Crst Expedited Get OUT

I've been in the CRST paid CDL training in Cedar Rapids, IA for a few days. This was a huge mistake. I'm not finished with the permit tests. Can I just fail the tests and get a bus ticket home? I'll face the monetary consequences. I do not feel safe here at all. I do not have any money to get myself home.

When I went through their training school my grand mother died and I informed them I was going to be going back home. They asked if I wanted to return I said yes so they were going to put my training on hold but my ride home and back was on my dime. May have changed I dont know. Been a few years.

Also I ended up not making the funeral because I was broke.

I've been in the crst school in cedar rapids, ia for a few days. This was a huge mistake. I'm not finished with the permit tests. Can I just fail the tests and get a bus ticket home? I'll face the monetary consequences. I do not feel safe here at all. I do not have any money to get myself home.

Sarah, this being your first post, I assume you haven't read much of the Trucking Truth forum. You will get as much support as you can handle here.

What makes it a "big mistake"? On this forum people have claimed homesickness, or that the classes weren't what they expected, or other reasons where they question their decision about trucking.

You're worried about your written permit tests. CRST should give you some time if you ask and are sincere. Have you seen the High Road Training Program here? It's the best study guide for the written test.

Take a short walk outside. Look at the stars and the trees. Come back here and start the High Road. Pick the topic that gives you the hardest time, and work through the questions.

Don't forget to come back here with your questions and comments.

... I do not feel safe here at all.

Why do you say that?

Yes, please give us more details. It's not at all uncommon for people to show up at a Company-Sponsored Training Program and almost instantly want to leave. Sometimes it's homesickness, sometimes it's horror stories they're hearing from other drivers at the company, sometimes it's classmates or an instructor that really rubs you the wrong way. But you mentioned not feeling safe so that's really got our attention. Let us know what's going on and we'll try to steer you in the right direction.

CRST is in the middle of class action lawsuit about sexual harassment and their total lack of appropriate response to female drivers complaints. This is currently in the public domain...and a simple google search will show the latest articles on this particular company, the law suit and the complaints behind this. If she feels unsafe she needs to file a report with the company....and the police department.

CRST is in the middle of class action lawsuit about sexual harassment

Well to be real about it you can replace CRST with the name of any company in America that has 1,000 employees and that's true. They're all being sued all the time. That's just business in the U.S.

If she feels unsafe she needs to file a report with the company....and the police department.

Agreed. But we'd still like to hear some specifics so we can help her out and possibly even speak with CRST about their program. They're a company we've covered for a long time and we've had quite a few people do well with them so it's definitely in everyone's best interest for them to run their company the right way.

Some of the common area's can seem alittle Jerry Springer at times so do what I did, stay out of them. Don't like your roomies ask to be moved. The communal lifestyle can be shocking for some. Dangerous though I'm having a hard time with that.

Sarah has left the building.