There is no such thing as FREE TRAINING!!!!!
A question that is posed to us at Lake Cumberland CDL Training School each day is…
“What company will pay for my training to go through CDL School?”
IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY or CONSIDERING A CAREER IN TRUCKING
PLEASE KNOW THIS:
Free training sounds wonderful but you need to know the facts before you sign the dotted line. Free training will commit you, under contract, to work for that carrier for a specific period of time, regardless of pay or working conditions. You owe the company for your "FREE" training regardless. The price for the “Free CDL training” is a HUGE student loan contract that you signed and you could have no job or CDL.
Also, if you fail your training period with a contract carrier, you still OWE them for the entire tuition. A large contract carrier has no vested interest in your career. They are training up to 60 – 80 students per class. If you fall behind because you are not getting enough one on one time with the instructor or enough seat time behind the wheel, they will cut you from the class and send you home with a large payment contract, because you did not fulfill your contract.
Most people new to the industry don’t consider how much less money you will make under contract if you survive the training program. Most student drivers that have graduated a private CDL school can make anywhere from .31 to .34 cents per mile, approximately $850.00 to $1,000 a week and even more. Hard working drivers that work for top carriers while not under contract can make as much as $ 60,000 per year in the first year. Compare that to a contract driver making .22 to .24 cents per mile and making $600.00 to $700.00 per week. A non contract driver can make as much as $ 15,000 - $ 20,000 a year more than if they had trained for “free” and worked for a contract carrier.
Under contract it is not uncommon for the average driver to not be home for week after week at a time. The same driver working for a quality carrier not under contract will be home 3 to 4 times more often. All the while making more money and still have the freedom to move to a carrier that pays more money if they so choose.
The largest contract training carriers in the country all have divisions of drivers assigned to do nothing but recover abandoned vehicles in their fleet. Drivers that were fed up and just couldn’t take the lack of pay and poor working conditions usually just leave their trucks and walk away. Many drivers fail, are fired or quit within the first 6 months. Then you are in violation of your contract..You still owe them for your “free” training. If you are unsure of what you are reading do a internet search on the “Hazards of contract CDL training” and you will read the thousands of complaints of drivers who were fooled into doing “free training” or only having to pay a small fee $300 - $500 dollars to start school.
Lake Cumberland CDL Training School, Inc. along with most private CDL schools offer job placement assistance, and work with companies that offer tuition reimbursement. The companies will reimburse you for your training while you are driving for them (up to a cap each month), however you are not under contract to drive for them.
KNOW THE FACTS……..USE CAUTION