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This is what a Company-Sponsored Training program is like.
There's nothing easy about it, the people who can't handle it are the ones who won't be able to handle trucking. Hang in there! Believe me, sleeping in a moving truck isn't any easier.
But congratulations on your 2 weeks! Keep it up and don't let anything get you down.
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.
Where in florida are you from?
This is what a Company-Sponsored Training program is like.
There's nothing easy about it, the people who can't handle it are the ones who won't be able to handle trucking. Hang in there! Believe me, sleeping in a moving truck isn't any easier.
But congratulations on your 2 weeks! Keep it up and don't let anything get you down.
Appreciate the words Daniel
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.
Where in florida are you from?
Central Florida
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I joined Swifts company training about a month ago, left in late October and am now having to wait till Thursday to find out how many weeks i have to wait on my home terminal to give me my last week of training before my cdl test with the dmv.. The instructors I had in Millington were... well lets just say one was really good and the other had an attitude.. Good cop Bad cop? maybe.. Truthfully I felt it was like a refresher course and not a cdl training.. we had 55 people in my class on day 1 and we had 25 people graduate the first two weeks.. at 4400 a pop i can see swift making a lot of money or at least tax write offs from the 5 training programs it has.. Knowing this left me a little perturbed as to why we had military beds in our rooms that were not very comfortable.. The sleep deprivation we were put through left it very hard to pick things up quickly and coming from Florida into 30 degree nights for over 8hrs left it physically hard to take notes on the one time we were shown how to do the driving skills.. I still haven't been told how my mirrors are supposed to be set.. Most of the people in my class whom have made it this far had prior experience with a truck before, leaving me wondering how I made it this far lol hopefully the last week of training at my home terminal will be much more hands on
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
Terminal:
A facility where trucking companies operate out of, or their "home base" if you will. A lot of major companies have multiple terminals around the country which usually consist of the main office building, a drop lot for trailers, and sometimes a repair shop and wash facilities.
Dm:
Dispatcher, Fleet Manager, Driver Manager
The primary person a driver communicates with at his/her company. A dispatcher can play many roles, depending on the company's structure. Dispatchers may assign freight, file requests for home time, relay messages between the driver and management, inform customer service of any delays, change appointment times, and report information to the load planners.DMV:
Department of Motor Vehicles, Bureau of Motor Vehicles
The state agency that handles everything related to your driver's licences, including testing, issuance, transfers, and revocation.
OWI:
Operating While Intoxicated