Females experience at Roadmaster Driving school, Dunn, NC~ AVOID AT ALL COSTS

This is not the first time that i hear about Road Master. I went to road master in Tampa FL in jan.2006 and it was not perfect, but i had enough time to get prepared before i drove with Star out of Nashville TN. If today they are doing this? this is a ripoff! Since three years ago, it seems that the quality of Road Master has gone down hill. I have heard that Community Colleges have been better and les expensive like the newbie that reported in GA, and there where two students plus him. If i were you pixiedust, i would complain and let the VA know about this Roadmaster in particular. If i had to do it again how to drive a semi? i would go to a Community College. Good Luck Pixiedust.

 

Most schools are barely adequate, to say the least. In my opinion, from what I read and hear, actual driving time is on the low side for all of them. Time for you to complain loudly.
Thanks for being a Marine. You can do this.

 

you and i are often on the same page windsmith, but the "as a taxpayer whos footing the bill" part was darn close to offensive. as taxpayers, we dont do nearly enough for the average serviceman, both current and vets. id much rather be "footing the bill" for someone who risked their life to help secure my freedom than someone on public assistance. not that i look down on all recipients of public assistance, but vets/servicemen should come FIRST. head of the line for everything. that is rarely the case, unfortunately.

that being said...i agree that someone with such a horrid experience should do everything in their power to get the school remove from funding lists. so sorry you had such a lousy experience.

 

What a shame. I atteneded that school when it was Interstate Driving Academy. 7 people in the class, 3 field trucks, and 3 road trucks in which 1 had 10k lbs in the trailer.

I figured as soon as they bought it the quality would go way down...........

 

[As a taxpayer who's footing the bill for your benefits, I would urge you to pass your experience back up the chain so that schools such as this one can be removed from the list of those eligible to receive benefits to train former military.[/QUOTE]

I hope you know that while in active duty and retired, us Vets pay taxes too.

 

do what dannyboy said.. complain up the chain.. and I mean to the agency that is giving assistance.. We don't need our money funding programs that don't work (most)

 

I hope you know that while in active duty and retired, us Vets pay taxes too.[/QUOTE]

I wasn't singling myself out; only stating the position from which I made the request. My apologies if it didn't come across that way.

 

You've already got the advice you need for backing, but as a newbie myself and one who initially severely oversteered, the technique an instructor showed me is to place both hands on opposite sides of the cross piece of the steering wheel with the steer tires straight ahead, then as the truck idles back, have both feet on the floor board, watch your mirrors constantly, alternating your eyes from left to right and right to left, if you see a bit more of the end of the trailer appearing in your left mirror, turn the wheel a bit to the left (an eighth of a turn at most), then look in your right mirror and as more of the end of the trailer begins to appear, turn the wheel a bit to the right. Keep doing this alternating procedure and you won't have a problem keeping the trailer tracking straight. Think about it this way, if your truck and trailer and steer tires are all lined up perfectly straight, theoretically, you would not need to adjust the wheel at all. Of course, this is never the case and you do have to adjust, but it helps in remembering to keep your adjustments very small, only enough to slightly move the end of the trailer back the other direction. BTW, in my 200 hour program, I personally had the steering wheel in my hand for a total of 15 hours and covered about 300 miles. It did not seem adequate, but I was able to pass the driving skills exam and obtain my CDL-A. Good luck!