Shippers choice in virginia is a rip off!!!

They tell you all you need to do is make a 400 hundred dollar down payment and that's all.. But your first day of class they send you in the office and say your down payment was 500 so you have to pay an extra 100 dollars.. Very unprofessional school and they do not teach you how to back up, and that is what you have to pass at the dmv to get your cdl.. You have to pay all this money and you will be stuck with a crowd of people that do not know what is going on.. They don't care if you get your cdl or a job they just want your money.. So do not go to shippers choice they have 3 in the state of virginia but the training sucks, the instructors never did a full pretrip, never showed us how to back up, they have only one good instructor but he stays busy trainging people how to drive but the other two really don't care about your training they just getting a paycheck to sit on there ### allday, so beware and stay away !!! Plus they have people from previous classes that failed taking up all your time and training.. Basically it's the students training and learning from each other, no help from instructors which is very sad to say!!

 

500 was just my down payment , the school is charging me 5 grand for training.. This my first time ever at a trucking school but I thought they suppose to train students how to pretrip and back up, all the safety videos they show us on DOT and safety rules then why not show students how to back up that's all I'm saying..

 

Maybe you had help a long the way but most people don't and never been in a truck ever in there life, so backing can be very difficult for some people, but if you paying a school to train you that's there job to do so.. It shouldn't be students learning from students with no help from the instructors that's only setting your self up for failure!!

 

I went to the one in NN.. Just be prepared to learn a lot of things on your own.. I don't know how the one your going to trains there students but it's all the same company.. The pre trip and backing are two of the things you want be trained on. They only went over it with us one time, but the driving part is really there biggest goal for new students.. But you have to pass your pretrip first at the dmv to move to your backing and then on the road.. If you decide to go with them I wish you the best of luck but I wouldn't recommend no one to go there.. If you can try to look up other training schools in your area they might cost more but it will be worth it and you will get the training you deserve..

 

So you got your cdl? How hard was the curve backing at the dmv?