DRS

What kind of money are they asking you for?

Seems to me they're only doing something you could be doing yourself.

 

Well... I'm pretty green myself, but my impression of this industry so far is that nobody in this business is out to do you any favors and nobody is in it for free.

My advice is to be careful and watch your step.

 

i went to transport tech,and they lie to get you to come to the school i had a dui and lost lic.for a few years.and they told me it dont matter ,they did get my cdl.but,they are state funded so they just want paid.so i listen to them and now i have a no good cdl and the trainer we had sat there and let us find out for are self,even if we didnt get it.fail test frist time and spent 7hr to pass the next time.then took test and passed.i just feel they just want me there to get paid becase 10 apps and never a call back,but i should of look into it more,and most all trucking co.wont tell me why there no even going to give me a chance. so if you have something in past check before you even sign up for school.i not saying they are bad school butthey dont tell you every thing,i went to one in meadville pa that shut down now,becase of funding

 

My very first trying-to-get-cdl experience was with DRS. They act as a middle party getting you hooked up with one of three companies. They charge you $200-some just to place with someone you could've called yourself. It's practically a scam. I was young and uneducated enough about trucking back then to actually pay them. Then they refused to answer my calls. I finally got through when I called from a different number. The person I had talked to magically quit, so they said they had no info on me. Then the story was that no company wanted me and the money is non-refundable.

I emailed threatening lawsuit and to call their state police, especially after their address was in a field somewhere by railroad tracks. And no, there was no building. Just grass. The whole thing was very sketchy from the start. They sent me a check for my money and that was that. There's quite a lot of the same story I just told you all over the net. Stay away from DRS.

 

they never ask me for money,becase the state funded my cdl school,but it dont do any good when noone wants to hire me becase,of passed dui in 1996 and i do online apps. and the one i didnt put dui.and they want me to call but i lied just to see,but im trying i might get a break.roehl prehired me,but just tryed them and they didnt give me answer.so i called them and they said cus cant get into canada,becase of dui and ask how long they go back and she said we drive 48 and canada and wont answer me i said whatever good by.

 

Call Stevens Transport. They seemed to be pretty forgiving of things far in the past. The only people I saw them turn away were felons. I enjoyed my time in their school. Hotel was pretty decent too.

 

I've been on the road 6 years now, noone is going to give you anything. If they offer its strictly because they get something out of it. Even the "state funded" programs are full of crap. If you can afford it, go to a tech school and get your cdl then find a no experience mega company that will hire and train you. Get your exp in without being under a contract and go from there.