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Post by Lennyola on Nov 26, 2004 19:28:14 GMT -5
The school that I am looking at offers a five week course. It is pretty comprehensive and they affirmitively answered most of the "Questions to Ask a Driving School." However, I wondered about their answer regarding "How much driving time do I get in over the 5 week period?"
Their answer was, "60 hours."
Is that good? It may just be me, but that sure does'nt sound like a lot of time over 5 weeks. What do you think?
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Post by truckertom on Nov 28, 2004 12:55:37 GMT -5
That is not bad, you do continue your training when you go with a company. We have a student that has been with us for going on 6 weeks now, and every day he starts over at ground zero. He is never going to make it!
For some folks, 162,425 hours would not be enough.
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Post by buffalosnow on Nov 29, 2004 23:20:34 GMT -5
I did 602 hours for 15 weeks and that was alot but to others it still wasnt enough time. Dont remeber how much of that time was with driving but it was ALOT! After one week classroom it was pretty much all out in the yard backing trucks.One thing that drew me to that school was it was the only school in buffalo that actually had you back into a dock(old red star terminal) all the others just had cones to back up too.Backing to cones and backing to a dock are completly different.After I slammed the dock a few times I learned "hey that hurts the back" It doesnt help the trailer either ;D I'll never forget one student that got nervous with the instructor next to the truck and she flipped the splitter and hit the dock in hi reverse.That was LOUD.This school is togh they wont let you take the road test until you pass "there" road test and it is 100 times more difficult then new york states test.NYS test is a joke.Included in there test a student must get a min. grade for backing to take the stae test.Dont remember the min. grade but it was sight side back,offset back,straight line,and blindside back.Parellel parking too. woah im ramblin on here just giving some of my school experineces. good luck lennyola Buffalosnow
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Post by truckertom on Jan 2, 2005 11:51:09 GMT -5
"For some folks, 162,425 hours would not be enough"
That student never made it. He took the driving test 3 times and did worse the third time than the first.....we had to send him home.
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Post by Tinman on Jan 28, 2005 8:15:40 GMT -5
dont know if this thread is still "on going"... but while i was in school *21 straight days, 7 days a week*, i had 32hrs BTW *behind the wheel* on the range, and about 10hrs "on the road"... i picked it all up fairly quick, as did most of our class... i thought our class was actually too long for us... they could have actually tested most of us at the two week period...
*a note about ASU Newport Arkansas... we started with 25 students... by the end of our first week in class we were down to 20... on test day, everyone in the class passed, and passed fairly high on all tests...*
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