When Should I Start To Shop For A Company?

Splitter,

How do you expect the economy to function without folks like me throwing hard earned money away?

Thanks for your input. As stressful as the trainees explain they are during their first few days of school, I am not enjoying the inability to do nothing to further my journey for the next 5-6 months. I suppose spending money needlessly is not a wise move. At least with football starting up today I can stay somewhat distracted for some of Thursday, Sunday and Monday for the next couple of months.

Prost

Splitter,

How do you expect the economy to function without folks like me throwing hard earned money away?

Thanks for your input. As stressful as the trainees explain they are during their first few days of school, I am not enjoying the inability to do nothing to further my journey for the next 5-6 months. I suppose spending money needlessly is not a wise move. At least with football starting up today I can stay somewhat distracted for some of Thursday, Sunday and Monday for the next couple of months.

Prost

Hahaha! I get it. But the stress is self imposed. The more time you spend preparing the less opportunity you give for stress to be a factor. My stress never came up during the PSD part of training. I had the CLP on first shot. I had most of the pretrip down, I knocked out the CBT’s in a couple of days. My issue at this time was the sims & learning the shift pattern. Because I had knocked out all the other obstacles, that freed me up to ask for extra time in sims class. They want us to succeed & if you show effort? They reciprocate.

Now testing? In the actual truck? Now that was some deeply insecure moments in my process. Like I said, practice the High Road Training, learn the pretrip ( there’s a good video on youtube by apex driving school that’s an hour long) with Daniel B’s pdf & this video, you’ll ace that too.

Thank you everyone for your support. I really appreciate the help to roll back the vail if the trucking industry.

I know that most of the big companies in theory comes out about the same with the pros and cons. However, since I am going to have about 12-14 months left on my GI Bill I do know I want a company that has a military Apprenticeship program since that would be a lot of extra money a month until it's used up. So far I only know of Roehl and Swift that offer this. Does the hive mind that is TT know of any others?

Hope this helps:

VA Apprenticeship Program: A Company List

We also have this:

Military Veterans Into Trucking - The Complete Guide

All very good advice, thanks.

Since you spoke on shift pattern, I have a question (Maybe more for Brett?).

Reading lots of the Prime folks articles and comments, it sounds like automatic training is inevitable for incoming folks now. So if we incoming trainees have an automatic restriction, how hard is it to train later in a manual if a new job opportunity presents itself later in life? Does that opportunity even exist once they see the restriction outright?

All very good advice, thanks.

Since you spoke on shift pattern, I have a question (Maybe more for Brett?).

Reading lots of the Prime folks articles and comments, it sounds like automatic training is inevitable for incoming folks now. So if we incoming trainees have an automatic restriction, how hard is it to train later in a manual if a new job opportunity presents itself later in life? Does that opportunity even exist once they see the restriction outright?

I can answer the first question. I know of people that did their PSD in autos & came to practice in a few days, then aced their tests. It’s easier to focus on the shifting when you don’t have to focus on backing or turning or just driving in general. Going out in an auto spares you that extra learning curve.

Are opportunities available later? Can’t say one way or another.