Sage is a horrible choice for a truck driving school, it's a big rip off!!!

iyam_spartacus · Apr 11, 2019

My brother just completed his training at Sage (in SLC, UT), and is now driving for FedEx. He's quite pleased with Sage.

GypsyWanderlust · Apr 11, 2019

I went to Sage. Each school is operated independently. Did you actually contact Sage corporate? The school I started with had a terrible pass rate and a road test backlog. I sent a message to corporate and the district manager set me up to complete training at another school rather promptly with no additional cost except the third party road test fee.

REO6205 · Apr 11, 2019

iyam_spartacus said: ↑

My brother just completed his training at Sage (in SLC, UT), and is now driving for FedEx. He's quite pleased with Sage.
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Really. Where do you work?

Lawhdog · Apr 26, 2019

Andromeda973 said: ↑

SAGE IS A HORRIBLE CHOICE FOR A TRUCK DRIVING SCHOOL!
YOUR BETTER THAN THAT.

Sage truck Driving School breaks federal regulations, feed answers at test time, and terminate students with a small learning curve with no refund!
Sage is honestly one of the worst places you can go to if you want to drive a truck. I went to school here and I can truthfully tell you that every single one in the class, all 11 of us, were in some way or another quite frustrated with Sage. I am still really good friends with most of the class and we all still joke about how pathetic it was.

Sage Technical Schools have a 100% passing rate. Me and my classmates soon understood how they are able to do this. They kicked out several students who were having just a little learning curve, and I truly mean LITTLE. They weren't much far behind me and would have passed but Sage kicked them out in halfway through the coarse and didnt return any of their money.

Truth is, Sage is a racket. If you dont believe me then just do the research yourself. They were on the news in Washington for doing just this. Just one example is Laurie T, who went public on the evening news with how Sage took her money and kicked her aside. She is just one of more then 30 people I have read about and spoken with.

Should there be a class action lawsuit? There are so many people who are disappointed with Sage and who all deserve compensation.
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Lawhdog · Apr 26, 2019

I started training with Sage in Ft. Pierce, Florida a couple of weeks ago and it is a great school. They have access to a DOT grant for Veterans that is paying for my training. No complaints here.

Orlandodriver · Sep 7, 2019

Andromeda973 said: ↑

I was one of the 3 students they kicked out of our class. They waited til the hour that the classroom portion of the coarse was finished as to not rile up other students. Me and another guy traveled over 1000 miles to go to Sage, dropped our whole life. The only people Sage passed were the people who had prior truck driving experience, most of which who lived and worked on farms and drove rigs on their own properties.

I'm a Yankee, and have never done anything like this before. When Sage terminated the three of us the instructors, and the program administrator told us all, individually mind you, that "we would never be able to drive a truck, some people have it, and other people don't". At least for us three, that statement couldn't be further from the truth. All three of us had learning curves, but we honestly weren't far behind the other few in the class.

Guess what, since I was terminated I went to a new non-corporate trucking instruction coarse and in the coarse of three-four weeks I can now do 90 degree backing, straight line backing, off set backing, and parallel park on the first try. I honestly cant believe how much I learned from going to a instruction coarse run by an individual! That is how it should be done, and you can too. People like this who run their own truck driving instruction coarse are all over in almost every state. They are experienced, insured, and have the people skills, common decency and knowledge to make you the best you can be. I have driven through some of the most ferocious snow storms, and icy roads in North Dakota now for three months now and Im doing pretty #### good- and making a ton of money up here in oil land!

I forgot about what Sage told me, "you cant drive a truck because you dont have it in you". They honestly thought I would give up because they told me so. What a joke!

Gregg Aversa, the President and CEO of Sage, is quite a corrupt man. The duplicitous philosophy he runs with his staff is quite corrupt. Sage is certified by an association called PTDI. Me and some of the the guys, as well as a group we have formed with 12 other people from Sage School, have been investigating Sage. A few guys and I personally spent a week in the states Federal Court house's library just to find out exactly what the rules are for truck driving school and what being certified by PTDI requires. Sage have broken so many rules that it is laughable. First off all of the test and grades are rigged. Anybody in our school can witness this. That is against PTDI rules. They are supposed to give you 4 hours of BTW (behind the wheel) each BTW training day. They never do this, its always an two hours and a half or three hours at the most. The teaching is horrendous, and so is the instruction.

Another person to be very careful around is a woman named Pamela L. She may be a bit of a null skull but she has a Narcissistic personality disorder. I dont know if she is still working at Sage after they closed down the school she was working at but she took over for the program administrator when he quit. They had no one else to take over when he resigned so it was up to her. She was so disorganize and unknowable that it made it very hard for us our of state students. In the very beginning we three almost had to call it quits because she had her facts twisted. She also broke down and fake cried in from of the class which we all laughed about around a large table for lunch because her personality is so easily recognized as narcissistic.

I will say this, it takes a specific sort of character to work in a place that is openly corrupt.

One thing I appreciated at the end of this whole experience is right when I was leaving one of the instructors pulled me aside and said "listen, if it was up to me I would never do this to you. I hate the politics we have to deal with in a company like this. Its not right what they did to you guys. This is what the world is like sometimes you have to deal with the dirty side and dirty people" then he smiled regrettably and wished me luck.

Its rare you will ever find someone who will defend the Sage program because they have done wrong to a lot or just the bare minimum.

If you have an account on Google you can have google email you every time it finds new keywords on the internet. This can be used to someone to find out if there are people talking about your company on the Internet, whether good or bad. I wouldn't be surprised if I representative from Sage or Gregg himself would come on and comment here to rebuttal all said. Ive seen it before, so Sage if you are reading this- We are coming after you, no matter how long it takes. There are too many of us!
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Yes, I'm the same way. I think some truck schools bank on people with previous driving experience. If you go in with no prior truck driving experience you're screwed.

Orlandodriver · Sep 7, 2019

Lawhdog said: ↑

I started training with Sage in Ft. Pierce, Florida a couple of weeks ago and it is a great school. They have access to a DOT grant for Veterans that is paying for my training. No complaints here.
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Have you ever drove a truck before training?

Twin Screws · Oct 4, 2019

Andromeda973 said: ↑

Gregg Aversa, the President and CEO of Sage, is quite a corrupt man. The duplicitous philosophy he runs with his staff is quite corrupt. Sage is certified by an association called PTDI. Me and some of the the guys, as well as a group we have formed with 12 other people from Sage School, have been investigating Sage. A few guys and I personally spent a week in the states Federal Court house's library just to find out exactly what the rules are for truck driving school and what being certified by PTDI requires. Sage have broken so many rules that it is laughable. First off all of the test and grades are rigged. Anybody in our school can witness this. That is against PTDI rules. They are supposed to give you 4 hours of BTW (behind the wheel) each BTW training day. They never do this, its always an two hours and a half or three hours at the most. The teaching is horrendous, and so is the instruction.
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Wanna know how I know you are lying? THERE ARE NO FEDERAL LAWS AS TO HOW SCHOOLS FOR TRUCKING ARE RUN! ELDT wasnt supposed to go into effect until Feb 7th 2020 but has since been punted for another 2 years. The feds dont have laws or rules regarding truck driver training, period.

Secondly, PTDI is an accrediting agency. They hold no jurisdiction over schools. Its a dying organization and 99% of the schools out there dont care about and are not members of PTDI.

Fine, Sage ripped you off. But you dont need to embellish with lies. Just get to work and put it behind you.

ruckusftlc · Oct 9, 2019

I never drove a truck before I had 0 experience when startet with school. It was frustrating because the people in my class already got a class b. I was embarrassed when it was my turn to go behind the wheel and backing up. Anyway I always came earlier and stayed to the end and guess what. I was the only one the passed the dmv test at the first try. I wasn’t with sage trucking school but I just here to say I almost give up at the beginning and now I have my cdl with all endorsements.

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