This article originally came from a truck driving school blog
Here is the short and sweet abbreviated version to save you some time reading the entire article-
The quick and dirty truck driving school list:
- Check out the facility.- Since we are talking ablaut your neighborhood truck driving school here, you should make your decision in person. Go and see what the school has to offer. Is the facility clean? Are the employers happy to help you?
- Look at the training equipment.- Make sure the school doesn’t have a bunch of old rust buckets for training. After you get your license your going to want to work for someone so you better make sure you learn on current equipment because large professional trucking companies usually don’t have old trucks in their fleet.
- Ask your neighbors. – By this we mean ask people in the community or at the local truck stop to see what people are saying. Ask about the training program specifics. Ask what they think about drivers that attend that school. Are they safe or are they dangerous truck drivers.
- Check with work force service.- See I the truck driving school has tried to work with job service to get unemployed people training. Usually a quality school will have some sort of relationship with work force services or the division of labor. Even if they just have flyers or job postings it shows they are somewhat organized.
By following the items on the list above you can steer clear of the truck driving schools that could potentially rip you off. Good Luck-