Western Pacific Truck School Modesto, CA

I sent Western Pacific Truck school an email with a variety of questions a few weeks ago and never got a response. So I emailed them again a few days later and never got a response. Finally, I called them up I was given a recruiter who said he'd call me back in a half hour. A hour and a half later, I called up again and the lady told me the guy would call me soon. 20 minute later, the guy calls.

I was hesitant to even call them since they weren't willing to even responde to my emails, and I was even moreso after the huge delay in calling me back, but I can understand how someone can get too busy to call someone, and I wanted closure.

Anyway, this is where the story gets funny. The recruiter first mistook my name as Bryan instead of Ryan, and I didn't bother to correct him because I didn't see why it mattered at the time. After he called back, I decided enough was enough and corrected him. After he talked my head off for a while, and I put into question my ability to get a job, he compared me to the Bryan fella and pointed out how he sounded dead on the phone to show how much of a better candidate I was to him (If you don't follow, that was me.) So in trying to recruit me, he ironically insulted me, and I never pointed it out to him. It's just plain hilarious.

So that brings me to the actual question. As far as I could tell, Western pacific truck school is well reviewed, but so far my experience with them is not painting such a perfect picture. Does anyone here have anything good or bad to say about them?

And this is a question I had for the recruiter as well: My driving record is clean, my criminal record is clean, and my work history is also clean. (By my work history also being clean, I mean I have nothing to put on paper. I've only done odd jobs for cash.) What are my chances of getting a job in the industry without the work history?

 

What school did you end up choosing, Globetrotter?
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Ahh, so you're up in Washington. I hadn't realized western pacific was even up there. I'm in California I'm afraid. I'm not afraid of relocating for schooling, but I'm not sure if i can get a CDL from a state I can't prove residency in.

 

I live in an area that's about equally far away from stockton and sacramento, but I talked with the people from Stockton. Did you talk with Rick? He was trying to sell the whole thing to me too much. I called him for information, and what I got was how great everything was.

Anyway, he had said the first week is the classroom stuff, and then the next six weeks are spent driving with 2 - 3 guys per trainer for 4 hours a day. That means, assuming driving time is split up between the 3 guys evenly, each student gets 40 hours of driving with an instructor to themselves. Sage, on the other hand, gurantees at least 44, and they have a simulator IIRC as well. Both schools seem to be priced about the same. Western Pacific is a little higher, but they're also closer. ($4800) They are about a hours drive away from me though, which is a lot of driving everyday just for 4 hours of training. Hotels for a month would probably get very expensive.