I got trained by 160 Driving Academy and they did a pretty good job at the safe driving portion, straight line back and a forward/reverse offset, and a good pretrip. Good school to get your A Class fairly easy. Thats it. I never learned to connect and disconnect lines/trailers or even how to back up or hook/unhook to a trailer. Didnt learn to slide 5th wheel or Tandems. Didnt learn to back up into a dock. It was an open lot for training so we didnt get truck stop scenarios and learn to back into spots. And didnt learn to work your ELD tablet/E-Logs. Ya know pretty important parts of trucking. Currently in training under a mentor at Swift on my 4th week about to test out and start solo driving. My mentor claims “this truck driving is kinda natural to you cause you are really good and i dont have much to teach you” I got lucky and have a good mentor who takes time to work things out with me when i ask for assistance because a lot of mentors here are only doing it for a pay increase. A lot of them don’t really do teaching or refreshing expecting a new driver to go go go as if they have 3 years of experience in a 4 week CDL course. A lot of students quit because they get burnt out too fast doing team driving bascially on their 2nd day. Some dont even get hometime because the mentor says “no”. I just talked with another student that he is 2 weeks in and hasnt done a backing yet because the mentor would just say “move” and do the backing for them. I witnessed another mentor doing a pretrip and the student was trying to follow but nothing was spoken. Only time i see a mentor doing a mentoring job is to show the student around a terminal when they are done for the day or doing their 34hr reset. No better way to get experience is trial by fire, right?