Need Advice Please

I'm learning the hard way how precious being patient is in this industry, and how quickly expectations can derail you, so I understand what you're feeling. The vets are right, you can only control a few things on this equation so don't let it run away on you. And your company will make sure they get their money's worth out of the school and make sure you're qualified to begin driving for them. Companies aren't going to lose out on their investment (you) by any means. Hang in there and good luck to you.

Chad, you must have missed something. First off, I will never drive for my company. They ARE NOT in the transportation industry. Believe it or not, my employer DISCOURAGES people from staying with them.. newer employees, cheaper labor costs. They pay for employees to get training for jobs not relevant to the company and PAY them to leave.

Secondly, I have tons of patience generally. However this is a restricted entry private training school nightmare for my class... or whatever is left of it.

G-Town, I'm in a very unique situation.

Sorry Sue, I just now had an opportunity to read your reply to Brett. I totally get it now (I may learn slow, but I learn good)...this is rather unique, tricky. I think the suggestion Brett made, confirmed by Old School is the right thing to do. Look forward to an update from you. I hope it works itself out.

Well here we go. . Our classes for tomorrow and Saturday have bern canceled with no explanation. My classmates are absolutely livid.

One of my classmates finally reached the office at our school.

Apparently someone affiliated with our CDL School has died. I'm hoping it isn't one of our instructors. My classmate said the person who answered the phone a few minutes ago was distraught and in tears.

I knew this was highly unusual behavior for this school. Apparently all my other classmates had already complained to our HR department as soon as they got the message we were canceled. 😲

I went to quality truck driving school in Paducah Kentucky in 2003 and within 14 days had my cdl and we never had that problem ! it sounds like the school has over extended itself

Yes it all sounds sketchy. . One major emergency after another. HOWEVER, the school is highly recommended, state and industry approved, and runs the cdl training programs at several Kentucky community colleges.

Most of our equipment is better than I expected for a cdl school. Currently at the range where I attend, all trucks are 10 speeds. We have 1 freightliner cascadia, 1 volvo (which is even nicer, but can't take it off the range til they replace a drive tire since a student curbed it and put a huge bubble on the sidewall), and an old international, which amazingly they took on the road last weekend. That poor truck looks like its been through h3ll and back, and probably has lol.

Apparently the truck (another cascadia) we will test in is still at the state testing facilities, because a few others had yet to test. They are going to try to have it available to us so we can practice with it.

As I've said, this school offers the cdl training for many community colleges in the state. But, why the heck don't they have a key to the gate to get into their own range.. why are we out there waiting for almost an hour for someone to unlock it. We're getting a 160 hr certificate, but will obviously be missing a large chunk of those 160 hours. Yes, I'm concerned. I really feel like I need the hours we are supposed to have had, and they were paid for. The way they are shuttling instructors to our class, I think its a "lack of enough available instructors" emergency to be quite honest. My employer has paid this school $144,000 (in advance) to train 36 students to obtain their cdl since August 22, 2015. The first class should be testing out in the next week or so.

This is an awful scenario. It might be better to "restart" the class from square one with new instructors.