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Originally Posted by charged
What is the advantage of going to a school to get your CDL?
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I get this question all the time.
?Why would I give you (my school) $10,000 to get my class one, when I can get it for 1/3 that?"
It depends on what you want. If what you want is is ONLY a class 1 license, then there is no reason why you should. You might even find someone who will let you use their equipment and do it for free, although that is very unlikely.
Or you can go to a Road Test School, where their only concern is that you have the skill sets to pass a road test. We are going to call that the Big Box School. The only thing they are concerned with is the sale and then watching you walk out the door when you are done, hoping NEVER to see you again.
So now what you do is to find someone who knows that it is not really a class 1 license you want. I know you think that is what you want, but it isn't.
What most people want when they come to train with us is that when they are done, they are employable. They want to go to work.
I don't care if you spend 3 grand, 10 grand, or 30 grand. If you cannot find work because you are unemployable, then you have wasted your money.
So, the first mistake, is to call it a school. What school usually does is to prepare you for more school.
No, what you want is to go train somewhere that the view is that it is not a school, it is a job.
The very first thing we write on the board in my "school" is this,
"This is not a school, this is a job".
And then we treat you accordingly. Like employees, you are treated like employees, and we expect you to behave as employees.
And the reason is that when you are done, the first thing you will have to work. So we treat you accordingly. Its work.
And, if you do the job right, when you are done, then we will help steer you in the right direction for Work.
Is it easy? No, but should it be for that much money? No. You should expect hard.
When I get the occasional person who wants just a class 1, I almost always send them away to a school.
If what they want is to work, train, work, excel, learn, well then they have come to the right place.
Money cannot buy that, you need to go to the right place.
A class 1 license is NOT a ticket to a job.
All the Class 1 license gets you is the opportunity to have a conversation you could not have before. And the better the training, the better the conversation you can have.
No one comes in my door for a Class 1, they come in so they can have a conversation.
A conversation with a potential employer, a conversation with a loan company to buy a car, a conversation with the bank to get a mortgage, a conversation with the college they want to send their child to.
This is not about the money, it is not about the training.... it is about the conversation's you want to have.