Enrollment up 30% at local truck driving schools

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Old 03-08-2009, 04:31 PM
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Who cares? Shutup and drive.
 
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Old 03-08-2009, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by wimpy
Who cares? Shutup and drive.
I care for every American that has lost their job and/or source of income. Trust me I have been there, and I probably don't have to tell you but it sucks. Just hate to see these folks be misled into believing that there is a plethora of trucks out there just waiting to be filled.
 
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Old 03-08-2009, 06:09 PM
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Last time i checked, even though you attend a driving school, you are not guarenteed a job driving for anybody. I went thru the Swift school, and they told me from day 1...that i should look at this school as a 3 week interview.

Schools are open to serve one purpose......MAKE MONEY. Period.
 
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Old 03-08-2009, 07:24 PM
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well hopefully raising the pprices will discourage people from doing it. i know when i paid 3800 for my class in jersey back in 2003 i was really pissed people were in my class for free thru unemployment. **** wasnt fair
 
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Old 03-08-2009, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Biscuit Lips
I just want to know where all these folks are going to work at? Wonder if they have any idea how difficult it will be to find a trucking job, as well? Good for the truck driving schools, I suppose.
That doesnt just go for trucking schools. Where is anybody going to a technical school going to get a job? Everyday there are welders, machinists, bricklayers and electricians going to school to learn their trade. I bet technical schools arent turning away applicants because jobs in those fields are drying up.
 
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Old 03-08-2009, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Jumbo
That doesnt just go for trucking schools. Where is anybody going to a technical school going to get a job? Everyday there are welders, machinists, bricklayers and electricians going to school to learn their trade. I bet technical schools arent turning away applicants because jobs in those fields are drying up.
You make a valid point, but it is slightly different when the trucking companies are paying for their training or even more so when they are going to a carrier ran school. Let me know if you know of any companies that will pay my way through welding school. Wouldn't mind be an electrician either, you know of any electrical companies that have their own training program where I can learn the trade and pay them back over the course of several years?
 
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Originally Posted by Biscuit Lips
You make a valid point, but it is slightly different when the trucking companies are paying for their training or even more so when they are going to a carrier ran school. Let me know if you know of any companies that will pay my way through welding school. Wouldn't mind be an electrician either, you know of any electrical companies that have their own training program where I can learn the trade and pay them back over the course of several years?

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Old 03-08-2009, 08:31 PM
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When you wondered where all these people were going to work I assumed we were talking about people who pay for their own training at one of these cdl mills. I would think that if they go to a carrier run school they would work for that carrier.
 
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Old 03-08-2009, 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by INKTOXICATED
well hopefully raising the pprices will discourage people from doing it. i know when i paid 3800 for my class in jersey back in 2003 i was really pissed people were in my class for free thru unemployment. **** wasnt fair
Yeah, it tends to pizz ya off, doesn't it. Of the 8 people in my class a few years ago, myself and 1 guy I befriended throughout the process were the only 2 who were paying their own way. There were 2 guys who probably shouldn't have been trusted to drive a damn skateboard, let a alone a semi, yet through the magic of WIA (and yours and myselfs tax dollars) there they were attempting to learn to drive a rig. My instructor ended up busting both of them out of class A courses and into class B during the course, as neither were coordinated enough to master double clutching after like 3 freaking weeks, so they put them into an old automatic moving van for the remainder of the course. 8>)
 
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Old 03-09-2009, 04:10 AM
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ya..........when I went to school in '07 all the "students" were from

unemployment......(they paid nothing)

some were there for 3 mo. and could not alley dock or str8 line back...or

shift...!!!!!:whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle:

I had 2 weeks to learn............and kicked a**. heck..................... i was

teaching them.......:smokin::smokin::smokin:

I guess when it's on "your dime". you work ..............you learn........ahhh


just venting...issedoff:issedoff:...have a nice day all.....................:thumbsup::thumbsup::clap:
 
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