Even if you have a few years experience don't get casual about their schools. Abernathy Texas school in particular. I don't know about the other schools but I'm almost positive their standards are high across the board. You think you have seen it all driving a truck? Joe, Bobby and Fain will school you like a red-headed stepchild. Bobby is not just an instructor but a first responder emergency hotline operator who responds to accident scenes. Been doing that for years. Wanna hear about body parts of 8 children? You think these guys are messin around and will give you a break at school? Not gonna happen. They sent my casual clown ass packin on the second week and they were right. I couldn't quite grasp everything they were throwing at me, like trying to drink out of a firehose.

I only have 3 weeks of experience at WDT at their school in Abernathy Texas. Joe, Bobby, and Fain were the trainers. I would have enjoyed passing their class and continued working for WDT but I failed to meet 75% of the test scores by the third week. Other students continued on but I was let go. There were 8 of us. Mostly veteran drivers with prior experience. I was brand new at trucking and didn't have my head screwed on straight. I agree with their scores on my performance. They were fair, impartial, and did not fudge their scores for me for any reason. Very professional school.

I would have stayed at WDT but I bombed out of their school. It's not for beginners like me, and that's because of two things: #1. Smoothbore tanker loads kill more drivers in rollovers than any other type of load. #2. WDT knows this and holds a high standard at their schools. Ive heard that new drivers often don't make it through their school with a 3 out of 5 fail rate.

With a change of management and a pretty good size age gap in the new management and myself I felt the time had come for new horizons.