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Originally Posted by Uturn2001
While not impossible to find a Class A driving job with out attending a CDL school it is very difficult.
Not un-true, but the other side of the coin is that I blew six grand to go to driving school, and it turned out the company I went with would have been glad to train me and get me a CDL if they had known me ahead of time. We trained one guy from the warehouse, and a couple guys off the street in my time there. I was the only sucker in the whole bunch working to pay off that $6,000 tab for CDL school.
On the other other side, I had no idea that company existed, and I found out about them through the placement office at CDL school.
I also think I got better, more broadly applicable training in school, and it was a good way to go, except for the exorbitant tuition.
(Everybody else who went through that school went through JTPA. I was apparently a real sucker for putting the whole tab on my Visa. Which was, in retrospect, an incredibly stupid thing to do. Sort of. OTOOOH, it all paid off, and OTOOOOH, I paid like $10,000+ for school once I got done with all the interest. So what do you do about hindsight? It's hard to say. I guess the main thing is I made it all work, and I'm not broke anymore, and I'm making a viable go of being a freight relocation engineering technologist for all that.)