Jason Cox, from Truck Drivers News, has stated that he thinks truck driving schools get by teaching the bare minimum. In a recent piece on the website, he says:

Students have been rushed through the CDL schools and some are only really taught how to shift gears and back up. A lot of schools last from two to four weeks, after which the students are rushed into the industry at companies without enough existing drivers qualified to mentor and further train the newcomers.

Some trucking companies only require a truck driver to have six months total driving experience in a commercial vehicle in order to become a truck driver trainer and begin training new drivers. Six months is simply not enough experience to be considered qualified to train new truck drivers.

I can't help but disagree. He himself went to a truck driving school, so I don't know why he's so against them now. And we do so much more than simply train a new truck driver to shift gears and back up...

Driver Solutions’ students are trained the basics in a classroom for one week, are on the driving range for another week, and then are on the road, with a trainer, for yet another week before they get their CDL license. After the student gets their Class A CDL license, they drive with a company driver trainer for another four to six weeks.

At Driver Solutions, we train our students to enter the highway with confidence, how to properly perform a pre-trip inspection, how to use the technology in the truck, as well as the common sense that goes with using new technology.

It serves no one to be a CDL mill, rushing students through the training just so they can get their CDL license. Driver Solutions provides students with superior CDL training & provides trucking companies with well-trained, quality truck drivers.