IITR Or Elite Truck School Oregon

I'm looking at schools too. Who is IITR accredited with?

 

IITR is accredited with ACCET. More information about them at: www dot accet dot org (System won't let me include links yet )

IITRs website is very informative, and contains all of the information that you need. (www dot iitr dot net) If you don't want to read it all, you can fill out a request for information on the website, and it will go directly to the President (and Owner) of the Company, or, simply call them and you will speak with Amanda or Dave.

Since you are in the Clackamas area, you will want to call 503-657-8225.

Note: I am the IT person at IITR.

Hope this helps.

Russ

 

Elite gives you the basics with a 160 hour course. it is very cost effective to get started in the trucking industry. Tv highway give u lots of training with shifting and dealing with traffic. Anybody can drive down the freeway and up and down hills. Truck driving require dealing with traffic and driving in city traffic to drop and pick up load.

they dealt with gordon and may trucking companys when i was there. your first company is the one that is going to teach you how to drive. the school is basic introduction.

Greg, Mike and Wes will treat you right. they are like family.

flipper69

 

Hi all,
I have looked into several training courses for truck driving and decided on IITR. I am soooo glad I chose them. I went to the Redmond campus and learned everything I needed for OTR trucking. I knew NOTHING about truck driving when I started. The instructors are AWESOME and very knowledgeable having MANY years of experience. I have talked to other students from different truck driving schools and they did not know HALF the stuff I did. Everything I learned at this school, I still use everyday. All the staff is helpful and eager to answer all your questions. They were sooo patient and encouraged me to succeed. I highly recommend this school to anyone who is serious about truck driving.

 

I went to the iitr school in albany,ore.. It was a very intense school... there was alot to learn and do.... altho if i had any complant it would be i wish the school would have given us more drive time behind the wheel... other wise it was a great exprences.... Ya the school was more money but i think was worth it... so i gess it all depends on what school you want to go to.. iitr does offer life time job place ment.. so that helps alot... anyway hope that helps you ...

quickburn71

 

Can you give me specifics while attending the Redmond OR facility? I am thinking about learning how to drive.

Thx

 

I recently attended IITR's Creswell school. It's just south of Eugene-Springfield and I'm glad I chose it over a school in a larger area.

It's a 4 week course, the first week is classroom instruction followed by 3 weeks of yard instruction in the mornings, followed by over the road drives. We had 5 students in our class, which is considered a large class, so we were divided into two road trucks, 3 students in one, 2 students in the other.

There are also 3 trucks available for yard instruction - backing, hitching-unhitching, etc.

The road trucks are loaded to about 40,000 lbs, hauling barrels of water in the trailers. You tow a mixture of 28 ft. doubles and a 40 ft. van the first two weeks, then during the last week you pull a single 28 ft. trailer, since that's the combo you'll use to take the Oregon CDL at the conclusion of the class (the examiner comes to the school and uses their trucks for the test).

If you don't pass the driving test, IITR will give you an extra week of instruction at no charge.

At the Creswell campus, the road driving starts out on lightly traveled country roads, including one with no traffic that they use as a shifting range. That's right, you can start and stop the truck as often as you want on a public road, work your way through the gears, etc., over a length of about 5 miles. Then either you or the instructor drives the truck on the nearby freeway back to the starting point and you can do it again.

Once you've mastered the "shifting range" you start driving in earnest. Their road courses are well thought out. You start out driving on lightly used two lane roads, up and down hills, around curves, etc. Eventually you work your way up to big city traffic with several courses laid out through downtown Springfield and Eugene.

I found this progression to be much more comfortable than driving in a larger metropolitan area with heavier traffic right off the bat.

There were 5 people in our class, which was considered a large one. The first week was spent in the classroom, weeks 2-4 were divided in half with yard instruction in the morning (there were 4 yard rigs available) then on the road in the afternoons. We had two road trucks, with three students in one, two in the other.

Both of the instructors - Debbie and Dick - have extensive truck driving experience and were incredibly patient and understanding. They start by talking you through every move you make in the beginning drives, then their commentary becomes less and less as you gain the skills. The goal is to get you to where you are handling the truck on your own, during the last drives the only comments are to tell you where to turn or an explanation if you're doing something wrong.

As far as job placement IITR offers free placement assistance for life. We had two recruiters come to talk to us, May Trucking and Gordon. Both were already on my short list. I chose to start with May and got a pre-hire letter from them the day after I applied.

I have a personal commitment to take care of before I can start work, so May agreed to delay my orientation until September 20th. The school has said I'm free to come by the campus any time between now and then to practice my yard maneuvers.

All in all, I'm very pleased with the instruction I got from IITR.

 

I attended IITR in Clackamas in 02...(I think it was 02 or 03)

The next day after school I was in a Gordon office doing orientation and that week I was with a trainer. I couldn't say a bad thing about my experience with IITR. I would have no problem referring someone to go there.

 

With a smaller class size, you would get more attention and more drive time. All and all a good school you will learn alot.

 

You said you still use everything that they taught you? Do you double clutch? Companies allow you to do that? I thought that was hard on a truck...