In my theory ; you don't get expeirience sitting in a class room.. Books and drawing on a chulk board turn people into educated idiots..You don't learn common sense and you are unable to learn from your mistakes sitting in a classroom..Granted there are some things to learn in a class room, but alot of it can be taught by the guy who is training you .. These truck driving schools are turning out the most dangerous drivers I have ever seen in my life and in my opinion should be out lawed. Most of the insructors do not have much experience in driving themselves, and to try to teach a guy who has never sat behind the wheel of a 80,000 pound torpedo is just plain neglegence on the Federal Government's behalf.. Myself I was taught from a young man on the farm driving farm tractors then from there to class3 driver(that was before cdl) then to class 1.. all of my training was done by guies with 20 to 30 years experience...Training me while they were doing their everyday job and training me free of charge.. This was done all the time back in the day..When you got your lisence you were trained by professional drivers , not these idiots who are in these driving schools or some of these idiots from these big companies who are driver instructors...and it took me a year to get enough traing to be a good driver
The government needs to crack down on these types of driver training schools. I don't call 6 weeks of training nearly enough to train a person to call them a professional driver..After nearly 30 years of driving myself, I am still learning new things in driving technics.. This is heavy equipment and it can kill people if in the wrong hands...,and believe me I have seen alot of drivers who I can tell didn't get a lot of training
I know there is going to people who are going to disagree with me , but thats the way it is.. I myself am thinking about buying more trucks. But I am scared to death in what is going to walk through my doors as drivers.. I will not hire truck driving school graduates
Dave