Need help choosing a School in Baltimore

see if can can get a tanker endorsement and come to work at Foodliner.

 

Tanker endorsement is the easiest one to come by in MD. It takes a little reading of the manual and common sense.

 

You do know ccbc has a trucking class also. A four week class and a weekend class

 

Nope I didn't know that.

 

I'm an all state grad from Lester PA and I can tell you their training is superb. There is only 10 weeks in the classroom, the rest is honing your skills and driving which is gonna come in handy when you go to orientation and get tested on those skills and driving, shifting, etc..... You'll be PTDI certified, Smith system and professional tractor trailer defensive driver certified, and you'll know your stuff! There are some good companies that only hire all state grads because of those things, worth your time trust me. Premier companies that have just started hiring students for the first time in their history like New Century only hire all state students. Hope that helps!

 

I would not go to all-state in baltimore.. I visited them. They seem to have a cattle call with people.. They are about to lose there certification due to there student pass fail ratio is so bad. And the student to teacher ratio is also very high. The equipment they use looks to be from the stone age... For the price they charge 9500 i would expect a lot more..

 

Wow, did not have that experience in PA! Just the opposite actually and all the guys I was there with are working with good companies. The reason I went is because I have a friend that went to the Baltimore campus and highly recommended it. Matter of fact he graduated and got a good local job to boot!

 

The equipment is really bad, but it they are tools to learn on. Sometimes the worst looking ones are the best at learning on. The rickety old GMC Brigadiers from 30 years ago are excellent skills trucks, while the newer Sterlings they got from YRC can be a bit of a headache. We do have a few decent road trucks, and some not so decent. The school is trying to fix the pass/fail problem. Several instructors are being reassigned because of the failure rate. The failure rate should be coming down greatly in the next few months. The weekend classes were doing particularly bad, especially on PTI, but that instructor has been replaced with someone who drills the pre-trip inspection into the students' heads on a daily basis.

 

CDL schoolgrad, I was none too happy when they sent my favorite road truck (351) from Baltimore up to Lester 2 months ago. We got it back though. That's one fast old Freightshaker there. I got 65 MPH in 7th gear on I695 (Baltimore Beltway) pulling our heaviest trailer.

 

I just graduated at CCBC and I am in no means saying go there either. that cost me 3000. and it was a 4 weeks class and Lets just say i don't have too many good things things to say about them. what I can say is the fail ratio is very low. everyone in my class got there cdl.