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Originally Posted by Karnajj
You might get your Cdl's together but they will not train you together once you get to Interstate. You will each train with seperate trainers and then get your truck together. I don't know of a single company that will train a team together in the same truck.
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Hey Karnajj, you work for Interstate? You must not, because you are giving wrong info here! Interstate will train teams together and the trainer will sleep somewhere else while the team sleeps in the truck. The CDL school will most likely be one that Interstate likes to hire from, but not financed by the company. The comany will reimburse you for some of your school tuition. The actual time you spend at Tacoma is 3 days for orientation, then 40 hrs each with a local trainer to see if you're up to the task of driving in traffic, city streets, freeway and highway and backing skills. You'll also have to pass IDC's pre-trip, brakes test, skills test and driving test before you go OTR with another trainer. Then you both will have to complete 200 hrs. OTR each (running "super solo") and then test out on everything again before being assigned to your own truck.
I'm going to be solo and have about 3 weeks left OTR. I have a great trainer that is very knowledgeable in all aspects of making a living, being the safest and most productive I can be.
If you decide on Interstate, you most likely will be glad you did, I just hope freight picks up soon. Most the truck stops are starting to look like full parking lots by noon time.