Roadmaster driver school

I'm glad you are having a good experience at the Roadmaster you are at. My experience with Roadmaster was not. The classes are overcrowded - since they let you begin without paying first, some of the students that would eventually have to drop for financial reasons lingered all the way until the last week, wasting everyone else's valuable time on the equipment. The amount of practical training time is a joke - individual students don't even get an entire hour of drive time a day on the road. In other words - class A CDL's will be given to people who haven't even had 8 hours of experience driving the truck. Roadmaster is basically a CDL mill in the worst sense of the word - they train you the bare minimum to pass the test. You are trained, not educated. Educated implies that you are imparted practical knowledge to apply in a field. Trained means that you are taught to perform a repeatable action on command, much like a dog. If students actually came out of Roadmaster with a glut of practical knowledge, perhaps they wouldn't end up being funneled into companies like Werner and Swift (and RM wouldn't get their kickbacks). Some of the instructors were very competent, however, others were downright unprofessional in the way they behaved and talked to students, AKA paying customers. Insults and profanities were very common. The office staff was rarely involved with students, except in financial matters. They were not helpful at all in job placement. They asked us to write down companies we were interested in, and they would give us applications in individual meetings. I wrote mine down, and when I had my meeting, was handed apps for three mega-carriers that I did not ask for. I ended up having to take care of my own job placement after this.

Needless to say, if I could do it all over again, I would have gone elsewhere.

 

I checked into Roadmaster in Chattanooga. Most of their students are hired by Covenant here. They gave me a price of $6500 for the license. I had already checked another school nearby and it was $4300 there so I let Roadmaster know they were too high. The sales lady said RM had a cash price of $4995. SO we talked a little more. As I was leaving, I recapped our conversation and that if I brought cash, the class would be $4995. She said yes IF I was hired by a company that had tuition reimbursement. I asked her what that had to do with anything because I was paying cash. She was kind enough to let me know that the company with reimbursement would send them a check for the other $1500 but if I didn't go with a company with tuition reimbursement that RM would give me a 0% interest loan for the other $1500 ($4995 + $1500 = $6495). Talk about deceptive advertising. I am not sure that this tactic is even legal because I got this information from here by accident. I told her no thank you and turn around and walked out the door. In my opinion with Roadmaster, they are a scam.

 

please follow up with us how it all works out with the va and roadmaster in san antonio texas...i have been contemplating roadmaster in san antonio and using va benefits as well, hopefully va taking so long doesnt prevent you from graduating!

 

I've gone both routes, the truck driver school (i.e., Roadmaster, TDI) and the CDL program at a community or state college. My advice, if you want a quality education on becoming a professional driver and earning your CDL A license, is to ditch the driver mill schools (they are ONLY about the money) and go the college route. Just my opinion based on my own personal experiences. Plus VA seems to be easier and more prompt when going through a college.

 

I got my CDL A back in 2004 with CR England and drove OTR for them for awhile and then drove local for a few years. Now for me to go back OTR again I need CDL training again. I've been reading the posts about different Driving schools, just looking for some truth about them. Talked to Roadmaster in Tampa, FL and it sounded good if I pay the $4995 I don't have any contract to a hiring company. I was approved for Stevens Transport. Just looking for some input on Roadmaster and Stevens from somebody familiar with them. Thank You

 

I went through road masters in San Antonio tx in January.. The class was over crowded and we were under trained it was not worth the $6500 for what I know now and what I new before then is everything in the Texas transportation book, The only thing i had never experienced before was the the range selector and revving up on a down shift besides that I was bored out of my mind in class... very little truck time and I was lucky to get around the yard 1 time in the four hours we sat there!!! New drivers beware!! I work in the oil field down here and already had a job and they kept trying to get me to fill out applications for OTR... I told the lady why would I want to take a substantial pay decrease never be home... Im sorry but Im not going to go work for .28- .34 per mile...

 

Make sure you wont get stuck with another $1500 if you hire on with a company that does NOT have tuition reimbursement.

 

I went to roadmaster they did axactly what they said they were gone to teach me the skills to get a cdl I got that now as for the $1500 it is only to be paid by a company that has tuition reinbursement and a agreement with roadmaster to pay it to them I went a local company not a national company and I DO NOT OWE THEM OR MY COMPANY OWE THEM $1500 people have to realize that roadmaster or any other 3 or 4 week driving course is not gone to teach how to be a truck driver

 

I got mine through Miller-Motte for about $2000 the VA paid it the second week I was there. The classes have 6 students in them and 5 instructors that are very helpful. I recommend that anyone looking gor a great school look into them.