It was Interstate Driver Training and I was the lead instructor there from 2003 til 2006.
Like most schools, it started out as a good idea. We had good trainers, decent trucks and a pretty good (affordable) program. But like most schools, as time went on the farther we got from the original plan. Soon the owner had 6 people working in the office with 4 supervisors for a total of 10 people in the office.....this for a school with 3 instructors!
By the time the school went out of business, we had instructors who were working on credit a fuel tab at a local fuel stop that never got paid and an owner who left town with a house full of rented furniture.
Express was the next to try it. They offered me a job and I turned it down...a few months later they were under. If Weatherford College had anything to do with it, they might have bought a couple of trucks. I have seen Interstate Driver Training trailers lined up as a tire shop in Fort Worth hauling off old tires.
Say what you want about bad instructors, but an instructors attitude may have something to do with the schools dedication to long term success. I for one have been an instructor at American Career Tech. Cowtown Driver Training, Longhorn Truck Driving School and Interstate Driver Training......If I ever trust another driving school it will be the one I own.
I LOVE teaching people how to drive 18 wheelers, I have over 10 years of experience at it. But schools come and go and it isn't always the most honest ones that last.
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