Roadmaster is a hands-on truck-driving school and CDL training center with locations across the United States. Roadmaster provides you with the CDL training you need to get either a Class A or Class B CDL license to help you start your professional trucking career.

With classes forming weekly, you can be on your way to an exciting new career in as little as three to four weeks. Roadmaster truck driving school offers free job placement assistance after graduation. Tuition assistance is also available for those who qualify.

Roadmaster Drivers School provides professional truck driver training that will prepare you for a career in the trucking industry. And how do we do that?

Carl Matthews, Director of Training

You’re going to get intense training. You’re going to get complete training for the trucking industry. We cover all aspects of everything that’s needed for the trucking industry. So when you leave here, you’re fully prepared to go out and start with a company. And what we do here is we build a good foundation of a student that’s never even been inside of a truck before. Start with classroom. We cover all the classroom curriculum, the logs, the recap. We cover federal motor carriers regulations. Different things inside the classroom, we prepare them for the permits.

Pat Felty, Admissions Representative

Half the class will be out on a back-up pad. The other half of the class will be on the road. So all the new guys will be in the classroom for the first, pretty much the first 40 hours of their training is in the classroom. But they’re not always in the classroom. They’re outside doing pre-trip inspection training. They’re doing logbook training. We have a Pro-
TREAD lab, a computer lab. They do some audio-visual interactive computer stuff. They do that. So there’s a lot of stuff going on in that first 40 hours of school.

Carl Matthews, Director of Training

You’re going to be in a real truck. We have a 22-foot conventionals. We have 48- and 53-foot trailers. And by the end of the first week, they’re actually driving, shifting, up-shifting, down-shifting, and driving tractor trailers. They go out, they drive on the highway each day, progressively getting more complicated, until the point that they’re able to pass those tests at the end of the three weeks on their own.

Still wondering if a new career as a CDL professional is right for you? People from all walks of life have found their exciting new career at Roadmaster.

Pat Felty, Admissions Representative

There’s all sorts of people that come in to see me. I’ve got people that have master’s degrees. I have people that didn’t graduate high school. We get everybody here. It’s the most diverse community you will ever see is at Roadmaster. I just had a guy in here, and he was in construction. Now a lot of my students are former construction people that worked in that industry. Well construction, as you know, is up and down. So he would tell me, “Well, I’d worked three months, and I’d go on unemployment. Work another three months and go on unemployment.” And a lot of why he was here, hey I don’t think he just woke up one day and said “I want to be a truck driver.” I think he was looking for something that was good, consistent income that he can support his family with. And I think that’s what brought him to Roadmaster.

In these uncertain economic times, Roadmaster provides you with the training you need to begin a stable career for you and your family.

Tanya Mort, Finance Manager/Placement Director

There is no such thing as a laid-off truck driver. Like I said, we have an excellent placement rate. Roadmaster in general, across the board, has an excellent placement rate. If they can get through the representative and get into school, we can usually work with anybody, and as long as they’re willing to work with us and do the applications, they’re going to go to work. They’re going to go to work.

Pat Felty, Admissions Representative

Everything that’s delivered in America, everything is delivered by truck. There are four million truck drivers in America. There is work. I have jobs.

Carl Matthews, Director of Training

The majority of all of our students have jobs waiting for them before they graduate. Some have more than one.

Roadmaster Drivers School features a short three to four week CDL training program. Hands-on truck driver training. Classes available days, evenings, and weekends with new training sessions forming weekly. Tuition assistance available for those who qualify. Job placement assistance available after graduation. For those who are qualified, you can even be pre-hired before you finish training.

Roadmaster truck driving schools are available throughout the United States. So what are you waiting for? Get your career out of the slow lane and onto the road to a bright future as one of America’s trained CDL professionals. Call Roadmaster today at 1-800-831-1300, or visit us online at Roadmaster.com.

"Thank you Roadmaster and Covenant!"

“Well I was a fire fighter and a personal care assistant for 9 years and then work stopped so I decided to be a truck driver. I called Roadmaster in Chattanooga and got my training there. I had very polite instructors and they were all very helpful. My thanks to G. Vance, Scott, and all the instructors there – You’re great! I passed my CDL test the first time around with flying colors! I also met a bunch of nice women and men that were in the class and got to be friends with them and see them on the road. I’ve been to all the states a few times. I started driving Dec 2nd of 2012 and I love seeing all the different places and driving and backing up. I’ve driven over the mountains on Donner Pass and through Flagstaff with snow and ice, many times. I just have to use good judgment. Covenant is the place to be, they’re so kind and helpful. I would not drive for anyone else. Thanks Roadmaster and Covenant for everything!”

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A study by the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, utilizing data from Staples, found that the use of electric delivery trucks can cost between 9 to 12% less to operate than diesel-powered trucks.

However, the study noted, the cost of an electric truck can be triple that of a truck with a standard internal-combustion engine. An electric truck can cost nearly $150,000 compared to about $50,000 for the same type of truck with a standard internal-combustion engine.

A V2G system is about 68 cents per mile, compared to 75 cents for internal-combustion trucks.

“There has to be a good business case if there is going to be more adoption of electric vehicles,” said Jarrod Goentzel, director of the Renewable Energy Delivery Project at CTL and one of the co-authors of the new study. “We think it’s already a viable economic model, and as battery costs continue to drop, the case will only get better.” 

A recent study found that the operational cost of an electric truck enabled to use a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) system is about 68 cents per mile, compared to 75 cents for internal-combustion trucks. Researchers added that most of the savings scale down to the individual vehicle, so companies don’t need big fleets to save money.

The study found that internal combustion engines averaged 10.14 mpg., compared to 11.56 mpg. for hybrids, and the electric-only trucks averaged 0.8 kilowatt-hours per mile.

The researchers also modeled a V2G system in which the truck batteries were plugged into the electric grid for 12 hours a night. They found that businesses could earn about $900 to $1,400 per truck per year in V2G revenues in current energy markets, equal to a 7 to 11% reduction in vehicle operating costs. Firms would also save on brake maintenance because electric trucks cause less wear and tear, they said.

In a V2G system, vehicle batteries are plugged into the electric grid overnight to enhance the electric system’s reliability, and the truck owners are paid by utility firms for their power services. The trucks help improve reliability because utilities can depend on them to plug in at certain hours – as opposed to electric passenger vehicles, which consumers plug in at more random times.

MIT says several utility companies are testing V2G systems.

Ohio has the nation’s seventh-largest road system with more than 123,000 miles of roads. ”We’re blessed, especially in this part of the state, to have a good highway system and access to rivers and rails,” said Charlotte Keim, president of the Marietta Area Chamber of Commerce. “And we’re also located within 500 miles of half of the U.S. population…You can get products to half the country within a day’s drive in most cases.”

According to the Ohio Department of Development, trucking accounts for 78 percent of all shipping in Ohio.

“Everything has to go by truck at some point,” R. Gessel,  manager of Iddings Trucking in Marietta, said. Everything from food to clothing to fuel and building supplies were on a truck at some point before a consumer purchased the items.

“A lot of local trucking is dedicated to supporting the local industry,” he said. “We move a lot of coal for the power plants and a lot of raw materials for the metal and chemical companies…Then we take their finished products to wherever they need to go.”

According to the census report, aggregates, like sand and gravel account for almost 20 percent of the total weight of all goods moved around Ohio in 2007. Food accounted for about 8 percent of the total value of all items shipped in 2007. Just less than $1 billion of coal was moved across the state in 2007, along with $800,000 million in metals.

J. Starner, president of Merchants Five Star Inc. said he anticipates growth in the trucking industry as oil and gas exploration in the region has increased in recent months.

“There is a lot more demand for hauling sand, water, oil and byproducts,” he said. “It’s going to create a lot of jobs for the trucking industry, which is pretty large already. If you added up all the truck driving jobs in Washington County and treated it as one job segment, I would bet it would be near the top in terms of employment.” Article Source