Central Refridgerated failed upgrade roadtest

Warning to all newbies that go to central refridgerated school. It is a crash course to get your cdl. Halve of your class will fail the cdl road test. Halve of you will get a trainer that only wants to get miles on his truck and not teach you. When you take the upgrade to get your own truck you will have to shift good and you will have to back between two trailers doing a 90 degree. The backing is the harder one. Halve will fail the backing because driving for 10 hours on the highway and practice backing between two white lines aint the same. Most importantly when you are terminated for failing the upgrade the second time, they will ruin your career by putting terminated on your dac report. When that happens otr trucking companies will require you to have 6 months of experience to hire you. You will have the problem of not getting the 6 months of experience because no one will hire you. And you are no longer a recent school grad because you were with a trainer for longer than 30 days. You will see that most companies dont recognize central school as accredited. You will ask central for your school records, they will tell you that you must pay for your tuition in full before they sennd them to you. Your whole last pay check will be taken away from you for school. You will get fed up getting turned down from jobs that you will go do a refresher course so that someone will hire you. But know one will because you have terminated on your dac report. You will contact dac fix services to get it removed. They will take your money and tell you that they were unsuccesfull.

How ever there is hope you can got to your dmv and give up your cdl a for a regular driver liscense. And start over and you will be a recent school grad. I suggest watkins and shephard because they have good training and you get to pratice backing after class on your own. Also werner because they dont have a road test for recent graduates. Your trainer will just pass you. Just remember to sign the darn pass sheet or you will take a road test.

Other line of hope is to keep your cdl and apply for swift. Swift will take centrals training up to two years. They are able to hire you because they are so big that they own the insurance company that wrights them.

Oh and if all else fails there is cr england refresher course. Pay for it upfront or they will jack you worst than central by putting breech of contract on your dac if you quit. And you will quit with them because your not dumb enough to do thier lease and they will tell you we dont have any company trucks available. Give them 90 days and go to shaffer.

One more plan. You can join the national guard or reserve as a mos 88m truck driver and then work for con-way, schnider, prime, maverick

 

I know because all of this happend to me. I chose to join the delaware national guard. taking me a while to get in because of a surgery i had years ago. and mean while i have swift orientation feb 21 2011 mon. 7am.

 

i did do a refresher at the exspense of unemployment benefits in 2009. swift said that was good enough. almost two years ago. and i worked for geyhound for a few months as a driver. couldnt do the commuter run for six months so now driving school bus. I will say greyhound has the best driver training in the country. very top notch. after training your still training. they make you drive 10 hours a day for a month with just you and a trainer that critques everything you do to a tee.

 

just think its terrible how otr companies like central and swift and werner just use that dac to ruin truckers lives. all i can say is screw otr. after a year go work ltl or food and beverage local deliveries. you make more money, home all the time, and treated better

 

rather 1 sided conversation !!!

 

No a Typical newbie that feels he got screwed. And I am to some extent he did.
But a Few notes.

Swift(Daddy) Central (Daughter)
Prime ( owns 4? % of CRE

That why those companys work w each other.

 

yes i was screwd. if i had known what i was getting myself into i would have went to my community college for my cdl. one way or another i will get back into trucking but this time with eyes open and guard up

 

there where serveral people that was in my class that went through the same as me. crappy training and failed road test. i was willing to go back to a good school and learn what i needed to work on. and because of the termination on my dac i have a pretty worthless cdl. only company that would hire me is swift. and shady no good dirtiest of them all cr england

 

Don't know if you are married, kids or what but I had to bite the Bullett go to CRST to get out there it sucks but sometimes you just got to do it.

 

married and got kids. but i need 1 year otr so i can get a great local job and provide for them. crst says they dont hire in my area. funny that before i got my cdl they sent me a whole brochure on why i should get my cdl with them. any way im really looking forward to attending orientation with swift. my recruiter says i dont have to take a road test and that i would go with a trainer for 6 weeks. but i read that there is a easy road test around the block and a straight back. im still a little nervous about taking any road test after what i been through. so im just going to relax and mentally prepare my self and hope idont grind gears.