The reason some companies want you to go to school even with a cdl is to get certified by that school. Then they can have someone to blame if you screw up.

People would do a lot better in their careers if they would drop the 'us vs them' mentality, too.

Thats true but they also want to know that the drivers they hire are safe. I teach at a school and we get guys that already have a cdl a and you would be suprised at how little they know. Some of them get them and then dont drive. So it can be like training someone that has never been in a truck before. I can see the safety reason in the whole deal.

Even though I graduated from a trucking school, they are now blowing me off. I took the CDL test four times and flunked each time. My school would not allow me to come in and practice before my fourth test, and my range instructor refuses to return my phone calls.

I now plan to go to another trucking school and do the whole thing alllllll over again...

I signed up with another school for tutoring, I may do this for a few hours, then try retaking the test. If I can't get it the fifth time, time for a new school.

After thinking about it, I decided just to go back to another school and wait to test for a fifth time. Good thing is, the new school knocked $300 off the cost of my tuition (I paid $300 for coaching before enrolling at the new place) because they felt bad about me having to go through school all over again.

But I like this place a lot better. I still have to test by myself in my home state, but I feel I'll be able to get through this time. I like my instructors and my classmates. It's a better class of people, and not so much of the "white trash" factor I ran into at my old school.