Profile For Wild M.

Don't waste your time or money with AIT, unless you are willing to team with Covenant, or you can meet Werner's requirements, or you can lift 190 pounds over your head to meet Watkins & Shepard's requirement. You're gonna' be treated like a class act idiot when you go to all of these other companies various orientations and you can't pass their backing skills test.

Well, I am an AIT student. Once upon a time I would have endorsed this school, but now I am like this school needs to beef up their supply chain of companies willing to provide the externship requirements needed to officially graduate. This school claims to show on DAC reports, while not all trucking schools do. This school also claims a A+ score with BBB.org. Well, that's all fine and dandy hype, but what about job placement assistance, or having regular job fairs to help these students find a company that they can do their externship with? Well, that's where no matter if you're in AIT's Commercial Truck Driver program or in their Professional Truck Driver program the price you pay is higher. The amount of safety training hours are higher, and the requirements to graduate are harder. You do not come out of that school with a graduation certificate in your hand. You come out of that school with a CDL A with all endorsements in your hand. That school tries to sell itself on reputation and longevity in business. However, here I am finally got my CDL A with all endorsements, and over 400 hours of training by the school. I went through their Professional Truck Driver course, which is six months long, and not three months. I am still required to complete 240 hours over the road training and have a company driver trainer sign off on six weeks worth of evaluation sheets in order to be officially graduated. Guess what folks, that's where you hit the brick walls and discover that AIT is picking your pockets, but not marketing their own school to a lot of these trucking companies. That's why in the six months at AIT I never once seen a single job fair take place, and seriously having a Werner recruiter come to campus once does not constitute as sufficient opportunities for career placement. Any company that is willing to take their chance with an AIT student their road test operators get pretty ****ed off because here a community college teaches 45 degree, 90 degree, serpentine, straight line, offset backing skill, plus parallel parking a semi with trailer. AIT teaches state of Arizona min. requirements (straight line backing, off set backing, and parallel parking.) So, they expect these trucking companies to pick up their slack is what it boils down to at a greater tuition expense. I'm actually to the point of just giving up on the trucking industry, because trying to get in is too expensive for me. There's too many trucking companies out there that discriminate against AIT, and AIT graduation requirements. There's not enough staff support for job placement. AIT needs to compile a list of all of the companies they frequently work with to try and get their students the externship hours required for graduation. They give up on you if they can't get Werner, Covenant, or Watkins & Shepard to take you. I don't want to team, so Covenant is out of the question.

The link failed to show in my response, but I would contest against Craig Medical from performing drug screens.

http://www.craigmedical.com/Hair_Drug-Test_FAQ.htm

Here what I found on their page and in their FAQ. I would contest this particular screening company from performing any evaluations upon a person. The reason being is they share your results over the Internet which is a hippa violation. You may not be able to contest results, but you sure are able to contest security and confidentiality. Remember, whatever number they assigned to your name is still traceable back to your name.