Brake System

Is it really not typical? The only reason the program was shut down was because one of the instructors was a former DMV examiner and our pass rate was 20-30% at best, so the school came to the attention of DMV officials and that prompted an investigation. I read a lot about "diploma mill" schools on here before I went. I also read that recruiters lie, but you don't expect the lies to be as bad as the ones we were told. One of the issues was our training period. It was supposed to be for three weeks, but they cut it down to twelve days and had us testing on the 13th. We didn't have enough trucks or instruction. Students were teaching students, so we weren't learning things correctly. One of the things I was told was that you always start off in third gear, and that a truck has two braking systems. I'm correcting this in my writing now. The thing is, there were students who had already been through the same thing at other schools. And I kept in touch with some of the students who were cut and sent home before the program was shut down and they were still held responsible for the tuition. We were very lucky that things played out as they did and we could walk away from this mess, but it doesn't seem that that happens very often. But bad trucking schools, that is a really big problem.