$250 CDL School. Is this a good way to get a CDL?

Go to prime , they have a school and their training is top notch. All they ask is you stay for a year after you go thru the school. Cheapest way to get started.....

 

I don't have any experience with RoadMaster, but have you looked at Sage?

http://www.sageschools.com/sage-contact-30.htm

I am very impressed with the Sage by Denver. If money is a problem, they may be able to get you in with grant money or a payment plan. Never hurts to ask.

Whether you decide to do the company sponsored training (i.e. Prime) or pick an independent school, make sure your road training is one-on-one with an instructor. You have a much better opportunity to get your shifting and trailer awareness down when you don't have to share your drive time with three other students in the same outing. Each time you're behind the wheel at Sage, you're out for four hours in your own truck. No sharing. It's just you and the instructor.

 

Go to a school Forget that it has SCAM written all over it.....

 

Beside the fact that you will need to learn how to shift, besides the other obvious things, this school will not give you that training certificate you need to get a job, so it's nearly worthless. The money order payment thing just seems like a scam to me anyway. Seems like the kind of scam where they just get your money and never get back to you.

 

As a CDL student I can tell you that without getting behind the wheel and driving, you would never be able to pass the test. Moving a rig with a trailer is a whole different beast than anything else I have ever done. I have driven cranes, tanks, cement trucks, trucks with boat trailers and the largest class c RV I have ever seen, but nothing compares to a tractor trailer combo. We practice with a 28 footer which is difficult to back up!

 

Gahd yes. Those pups are SQUIRRELY in reverse. Backing a 53' trailer is nearly relief after a day of that.

 

Funny you say that (I believe you though) because I actually taught myself on a 27 foot pup and think its easier to backup than a 48' .......guess I got used to pups coming back around so fast, those 48's give me the hardest times sometimes lol

 

Try your local employment office. Here in Indiana thats how my wife got her cdl and the state paid for it. They had money for the training.

 

Stay away from that it's not worth ur time . Look in ur county there's federal funds that will pay for ur cdl theyI'll make u jump trhu loops to get it but is worh it that's how I did more than 10 year's ago

 

It depends on the individual. A private carrier I worked for trained guys out of the warehouse and after 3 days they were better drivers than a trainee that had come from an accredited school in Orlando. The driver from the school was the worst driver I have ever seen.
We have seen posts by drivers wanting to rent a truck to take their DMV road test. That is basically what this deal is. The only problem I see is the trailer states the truck has an automatic transmission. That will get a restricted CDL.
Some drivers CAN learn in a few days. Others can't learn to shift and back up no matter how long they try.
All carriers know all CDL training schools do is qualify students to get a CDL and many students needed several attempts to accomplish that.