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CDS Tractor trailer training woodford va.

Discussion in 'Trucking Schools and CDL Training Forum' started by Nirvana, Sep 30, 2014.

  1. Sep 30, 2014 #1
    Nirvana

    Nirvana Light Load Member

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    My experience.

    What was supposed to be a month long course ended up being 16 days because of snow days and the class behind us was 40 deep. So they forced us out, half the class did not know how to do straight backs let alone 45 backs. out of a class of 10 people 7 failed more than three times.

    This was more the fault of the owner who is money grubbing to say the least. The trainers disliked her they made that abundantly clear.

    The trainers themselves were varied from people that truly knew the industry to people were inexperienced at best. I got the feeling that none of them wanted to be there examples are one guy who did class only could not pass the dot physical anymore. Multiple guys had things on there DAC that prevented from even working for second chance companies.

    There equipment was varied but each on had bad transmissions. They always had us start out in 4 gear the reason why is most the trucks 1-3 gears were no longer working.


    My synopsis this is a ripoff company. They will help you get your cdl but from there log book training to map reading parts are half aaa at least and when i went out with my first company i was lost i could shift but only because of 7 years of b experience.

    My brother in law tried knight and failed he went with western because they ran automatics he was not properly trained on manual. Any question ask.

    I graduated in febuary. Reason i am making this thread now is even though i have made every payment on time they fowarded my info to a debt collector because i was two weeks late on a payment which damaged my 709 credit rating.
     
    Nirvana, Sep 30, 2014
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  3. Oct 14, 2014 #2
    Nirvana

    Nirvana Light Load Member

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    Update they are not considered a accredited school by usa truck raven transport few others.
     
    Nirvana, Oct 14, 2014
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  4. Nov 18, 2014 #3
    Lefty1

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    They belong to the CVTA and now serve 3 community colleges. Dozens of recruiters visit every class. And btw, you are not on time with your payments if you were 2 weeks late on one.
     
    Lefty1, Nov 18, 2014
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    bubbagumpshrimp Thanks this.
  5. Nov 24, 2014 #4
    bubbagumpshrimp

    bubbagumpshrimp Medium Load Member

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    Meh. That's what happens when half of your class chooses to spend their downtime sitting around BS'ing...rather than getting in line to practice backing. I witnessed the same thing with my class (I went to the same CDS location). There would be 8+ people sitting around doing nothing while the same amount rotated in and out of the truck practicing backing. I really got a kick out of hanging out with most of the people in my class (they were a good bunch), but more than a couple just didn't take the time that we were given for backing very seriously.

    I thoroughly enjoyed working with all but one of my instructors. The other instructors had a similar take on the one odd duck. That one guy is no longer there. I can't say enough good things about the instructors. If you made it clear that you want to learn...they put in the time to help you. Period. I can't count how many times instructors put in WAY more time than I would have expected them to...to help someone grasp something that didn't click right off.

    They tended to start you out in fourth gear because you don't need 1-3 to get moving with an empty trailer on flat ground. The few occasions when I had to start on a hill...I was able to get started in 2nd just fine. I will say that I wasn't thrilled with the transmissions in a couple of the trucks, but their issues weren't anything that you couldn't adapt to and overcome. On the trucks...they got three newer Pro-Stars recently. NICE trucks. I ended up lucking out and having one of those for my DMV evaluation.

    As few as 10 days late on a payment is generally enough to get your credit hosed.

    On the class size issue...that was really my only gripe. We had maybe 20 people in our class. At times, there was a lot of sitting around and waiting to do something. I can see classes of 20 or so, but 40...I don't see where they would have put that many people (there would have been no fitting 40 people in that classroom).
     
    bubbagumpshrimp, Nov 24, 2014
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