Great American Trucking Company

Considering the cost of most other schools ($4k-$6k), this one doesn't pass the smell test.

 

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1401+...24,-83.069295&sspn=0.006295,0.006295&t=h&z=20

I don't know if that's the school, but the address I found for it takes me to there.

 

great american truck driving school, that's the one i went to....and apparently so have a lot of others. they keep a list of graduates with pics, and the 995 was a special. the instructors were awesome, and one has actually been written about as a top notch instructor when he worked for another school. the area isnt the greatest (was told that, 'a little white girl like you, you don't walk alone around here' )when i asked if it would be safe for me to walk the one block from the hotel to the school. the school did pay half my testing cost (truck+test =$200). the 'special' i got did not cover the dot, or anything else, the only reason i got half the testing cost covered was because i paid online, and i got my dot before i went. the hotel does give discounts to the students, though, so that was good. they also do offer job placement assistance and are really quite good about it: not only do they have recruiters come to the school, they also will help anyone who is not computer friendly to check out different companies, help fill out applications, make phone calls to companies on the students behalf, etc. while i will admit it is not the best school out there, i was happily surprised by the quality of instruction. while i personally didn't have to have this, i witnessed one student who was having trouble getting the 90 down get extra time and instruction, another who was unable to attend every day due to work constraints was able to make arrangements to come weekly for an extended period of time, they offer a weekend class separate from the weekday class.... and let me tell you, as someone who literally grew up 'in the sticks', on dirt roads, and lives more than 5 miles from the closest village (yes VILLAGE), and is NOT used to city driving, they were adept at getting me over my nerves at the prospect of driving the detroit freeway. (OMG i've never seen so many crazy people all going nowhere so fast all the same time who dont look where they're going - including the wrong way up oneways) the whole reason i went there in the first place was because i'm a mechanic, and was offered a job as a shop hand, but part of the job description was having a cdl so as to be able to move rigs around the yard. a week into school and i got a call that they werent able to hold the job for me...but it didnt matter because i found out how much i LIKE driving that big truck, how much FUN it is (yeah, i know, novelty), and i made a TON of new friends.

 

That's funny, here in California people think the $4,000 schools are shady and the $900 schools are the norm...just goes to show...

 

all of detroit looks like that, or worse