I agree with Hindsight2020 about this school. I attended in 2005 and the living quarters are just like they said in their blog. The food was bad also.
When it came time for us to go and take the test for our license, they sent us to different testing sights. They taught us on old broken down trucks and then sent us to take the test in trucks that we have never droven before (which didn't help with the test).
I failed my first testing which was taken in Nesho Missouri about a two hour drive away from the school. Then they sent me to another place about the same distance from then and because I did as I was taught, I also failed that test. It wasn't until they sent us to Blue Springs MO (a suburb of Kansas City MO) that I finally past.
I was there for 2 months and even though I would pass some of the test at the testing sights, I was still required to practice the drills that I had past.
They also do not give you a certificate of completion until you have paid off your loan to them. I have still to this day not paid anything to the loan company, because they taught me on an eight speed and all of the companies that I have drove for and are still driving for us 10 speeds.
I feel that this is a very poor excuse for a school and that they should be looked into for health conditions and for training conditions.
I met an instructor out on the road one day (I think it was in Ohio) and he told me that he couldn't take it anymore, so he bought his own truck and went OTR. He said that he was much happier.
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