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Originally Posted by bigdad7
cfi is one of the only companies to pick up the bill with no contract
my advice to you would be to go with cfis training program
Ditto.
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and get enough experience to find another job the pay is standard and the benefits suck but with no contract as soon as you have 3 months in the doors begin to open
The pay is "better" than standard because its all paid as "Practical Miles", as opposed to the hoser hhg miles. A student driver at CFI actually makes a good paycheck. All of my students there made well over $650 a week while on the truck with me. As to the benefits....maybe they aren't the best, for the first year....but then a lot of the "health insurance plans" in this industry aren't all that great anyway. When I was at CFI.... my wife had some very serious surgery. The bills got paid. So all in all, it was fine.
If you go to CFI, do so with the intent of staying.
In addition to being paid Practical Miles, if you have a "hazmat endorsement" you will get an extra 3 cpm for a placarded load, and if you are dispatched to any of the 11 Northeast states... you get paid an extra 5 cpm per dispatched mile. I did quite well there for the 7 years I drove for them. They are a good company. If you do their training program, and stay for at least a year....you will be able to go anywhere. But, if you are worth your salt....you will do well and stay there much longer. 8)