Schools in southeast Wisconsin

I don't know about Fox Valley, but the one in Sun Prairie (Diesel Truck Driver Training School) is one to avoid. You get the bare bones basics only. I speak from experience, mine in 1999 and my hubby's in 2007. They were doing less in 2007 than they did in 1999.

 

Fox Valley Technical College is top notch. PM me for more info.

 

Diesel Driving School in Sun Prairie is a CDL mill. I did check them out a few years ago and the equipment was old junk. I know a couple of people that went there and they said it wasn't very good training for the price you pay for it, which is higher than a tech college.

Fox Valley is highly rated and not that far from you but here's my question to you now. Please elaborate on what is wrong with Waukesha Tech? They're right in your neighborhood. What is the problem there?? It's actually the first Technical college program that I've known to get bad reports on?? I would really like to know as I'm considering all 3 tech. colleges in WI that offer training. I'd think they would follow more stringent training practices with it being a technical college than the private for profit schools. The costs for any of the 3 below is around $2500.00 plus living expenses.


Fox Valley
Chippewa Valley
Waukesha Tech

Thanks

Have you checked out Schneider, they are working with Fox Valley and are looking for drivers on the east side of the state for tanker jobs too. You'd be right in their hiring area.

 

For one of the best CDL schools in the midwest, please check out these people:

http://www.spiritcdl.com

Very small classes and not far away from any point in SE Wisconsin.
There are people on this board that have attended this school and were very pleased with the training and job
placement they were given.

I know the owners personally and visit them periodically. They use real OTR trucks (vs a simple day cab) so you
actually learn in a rig that will likely be very similar to what you end up driving.

When I attended a school back in 1990, I had only a day cab to train in and learn from and it makes a big difference if you can train on regular OTR equipment.

 

I went to Spirit and was very happy with it and the company I went with was impressed by what I had learned.

Since it was a little far from Madison to commute, I just found a room to rent for the 5 weeks in Rockford on Craigslist.

 

Naturally I knew the Zen Trucker would chime in here...

 

Thanks for replying on Waukesha tech. Were the complaints about it from lack of training or was it I can't get a job locally so the school is bad? That seems to be what's going on with some of the posts in the driving schools section here. The course looks to line right up with Chippewa Valley and Fox Valley. I've only looked at it online through the schools website and it looks OK there.

I'll look for the reviews on it as well.