Trainee From H3LL (Ranting...)

I'm guessing some of the CDL schools are illegally passing some people who shouldn't and they will get caught. Too many trainers say " he can't make a turn without jumping a curb" or some such thing.

Ya know, sometimes I think students just get lucky when it comes time for testing with the state. They might be awful throughout their weeks of training and it probably seems they will almost certainly fail. But come test time, for whatever reason, they just happened to have the best day they've had yet! Things fall into place, they pass the state exams, and get their CDL. Of course they can't drive worth a lick so everyone wonders how on Earth they managed to get as far as they did in the first place.

I don't think there are many schools passing people who shouldn't be passing because it's their reputation on the line. If they're turning out lousy students, companies aren't going to be willing to hire from the school. If the school can't place graduates with major companies they aren't going to land enough students in the future to be around for very long.

Maybe you're right. Maybe some people are super super cautious and freaked on test day. Then get out "without the pressure" of the examiner and are back to sucking. I don't know. But then again.,..think about schools and companies who know the test routes. The trainers then smtake the students on those routes over and over. By the time they test they have memorized the course and when they get out in the real world it doesn't work for them.

Brett said:

Ya know, sometimes I think students just get lucky when it comes time for testing with the state. They might be awful throughout their weeks of training and it probably seems they will almost certainly fail. But come test time, for whatever reason, they just happened to have the best day they've had yet!

Can confirm, lol. This happened to someone I went through cdl school with. He stalled almost every day leading up to test day. The day before we tested, he stalled multiple times in one uphill intersection. I never stalled once, and by the time we were supposed to test my shifting was much better than his.

Guess who passed test day and who didn't. I was happy for him, but all I really wanted to do was give him a good kick in the n*ts. LOL.

How's THAT for skill. Simply attempting to enter a gate.

45k in the box too. A few miles south mother nature called. I had her pull into a truck stop. I come back out a cew minutes later and she's strapped in the PASSENGER seat. I open the door and she informs me she's not driving. I said ok but then quickly thought -- "Oh H3LL NAW!" I finally yelled at her and told her she damaged it and by God she's dragging it to our Chicago terminal. Been stopping frequently to check for stress cracking etc. This is HER BABY now.

I bet I will beat ya to Iowa. I will be in Altoona tomorrow. Right. Is sitting at the Love's in New London, Misery. Ummm. Errr Missouri, I mean Missouri.

Errol, FYI I went to Memphis.

I've got to get better at commuicating. Or possibly due to recent events were a lil paranoid about "terminal rats"

I'm not going to comment on any company or school and their training, mostly because it seems to be in constant flux. (If you want to catch up some time when I get back down there we can compare notes "out of school"

My thoughts on why I thought/think some are being subsidized is the attitude. They didnt seem motivated to be there or much care.... Like you might expect of someone who's got nothing invested. Or they are all just snowflakes now and expect to pass because they showed up.

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My thoughts on why I thought/think some are being subsidized is the attitude. They didnt seem motivated to be there or much care.... Like you might expect of someone who's got nothing invested. Or they are all just snowflakes now and expect to pass because they showed up.

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I know a few people from the school I went to just did it to extend their unemployment benefits to make the state think that they wanted to work, etc. But in our class we started with 9 or 10 students, myself and one other proceeded to get their A class, two others moved down to the B since they openly admitted to not being able to grasp the tractor trailer, one of those B students failed their test twice so they were out, so in the end we finished with 2 A's, 2 B's and 6 that never completed the course with anything because they just didnt care enough about it. Which looking at things is probably really good since i dont think any of us want someone who doesnt care driving a 80,000 lb vehicle on the road.

When I went to Western Pacific Truck School, my group was all training pretty hard, and I even offered the school extra money for more training time, but they would not bite. We all still failed at the DMV. At my new school, someone might say I'm not, "trying" but it's more like I'm not interested in fighting with 10 other people over 1 truck to have a few minutes time driving, while sitting around the rest of the day.

Also, being cynical != not trying and learning. I loathed Western Pacific Truck school, but I still attempted to apply myself, and was well reviewed and graded by all the instructors that interacted with me. The only day I did well at my backing skills was when a substitute teacher called us pussies for always having it in first gear (school policy.) So we took it out that day, and we were all doing amazingly. Perhaps we were all overthinking it when stuck in 1st the whole time.