Central Refrigerated Truck Stop

There will be times that you will bobtail home. If your last delivery is a drop and hook, or if you drop a trailer at a yard. If you bobtail home MAKE SURE that when you get your load going out you remind your DM that you do not have a trailer!

Don't assume there will be a trailer at the drop yard. Ask your DM to check on it for you!

 

I'm attempting to get in to the trucking industry and I was wondering if anybody could give me some information on Central's training school. I'm interested in knowing if it is one on one training, the length of time you go out with a trainer after getting your CDL, how many students they have in their training classes and how many actually graduate and pass, if there are trainers at Central for females. I have my permit and have passed the PTI portion of my test. My skills are the weak point, but I was much improved after having spent 3 weeks on the road with a friend. We only got to practice in truck stops when there wasn't much traffic, but that isn't often in a truck stop...LOL. I have about 8 hours of actual driving time, most of which was done in an industrial park; I did get about :45 minutes on the highway before I was sent for my test.

Any help or advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated. I haven't made it through all the pages of posts here, but I'm working on it. Thank you

 

For example, 25 started today in Fontana/Riverside, 15 survived until tomorrow. Make sure your background is in order, i.e. you report everything and don't have any outstanding tickets. Study beforehand because this is an accelerated class. Keep the attitude of no matter how much you think you know, you really don't know anything yet. Lots of learning is ahead.

I survived day one, so that is all I am qualified to talk about now. Tomorrow I should be qualified to discuss day two.

 

We have been warning everyone to be honest on the Apps!!

Well done Bootlegger!

 

Congrats on making passed the first day. Keep us posted. We will be there next week, if we survive the three day bus ride..

 

Thanx to all who replied.

I went to Roadmaster Training School, and even though they make it sound like you get lots of individual training, you don't. It's actually more like an accelerated training, also. We had 3 trucks and 2 instructors on the pad for approx 20-30 students. There were 2 trucks that were used for the highway training and these were the ones used for testing. There were generally 4-5 students in each truck when doing the driving portion, so there wasn't much time for driving.

The area the school is located in was in a flood area, and several of the days I was there, a portion of the pad would be underwater. The instructor who taught parallel and 90's told the students one day that they could practice their 90's if they wanted to, but he wasn't walking through the water and getting his feet wet to help them.

He never taught the blind side on either skill, and two of the students who did pass had to do the blind side. He said there just wasn't enough time to teach everything.

Again, I appreciate all your replies, and that will definitely give me something more to think about.

 

I knew the first day was severe judgement day. No surprises there, except for a few minor complaints about the work well testing procedures. When a fellow trainee, who could easily benchpress me expressed the same concerns, I knew it wasn't just my opinion. Anyways, it is what it is and everything today was handled professionally by all.

Back to the books.

 

OK, so what was the issue???

 

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