Unfortunately, trucking is not right for your situation.A company is not going to train you,and send you home,2 days each week.You can get your cdl ,and screw the school,and find a local job..many scum bags go this route. You can lease a truck,make the $1000 weekly payment,pay for fuel,and go home,when you like. most companies want you to run 3-4 weeks,then you might get a few days off...and dont expect them to fall perfectly on sat-sun.
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Unfortunately, trucking is not right for your situation.A company is not going to train you,and send you home,2 days each week.You can get your cdl ,and screw the school,and find a local job..many scum bags go this route. You can lease a truck,make the $1000 weekly payment,pay for fuel,and go home,when you like. most companies want you to run 3-4 weeks,then you might get a few days off...and dont expect them to fall perfectly on sat-sun.
Im not understanding your post completely. What do you mean "screw the school, and scumbags?". And i didnt NEED sat sun off, it was just an example.
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Guys sign a contract with the school,to work at a certain rate for one year. They get their cdl ,then return home to drive a dump truck,garbage truck etc,for $20 per hour...dishonest. Most companies try to get a load toward your home,so they dont have to dead head you 500 miles. 500 miles ÷7mpg=70 gallons× $3 per gallon=$210 Ive been away since febuary,been home 2 days.
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Guys sign a contract with the school,to work at a certain rate for one year. They get their cdl ,then return home to drive a dump truck,garbage truck etc,for $20 per hour...dishonest. Most companies try to get a load toward your home,so they dont have to dead head you 500 miles. 500 miles ÷7mpg=70 gallons× $3 per gallon=$210 Ive been away since febuary,been home 2 days.
Youve been gone since February? Dang. I guess this wouldnt be for me unless I didnt have other obligations. Ive been wanting to go back to school for a loooooong time.
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There are other options but almost all of them require you to be away from home for at least the first month or so. There are companies that train that will require less time after the initial commitment, just like there are companies that require more. If you really want the job you can find a way to make it work. As for the school thing it might be feasible after a few months but until then your going to be worn out at the end of every day. Driving isnt a physical job but it is mentally taxing and it will make you just as tired as a physical job.
It is rare but not unheard of to land a local job after school but, this depends on your living area. However, if you can't pay or get a grant to a private trucking school then Company-Sponsored Training will be the path you'd need. Companies will have you sign a contract for a certain amount of time that you will agree to work for them. They train you and hire you when you pass. Over the road trucking won't get you home two days a week or even every week or even every two weeks though, some companies like Roehl do have nice looking home time packages for those that need it. The longer you're out with over the road, the more you see on your pay.
As far as school, you will not always have amazing internet and sometimes you won't have internet. Online school would need to be flexible and hopefully you'd be able to do a majority of the lessons offline.
Like another mentioned though, you're going to be dead tired and still adjusting to the lifestyle and I wouldn't recommend trying school at the same time.
I'll show you what I'm expecting with going to Prime in early September. I'll be on a Greyhound bus to Missouri for nearly 3 days. I will be in Missouri for a week. Then I will be with my first trainer for three weeks and after that I'll be with my second trainer for about three months. This is sleeping in the same truck, sleeping while the truck is moving, driving odd hours.
Trucking isn't a part time easy job that you just pick up.
That said, if you're in a good trucking area at all there may be rare local opportunities or line haul jobs. You'll just have to research.
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OTR driving normally means you'll be hauling freight to various customers throughout your company's hauling region. It often entails being gone from home for two to three weeks at a time.
Linehaul drivers will normally run loads from terminal to terminal for LTL (Less than Truckload) companies.
LTL (Less Than Truckload) carriers will have Linehaul drivers and P&D drivers. The P&D drivers will deliver loads locally from the terminal and pick up loads returning them to the terminal. Linehaul drivers will then run truckloads from terminal to terminal.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.
Thank you realist. That helps alot. May i ask this then, would getting a CDL help with getting a job with UPS or FEDEX as a driver/deliverer?
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Thank you realist. That helps alot. May i ask this then, would getting a CDL help with getting a job with UPS or FEDEX as a driver/deliverer?
You don't need a CDL to drive a package car for FedEx. They hire drivers off the street. As long as you have a clean record you have a shot at getting hired. Pay is around $16 an hour.
You do need a CDL to drive 18-wheelers for them or UPS.
UPS is much tougher to get hired to drive a package car. Most start as handlers and work their way up. Though UPS does hire full-time temp drivers as cover drivers off the street. But that is nothing guaranteed and most often it also does not result in a permanent hire.
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Hello, I am new to this forum! I live in East, TX.
I've been unemployed since April because I got laid off from a company that went bankrupt so I've been taking unemployment for months now. Now I told myself I don't just want to take any old sorry job out there, I'd like something I can do and would want to do. I've done retail jobs for the most part of my adult life.
Then I had to make a big car repair payment last week and it really hurt my wallet and it REALLY got me to thinking: "man I needed a really good job that pays well, I don't think typical (fake) retail jobs will cut for me right now". So being a truck driver has seriously been considered for me lately as I hear it can pay really well.
Few questions:
1. If I actually became a trucker for a while do I HAVE to do it Full Time? Or are there companies to where I don't have to work ALL the time? Like make sure I have at least two days off a week? (weekends?) I ask this because I hear you have to really dedicate yourself to this career field and it seems you'd be on the road for large chucks at a time. I have a (girlfriendish lol) and I'd like to be able to spend time with her still here and there.
2. I want to go back to school too so, if I am on the road for this job would it even ever be feasible to do my online classes on my down time driving? I know getting good sleep for this job is mandated.
I hope I don't seem silly, maybe I'm just asking for too much. But I'd like to see what all I could juggle while also getting a good new job started. What are yalls thoughts? Thanks XD