Star Truck Driving

Good school haven't been to the one in Oswego but hickory hills was good

 

flybynight12,, What was your instructor to student ratio there? Also, how long ago was that?

 

Wife and I went to Wolf CDL in Schaumburg. Would recommend it.

 

There was about 5 students maybe 6 and 2 teachers. I was the only one in my class so after two weeks I was by myself with 2 teachers there was another guy but he failed the drug test

 

Oh that was about 5 years ago^^^^

 

You were MUCH luckier than I. Their Bensenville school had me in a class with over 20 students and 2 instructors. They overlap their classes, so we thought it would "thin out" after the shorter term 160 hr students (or previous class's 240 hr students) passed/graduated, but it did not.
A great percentage of those students didn't pass the state examiners tests (PreTrip, Skills, or Road), so they remained in class, keeping our student/teacher ratio to unacceptable levels.

There were many days we should have been doing much more skills maneuvers & road driving, but had to twiddle our thumbs doing excess book studying because the instructors (only 2) gave skills & road priority to the "previously failed" students that remained. I was lucky only because I went into class already having experience, but all the unexperienced students were really 'short-changed', even moreso than me.

 

Wolf is just as bad. Our classroom went from 30 to 60+ by the time we finished. One instructor for the classroom portion. The good part about that school was the actual driving part was one on one.