Leaving the issue of money aside, do you think it makes a difference as to whether you attend weekend classes for a longer period of time (2-3 months) vs attending classes Mon - Fri all day for 1-2 months?
I would think the weekend approach would be slightly better because you'd be giving yourself more time to digest the material.
Trucking School - Weekend Classes vs Mon - Fri
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by web9204, Oct 19, 2019.
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Mon-Fri. You repeat stuff every day, like pre-trips & post-trips. It stays fresh in your brain. You go on the weekends amd work a regular job mon-fri, you will not retain the knowledge as well.
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There not much to digest it more of a repeat action better to do it 5 day a week then ever weekend just to forget by next Friday cause all you really learning is shifting and pre trip and backing
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Retaining proper backing/driving skills for me was easier with just the weekend off because I could focus 4 days straight on what I was doing wrong. Plus we were split up in 2 (3) man teams with one team driving and one on the backing pad at any given time. It’d drive me nuts to wait 5 days to get back in the seat if I was having trouble. -
We did our 5 days a week and still met on Saturday mornings to use the “dead” tractor to quiz each other on the pre-trip and the air brake sections.
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Granted you waste a LOT of time in M-F classes standing around or sitting in the sleeper watching the other students get their turn at the controls.
I think weekend vs M-F comes down to convenience and current job, not quality of learning. You don't want to give up your current paying job and become really stressed just to possibly get a 3% better training from a M-F school.
The weekend school may have better training if there are a lot less students and the training you get is more personal and less using 5 different instructors, with 5 different styles and 5 different names for common things.web9204 Thanks this. -
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