My Training Experience With Lobos Truck Driving Academy
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We have seen several negative posts about Lobos. My suggestions is to repost this content on the general forum page, you will get a significant number of people looking at it.
You need to carefully look at your contract before you do anything. Chances are there are penalties for going elsewhere at this point.
We have seen several negative posts about Lobos. My suggestions is to repost this content on the general forum page, you will get a significant number of people looking at it.
You need to carefully look at your contract before you do anything. Chances are there are penalties for going elsewhere at this point.
I posted your concern to a Lobos thread that is already established
It was not promised as advertised like for instance : Class room instructions , no certified instructor or instructors , it all self taught. They give you a CDL manual to study with that's all you get then after you pass the written exam you wait fourteen days. Then you go with a non certified instructor to learn the basic of backing up, offset backing, and parallel parking after that then go to the DOT test site and take their test. The first time I went I failed because wasn't properly taught those maneuvers the only thing that passed was my pretrip inspection. Now since passed everything this past Friday they want me to become a owner operator. How can I find a company that will help me with my advance training that I can trust? Please point me in the right direction.
Pride Transport, out of Salt Lake City, will hire from Lobos. You can give them a call, and see about working there. They run mainly refrigerated, if my memory serves me correctly, I posted about it in the other Lobos thread, that G-Town mentioned.
For a supposedly legitimate company, they seem to have a lot of questionable practices.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
- Any combination of vehicles with a gross combined weight rating (GCWR) of 26,001 or more pounds, providing the gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of the vehicle being towed is in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any single vehicle with a GVWR of 26,001 or more pounds, or any such vehicle towing another not in excess of 10,000 pounds.
- Any vehicle, regardless of size, designed to transport 16 or more persons, including the driver.
- Any vehicle required by federal regulations to be placarded while transporting hazardous materials.
Owner Operator:
An owner-operator is a driver who either owns or leases the truck they are driving. A self-employed driver.
DOT:
Department Of Transportation
A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.
State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.New Reply:
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It was not promised as advertised like for instance : Class room instructions , no certified instructor or instructors , it all self taught. They give you a CDL manual to study with that's all you get then after you pass the written exam you wait fourteen days. Then you go with a non certified instructor to learn the basic of backing up, offset backing, and parallel parking after that then go to the DOT test site and take their test. The first time I went I failed because wasn't properly taught those maneuvers the only thing that passed was my pretrip inspection. Now since passed everything this past Friday they want me to become a owner operator. How can I find a company that will help me with my advance training that I can trust? Please point me in the right direction.
CDL:
Commercial Driver's License (CDL)
A CDL is required to drive any of the following vehicles:
Owner Operator:
An owner-operator is a driver who either owns or leases the truck they are driving. A self-employed driver.
DOT:
Department Of Transportation
A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the national highways and for railroad and airline safety. It also manages Amtrak, the national railroad system, and the Coast Guard.
State and Federal DOT Officers are responsible for commercial vehicle enforcement. "The truck police" you could call them.
HOS:
Hours Of Service
HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.