Sage Truck Driving Schools

celadon has a driving school. and they will hire you after graduation

 

and Stay AWAY FROM SAGE! Worthless training period! Wouldnt recommend them to anybody! My instructor in NC actually told me to go against federal law. What a crock! Also said he had 4 million safe miles in 15 years and that aint possible running one log and its a long shot running 2 unless your hyped up on chicken feed 24/7/365 and good luck passing a drug screen that way. I have nothing good to say about that school and i shudder to think that i share the road with people that graduate from that school. Was there 1 day and quit because i felt that on the first day if i was already being told this i wouldnt get proper training snd why pay 3800 for sub par ya know. Moron also said hed take a load of car batteries through a neighborhood. Yea have fun with that hazmat violation. It was pathetic been around industry since i was knee high to a grass hopper and listening to that instructor talk was pathetic. Log book mistakes were a simple dont worry about it instead of circle and initial. If your going to instruct do it right!

 

LOL chicken feed. Makes me feel like I am in Amarillo listening to the dingbat advertising dope on the CB.

 

I went to SAGE. It was ok. I went to Watkins Shephard after that, and they, as they do, sent me out OTR with no trainer. 6 months later went to flatbed. 1.5 years after that, got my LCV cert and am now hauling 124k loads through the mountains.

Seems they taught me enough to get started. I did and still do think I paid them too much though.

(And I guess 379exhd better not come to Montana.)

 

Lol well it sounds better than saying meth imo lol.

Hup which sage did you go too? Ive heard complaints about the ones in the carolinas. And yea i do my best to stay out of wy, and mt. No offense but the freight rates arent very good to get my flat outta there. School rates are ridiculous now days 3500+ to go to school for 30 days hell for automotive at a community college without tool tuition was only 14000 with all classes and books included and that was 2 years of schooling i just couldnt afford the $120000 in snap on tools lol.

 

I went to one in Montana. And ya, I think you can't generalize. just cuz one Sage is ok doesn't mean they all will be, but the opposite is also true. Thing with an expensive 30day vs community college is likely how much time you have. At the time, I needed a job asap.. so I had to penny-up.

 

Sage has mixed results depending on the location. The one here in Denver has operated, been shut down, reopened, shutdown, etc. for several years. Seems now they might have their act together, their office is across the highway from us (5th different locaiton), as they have stayed open a couple of years. We had one of their students apply some years back, he could barely drive a stick, and really didn't know how to do a log. We're not a training company so he was sent on his way.