cost of trucking school!!! what shoud I do?

[Relientk]

Hi,

I have narrowed my choices of companies I would like to work for down to 2. One offers a full meal deal school which is valued at 4k with a work commitment of 6 months. The other company does not and my option would be to attend my local school which is 6k(US Trucking School) but I would have to finance it. 150 down and 150 a month with 19.25 % interest. Now that is the part I don't like. Also how can a school offer a class for 6k when others schools offer the same class for half that cost. I am a little confused and don't want to pay 6k for trucking school.

Question:

Am I better off letting the trucking company(CRST) pay for my school which includes hotel, Food, transportation etc. or go through my local school? when I ad up the cost of the local school with fuel and everything else figured in the total would come to around 7K. :? :? :?

Thanks for the help,

Sean

[dle]

Have you checked the community colleges in your area?

In either choice you will probably be stuck with a debt that will have to be paid. I don't know what CRST does, but they might have you sign a promisory note for the cost of the training, etc etc etc.

[NevadaJim]

7k @ 19.25% a year interest. The interest alone will kill you. Just me, but I would run from that deal. If that's the only school option I would start looking at companies to get your CDL. These schools are in it for the money, nothing else.