I can tell you if you are a woman and you have no truck driving experience to begin with avoid HR Career Development in Montpelier, OH.
It was my second week of school, first week on the range, second day on the range when they said I wasn't progressing as fast as I should be.
My instructor on the range spent the majority of his time on his cell phone, or chatting with whoever dropped in on the range.
On more than one occasion, when I asked him how to do something, he'd say, "well, I can't tell you how to do it." Then what the hell did I pay the school $4,300 for???
Flunked the CDL (pretrip, skills and road) for the fourth time yesterday. My school wouldn't let me come out to practice before the test, nor would they get the truck to the testing site, even though I was testing right before one of their current students was testing (they pulled up in the truck at the testing site when I was 3/4 of the way through my pretrip). As a result, I paid $50 to rent the testing facility's truck (a POS Freightliner, 48-foot trailer) instead of testing in a familiar truck.
Also, they let one student go back again through the school for free, and let one student use the school truck to test three times without him having to pay for it.
If I want additional help from the school, I was informed I've have to pay. There is no way I'm paying $17.50 an hour to have my jackass range instructor look down his nose at me and not teach me anything again.
So I'm going to do some private tutoring from another school several miles from my home. Then test again. If I can't pass in two more chances, I'm going to another school.
It kills me; for years I've wanted to go back to school to learn a new career. I thought I was making a good responsible choice, but now that I think about it, the more impulsive and "irresponsible" choices I make, the better off I am.
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