Johnson County Community College CDL program

Does Kansas have a Johnson county, or is it a branch of the school in N.C.? Know the school in NC is top notch , and has one satellite school at fort Bragg . Did not know if they had started another ?

 

Just struck me as odd there were two JCCC schools . Thought one would have a slightly different name? Best of luck!

 

The one in NC is Johnston with a T. A top shelf school, for sure. The school mentioned by the OP I believe is Johnson, no T, and not affiliated with the one in Carolina.

 

What I was about to say. Johnston County is in NC, and the school is in Smithfield... as is one of the airports one of those CIA front companies said to have doing the extraordinary rendition. There's also a driving school (or at least there was) on US70 in Raleigh, just slightly west of the Garner/Raleigh divide, although I know absolutely nothing about that one.
As for this one in Kansas... no idea.

 

I can't offer you any specific info on that particular driving school, but can tell you this. Any Driving School that is associated with a State Accredited Community College is under the Accreditation Umbrella of the College. That means they are monitored by the State funding agencies and are accountable in ways that the private for-profit schools are not. One benefit of this is that a lot of the more reputable companies that hire student drivers give preference to those who got their CDL at a CC. Another benefit is that a private school will usually push you towards a particular employer (they must get some kind of $ ), but a CC has no vested interest in getting you signed on with any particular employer. They usually have a much wider range of "recommended" companies

 

KW: The JCCC is WIA approved. That means there is government money available to pay for the school. Call the Full Employment Council at 816-471-2330 and see if they can help you.

 

This is one of the reasons I hate the internet....people have a pulpit from which to say whatever they want with absolutely no proof or accountability.

Not for the purposes of being argumentative but for the purposes of being educational and factual, allow me to rebut EVERYTHING you said as not true. I was an outside recruiter for a trucking company based out of Dallas for 1.5 years and I helped design their own internal training program, so I know something about this.

Number one, most states require privately owned schools to operate under the same licensing and restrictions as all post secondary educational facilities. A quick google search reveals that Kansas truck driving schools that are privately owned must operate under the licensing authority of the Kansas Board of Regents. So all Kansas schools are held to the same operating standards of the state.

Number two, to say that companies give preference to public schools is patently false.....a complete fabrication. In fact, in my experience, the public schools I recruited from we're typically filled with students that received WIA funding for school and most of them were unhirable due to criminal backgrounds that were embarrassing to say the least. How they received funding or were even allowed to attend the school was beyond me. I visited a community college program in Houston to speak with students and I thought I had just walked into a prison rec room.

We gave preference to highly qualified drivers, not one school or the other. As long as the school met our requirements of 160 hours of training, we're state licensed and trained the drivers on manual transmissions, we would take their students. You learn very little in school.....ANY school. You are still a student driver when you get to your company. Companies want qualified drivers with clean records and a good work history and a desire to drive a truck.

There is no preferential treatment given to students from any public school over a private school.

No company pays schools for pushing students their way....again, complete make believe hyperbole you have heard repeated on this forum too many times I am sure.



OP, dont listen to this nonsense. Don't listen to me either except this.....go to the schools in your area. See their facilities, look at their equipment. See how many students are sitting around waiting to get in a truck. See how many instructors per student there are. Speak with a recruiter, find out more about the companies they work with....most likely they'll all be the same for the most part. Call the companies....find out who you want to go to work for and ask them where you should go in your area. It is their opinion that matters.

Pick a school based on quality training, affordable costs and availability of financing or financial assistance, student to instructor ratio, quality of equipment, call their regulating agency and check their placement ratio.

Dont make career decisions based on rumors and speculations that get constantly regurgitated on Internet message boards.