| Lets start with this simple fact. When you do an | | | | completely prepared for life on the road. |
| Internet search for trucking schools or truck driving | | | | After training you should of course consider your |
| schools you will find search results filled with hundreds | | | | costs. If you can't see prices for tuition, fees and |
| of websites offering something related to truck driving | | | | everything else, you might want to walk away now or |
| schools or truck driving jobs. You'll even find books that | | | | in your case leave that website. Just think what else is |
| say you need to buy them before you move on. | | | | going to be negotiable? Tuition, fees, your safety? |
| Then you have to wade through dozens of websites | | | | Now that you know how much it costs for tuition, you |
| that seem to provide mostly advertisements for other | | | | should also consider other costs like financing, room |
| truck driving schools. If you take the wrong course you | | | | and board or hotel stays, transportation to the school, |
| end up bouncing back and forth between | | | | amenities etc. Be conscious of the numbers game. It |
| advertisements. This will most likely leave you lost. | | | | might be $5000 for one school all-inclusive and $4000 |
| Well, We hope this makes it easier than ever before! | | | | for another but you still have to pay for hotel. That |
| First answer this question: | | | | makes them the same. So you really have to evaluate |
| - Are you committed to making this a new career or | | | | the schools and do your due diligence. |
| are you just looking to improve your skills for a job you | | | | Lastly and most commonly where people are taken |
| already have? | | | | for a ride, is the promise of employment. Your making |
| If your looking to make this a new career, than you | | | | a career move so you most definitely need to have a |
| should focus on the stability of the company doing the | | | | job lined up for when you complete school. Here is a |
| training, the quality of the training, their reputation in the | | | | simple fact. If they're not a "School to Hire" |
| industry, and your total costs. When it comes to proper | | | | organization, then it is not a job guarantee! “School |
| training your life depends on it! | | | | to Hire” refers to a situation where, not if, but when |
| If your just looking to improve your skills for a job you | | | | you complete school you have a job with the |
| already have then right off the bat you should look for | | | | company who trained you or with another company |
| a local training company. Try searches that include | | | | via a contractual agreement between the school and |
| your city or state. For example: "Riverside Truck | | | | a carrier. For example you might go to school A, and |
| Driving Schools" That can eliminate a lot of the junk out | | | | upon completion, you'll be working for company B. |
| there. | | | | You'll know before you even start school who your |
| All Right, Your Ready To Start A New Career: | | | | going to work for. The other option uses another very |
| First and fore most training should be the most | | | | common term. "Guaranteed Job Placement" or |
| important piece of the puzzle to you. If your not trained | | | | "Lifetime Placement Assistance", or something along |
| properly you could end up in a bad accident or a very | | | | those lines. The long and short of it, they guarantee |
| short driving career. That is why we say your life | | | | they will be helping you apply for jobs. |
| depends on it! As far as the training goes, someone | | | | The Hard Fact: |
| who is well experienced when it comes to truck driving | | | | - The fact is there are Truck Driving Schools out there |
| and truck driving training should train you on recent | | | | that have no intention other than taking your money, |
| equipment. | | | | getting you a license and sending you packing with a |
| Next consider the training time. | | | | hand full of applications. |
| Ask, Are you about to attend a license mill, or is the | | | | Now that you have a little more information about |
| company going to give you plenty of time behind the | | | | what you should look for than your ready to begin |
| wheel? A short and fast program most certainly isnot | | | | your search to find the school that is going to work for |
| going to give you the training you need to be | | | | you. |