I will start by saying I went for the week class for my CDL-AOne of the prerequisites was that you had to have your cdl permit before the class started, although people out of in the class didntWe used a large book called JJ Keller for schoolThe first few days we went over all the chapters in the NH cdl book including the school bus section which was a total waste of timeWe used that book to study for the permit so it was pointless to go over it againAlso one kid in our class failed to get his permit until the last week of classHe failed or timesSo since he no road experience he took forever on his skills practice ,which took away time from everyone who actually could drive on the roadPoint is he wasn't taking the test with us with the trooper since he didn't have his permit for the first weeks and still had to do 12- hour drives stillAnother big thing that bothered all of us is we had hour blocks of everything including yard manuevers etcSometimes we had double blocksWell the instructors would always show up or mins late before and after every break including lunch from their "smoke" breakThen they would have to set up the cones still and demo the manueverOver the course of the weeks I would say we lost hours of yard time of practice because of thisI ended up paying after class was over an hour on top of the Paid already to practice manuevers more because class ended and the test was postponed weeks due to weatherAlso one of the instructors, especially on the first few rides, was non stop texting on his cell phoneIt was bad enough I was trying to learn how to shift and he's telling me his life storyIn class the main instructor also would stop and tell stories about his personal life, His *** etcLots of profanity which we were told was grounds for dismissal, but he did lots of itThe instructors were not professional and one would lose his temper alot on drivesI heard this from multiple people in the class So im writing this for them tooIf you missed a gear he would yell and say "get it in gear "! With alot more color if u know what I meanI understand were not children but yelling at us won't help us If we knew how to do it we would not mess up, and yelling only makes it worseI really don't think they have the right temperament for the job, nor are they teacher materialOne even told us about his multiple accidents, and rolling on the highway in his doubles trying to speed by someone in a snowstormNot very comforting coming from our "instructor" who talks about "following distance"We wasted alot of time telling "stories" in classTime that could have been spent practicing manueversI saved years cash, on top of bills to pay for this class, and I feel it was not the experience I deservedI had to quit my job and live on savings to do this 8-class.It was all a thought out plan I finished with a GPA of 90, which was top 3, so im not saying any of this because I failedSo to wrap things up here are some pros and cons
PROS: Main instructor was good at in class teaching when he wasn't wasting time telling stories
Everyone in class was awesomeWe all become good friends and helped each other more then the instructors by the end
CONS: WASTED TIME!! I can't stress this enoughBetween story time and smoke breaks 1/of my went down the toilet
Practice time was nowhere near adequate On the final day before our trooper test we got hours to split between of usI got to practice manuevers time
Anytime it's snowed at ALL they canceled class, which made everything tight at the end to fit it all inWe need to learn how to drive in ALL Conditions Even inches of snow
TEXTING TEXTING TEXTING...this is something that annoyed alot of people including my friend who took this class the class before mine this summerWether it was in class or driving They would sit there and text or fall asleep in the chair while the other was teachingWe pay alot of money for the class and expected moreBreaking it down its roughly a day for class so I'm here to learn and not the Oprah show
I will start by saying I went for the week class for my CDL-AOne of the prerequisites was that you had to have your cdl permit before the class started, although people out of in the class didntWe used a large book called JJ Keller for schoolThe first few days we went over all the chapters in the NH cdl book including the school bus section which was a total waste of timeWe used that book to study for the permit so it was pointless to go over it againAlso one kid in our class failed to get his permit until the last week of classHe failed or timesSo since he no road experience he took forever on his skills practice ,which took away time from everyone who actually could drive on the roadPoint is he wasn't taking the test with us with the trooper since he didn't have his permit for the first weeks and still had to do 12- hour drives stillAnother big thing that bothered all of us is we had hour blocks of everything including yard manuevers etcSometimes we had double blocksWell the instructors would always show up or mins late before and after every break including lunch from their "smoke" breakThen they would have to set up the cones still and demo the manueverOver the course of the weeks I would say we lost hours of yard time of practice because of thisI ended up paying after class was over an hour on top of the Paid already to practice manuevers more because class ended and the test was postponed weeks due to weatherAlso one of the instructors, especially on the first few rides, was non stop texting on his cell phoneIt was bad enough I was trying to learn how to shift and he's telling me his life storyIn class the main instructor also would stop and tell stories about his personal life, His *** etcLots of profanity which we were told was grounds for dismissal, but he did lots of itThe instructors were not professional and one would lose his temper alot on drivesI heard this from multiple people in the class So im writing this for them tooIf you missed a gear he would yell and say "get it in gear "! With alot more color if u know what I meanI understand were not children but yelling at us won't help us If we knew how to do it we would not mess up, and yelling only makes it worseI really don't think they have the right temperament for the job, nor are they teacher materialOne even told us about his multiple accidents, and rolling on the highway in his doubles trying to speed by someone in a snowstormNot very comforting coming from our "instructor" who talks about "following distance"We wasted alot of time telling "stories" in classTime that could have been spent practicing manueversI saved years cash, on top of bills to pay for this class, and I feel it was not the experience I deservedI had to quit my job and live on savings to do this 8-class.It was all a thought out plan I finished with a GPA of 90, which was top 3, so im not saying any of this because I failedSo to wrap things up here are some pros and cons
PROS: Main instructor was good at in class teaching when he wasn't wasting time telling stories
Everyone in class was awesomeWe all become good friends and helped each other more then the instructors by the end
CONS: WASTED TIME!! I can't stress this enoughBetween story time and smoke breaks 1/of my went down the toilet
Practice time was nowhere near adequate On the final day before our trooper test we got hours to split between of usI got to practice manuevers time
Anytime it's snowed at ALL they canceled class, which made everything tight at the end to fit it all inWe need to learn how to drive in ALL Conditions Even inches of snow
TEXTING TEXTING TEXTING...this is something that annoyed alot of people including my friend who took this class the class before mine this summerWether it was in class or driving They would sit there and text or fall asleep in the chair while the other was teachingWe pay alot of money for the class and expected moreBreaking it down its roughly a day for class so I'm here to learn and not the Oprah show