CDL-Scholarship For Military Veterans-Transforce
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Well, CFI does operate Class 8 tractors and trailer combination vehicles.
The training is free AFTER you complete the contract period, same as most company sponsored training.
When I was there, the veteran benefits was a hat and a sticker for the truck.
It would be best to contact an actual recruiter to obtain accurate information, instead of reading what their "Biggest Fan" types on here most of the time.
Combination Vehicle:
A vehicle with two separate parts - the power unit (tractor) and the trailer. Tractor-trailers are considered combination vehicles.
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.
T force and transforce are 2 different entities. Transforce is more of a staffing agency. You work for transforce but they put you on other accounts.
Close.
TransForce is Canada's largest trucking company. In the US, an unrelated driver placement company uses the TransForce name. The Canadian company has been slowly expanding into the US freight market with targeted acquisitions such as CFI and UPS Freight. To avoid confusion (and a potential lawsuit from the US company) TransForce Canada uses the name TForce for their US operations instead of, "TransForce".
The THREE entities are:
TransForce in Canada aka TFI International (Freight company)
Transforce in the US (Driver placement company)
TForce for TransForce Canada's US operations
The branding and naming for TransForce Canada's US operations are in flux and probably going to go through a few rollouts before they settle on something they like long term. UPS was in such a hurry to offload their LTL company (formerly Overnite) TransForce bought first and worried about naming after the fact. UPS bought Overnite for $1.25B in 2005 and sold it to TransForce last year for $800M - at a $450M loss!
LTL:
Less Than Truckload
Refers to carriers that make a lot of smaller pickups and deliveries for multiple customers as opposed to hauling one big load of freight for one customer. This type of hauling is normally done by companies with terminals scattered throughout the country where freight is sorted before being moved on to its destination.
LTL carriers include:
- FedEx Freight
- Con-way
- YRC Freight
- UPS
- Old Dominion
- Estes
- Yellow-Roadway
- ABF Freight
- R+L Carrier
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