAT:
Hazardous Materials
Explosive, flammable, poisonous or otherwise potentially dangerous cargo. Large amounts of especially hazardous cargo are required to be placarded under HAZMAT regulations
OOS:
When a violation by either a driver or company is confirmed, an out-of-service order removes either the driver or the vehicle from the roadway until the violation is corrected.
Sorry for all the typos, hate typing on my phone lol.
Thank you all for the replys the biggest things I am looking for is best start out pay at a place that teaches CDL and has home time on weekends at least. I'm pretty well open to just about every thing else. At least with what I've read so far.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Just from my experience at PAM, if you want to max your money you need to:
1. Get your hazmat , hazmat team pay gets 3 cent bonus on ALL miles not just on hazmat loads.
2. Find a good partner and find one willing to get their hazmat. You both must have it to get the bonus.
3. Plan on teaming for a year, your pay will be much higher at PAM for teaming.
I ran a couple of weeks solo after losing my first partner and it cut my pay per week nearly in half! While teaming on a slow week i take home about $750, good week about $1000.
Again just keep the team and hazmat things in mind. Teaming is a different animal from the usual solo driver. If you want to go solo there are places that will pay more than PAM.
HAZMAT:
Hazardous Materials
Explosive, flammable, poisonous or otherwise potentially dangerous cargo. Large amounts of especially hazardous cargo are required to be placarded under HAZMAT regulations
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Hello I am knew to this forum and have been looking around and I haven't been able to find what I am looking for. If there is a post about this I do apologies.
I have been looking into becoming a truck driver. I want to find a place like CR England or Pam where I can get the needed paid training and have a decent paying job afterwords. My question is what is the best one or place to start out. I'm in the Dayton Ohio area. Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated.