Stevens Company Sponsored Cdl Training

Has anyone gone through stevens company sponsored training and if so can i get some feedback. I start on the 17th of july and im pretty pumped about it

There's more than one school. Stevens and CRST both send veterans to a school in Colorado for training. I went to the school as a CRST student. Same trucks, same instructors, same dorms. There were three differences between the groups. CRST advanced their students $75/wk. for groceries. We repaid that later through payroll deductions. We were asked not to tell the Stevens students about this since they didn't get grocery money. When the training was complete CRST students took a rental car to orientation in OKC, Stevens students took the Greyhound to Texas. Apparently a tornado had gone through the area where Stevens has orientation about the time we graduated so it took my classmates a few days to make contact with Stevens after they arrived in Texas. The driving skills tests in orientation was the biggest difference. CRST students drove to a truck stop down the street from the terminal. Stevens students would spend hours every day performing rigorous maneuvers. At one point they described having to take the truck and trailer on a figure-8 course in reverse!

Day 1 - DOT Physical. You'll take a UA. Physicals were done in a chiropractor's office above a nearby truckstop first thing in the morning. Afternoon is orientation then study for your permit. Day 2 - Study for permit. Day 3 - Go to DMV before dawn, wait for DMV to open, take your permit test. Afternoon in the yard hooking and unhooking trailers. The rest of week 1 is spent taking a truck with >1,000,000 miles forward about 200 yards then back in a straight line over and over. Done? O.K., you can watch the next student do the same thing! Day 3 is the day the UA results come back. On average, we'd lose one student from each class for testing hot.

Week 2 - Take the same truck forward 200 yards, back at an angle into a lane parallel to the one you started in, pull forward and then back into the lane you started in. About an 8 hour day in the yard and evenings spent studying the textbook and filling out a multiple-choice test.

Week 3 - Mornings in the yard working on alley backing, afternoons on the road through rural Colorado. You'll be evaluated on your next to last day on your pre-trip, alley backing and driving skills. If you pass you'll be given a certificate by your evaluator. In the afternoon you'll drive to the DMV with the rest of your class and redeem your permit, the certificate and your driver's license for a temporary paper CDL. On your last day you'll be packing, working on your travel arrangements to orientation and finishing any odds and ends with your paperwork. There's a small celebration and awards ceremony for highest gpa and best road test scores.