Western Truck School question

Is the fee $86.50? If so, it probably IS the TSA Threat Assessment fee.

 

I paid 86.50 for my threat assessment for my HazMat last month and paid I think it was 128 for my TWIC.

 

Are you in the class that started on Monday? If so, does anyone in your class commute from the North County area of San Diego county? Which other schools did you look at? What made you decide to go with Western?

 

I regret going with Western. What campus are you attending?

 

cwr327, are you attending Western Truck School in Spring Valley, San Diego County? Why do you regret attending Western? Are you in class right now?

 

I'm still in school at the Bakersfield campus. I finish school tomorrow (thank god). I don't know what it's like at the other campuses but the Bakersfield campus is in total disarray. I paid the $4500 for the 4 week daytime class. There were 8 people in my class. I thought that with only 8 people I would be getting some pretty good driving time, I was wrong. They have two trucks and they told me that they could only have 4 people per truck so 8 people is the biggest class they can have. The problem is that people from other previous classes who are testing or have previously failed their test constantly show up during OUR class time and take up one of the trucks. That leaves 8 people with only one truck for half of the day. One truck to do our COLA's, In-cab inspections, and exterior pre-trip. Forget about actually getting some driving time. Sometimes, if there were multiple people testing that day, we wouldn't get any truck AT ALL. One time our instructor stuck us in some dusty old brokedown trucks to "practice" double-clutching. On top of this our a-hole of an instructor would make us get out of the truck before we had even finished practicing our skills. We already barely had any time to practice as it was so nobody got a chance to improve and this would frustrate him and he would take it out on us. He would call other students who had failed their test before "losers" and tell us not to associate with them. The reality is that he is the loser and he can't teach for ####.

A bunch of people have complained about the lack of truck time and the behavior of our instructor so they recently rented a new truck and hired a new instructor. Too little too late, we're only a few days away from graduating. The only way I know how to drive is because I busted my ### and came in on weekends and nights to get extra drive time. There are a couple of people in my class who still can't straight back a tractor trailer and they've been there for 4 weeks.

The yard is a piece of ####. The landlord (not associated with the school) is too cheap to pave it so it's all tar and gravel. Parts of the yard are all torn up and you get stuck all the time. The bathrooms are absolutely disgusting. I've been in some nasty gas station bathrooms but these bathrooms take the cake. A woman in my class tried to clean the woman's bathroom herself but an instructor told her not to because it's the landlords responsibility. Well if he won't clean them then who will? The whole place is just dirty. For $4500 per student per class you think they'd be able to get someone to take decent care of the place.

Before I registered for class I was told that they would send out a bunch of applications to trucking companies and get me pre-hired. Stupid newbie me, I thought I was getting some sort of great deal. When i went there to get pre-hired I was handed one application to Werner. I asked about other companies. I was told that Werner is the only company that requires a paper application and that they would be in contact with other companies. That was a lie. Werner was the only one they applied to. They push Werner really hard. They have some sort of deal with them. There's Werner posters all over the walls, there's a bunch of pictures of graduates who now work at Werner in the hallway. We were told that recruiters from several different major carriers would come and talk to us. Only one Werner recruiter showed up.