What school did you attend/are attending, and their offers?
I researched three schools before I decided on the one I'm almost finished with. My current school costs $4,900 and change, and is a six week course. It includes one week of in-class theory, one week of in-yard, and four weeks of behind the wheel, which includes driving (obviously), (un)coupling, pre-trips, and basics. The outside features they offer as part of the $4900 is:
- Forklift certification (government recognized and valid for three years)
- First Aid/CPR (valid for three years) with the CRC
- Air brake endorsement (so you don't have to do it at the ministry)
- Skid school, where you drive slicked tired trucks on watery surfaces to counteract bad conditions
- Border crossing, where you drive up to a border and talk with customs agents about the process, what could happen, what to avoid, etc., and depending on time and student situations, cross borders and learn from the other side
One of the other schools I researched charged $2,000, plus an hourly in-truck rate that he estimated I would need 90 hours of, for something like $8,000, and that included just the air brake as a bonus.
Finally, the last school I looked at wanted $7,400 for pretty much the same thing as the first, but instead of skid school, they had a simulator. Ooooh. Simulation never beats actually taking a real truck out and purposely trying to spin it 360 degrees to see how it reacts and how to counter it.
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