160 Driving Academy of Kansas City

Positive experience: Instructors care about their students and they want you to succeed and be safe!

Fantastic experience: They are all business! If you not serious about getting your CDL then don’t waste your time! They are committed to getting you all the knowledge & skills to pass your exam at the DMV. Trust what they teach & practice it everyday. Big thank you to Jabrelle, she made the process simple & smooth. Love her for that. Thanks Dean, Dom, & mike for the help on the yard.

Negative experience: DO NOT absolutely DO NOT pay out of pocket for this academy. it’s a waste of time and they could care less about your future. 18 students and 2 instructors, the regional manager the branch manager and the yard director are a joke this company only exist because of the government grants students and Amazon contract. Please don’t spend your money out of pocket do your research go thru a better academic experience this is not the place to go wish I would have did some research before going with the first place I found near me. By the grace of god I got my CDL but with little to no help from any of the people listed above even corporate in Illinois is a big let down disgraceful of a company all around! Save yourselves a head ache of dealing with them.

Negative experience: I went to the Kansas City, MO location First off- they say have your CDL in 4 weeks. It took over 8 weeks! I completed my first week of online courses. I was supposed to go right into 3 weeks of yard training. I was told I had to wait a week. Then when I called to find out if I was starting the following week, they told me that due to a testing delay, I had to wait another week. Finally, I started yard training. My second day, the office called me to tell me I had to go take a drug test. Something I could have done while I waited those 2 weeks! I lost another week. So that was 3 weeks sitting at home. I finally was able to start yard training. The equipment is all crap. The trucks are barely functioning. The pavement is all broken up with rebar sticking out of it. People were getting turned away from testing because the truck failed inspection. They do not have enough instructors. Most days I would only get about 20 minutes total to work on my maneuvers and maybe 30 minutes of drive time. That’s out of an 8 hour day. The rest of the day I’d just have sit and “observe” while I waited my turn. When it came time for me to test, they brought me a 53’ trailer instead of the 48’ trailer I had practiced with the entire time. 5 extra feet changes a lot when you’ve been practicing for 3 weeks on a smaller trailer. I managed to pass but I credit my previous experience for that. Finally- as a woman, I was told I would have a hard time finding a job since I was a woman by an instructor. When I disagreed, he continued to say it was because men won’t be comfortable working with me because they won’t be able to make their inappropriate jokes without me reporting them. I had multiple job offers within a week of getting my license. The ONLY positive was the instructors- except the one mentioned above. They do their best when corporate starts too many students. They break everything down and make it easy to learn.

Fantastic experience: Hey shout out to all the guys at 160 academy especially dean, mills and j-mack on blue ridge, they really helped me face challenges that I wasnt sure I would overcome in 3 weeks, but by listening and studying hard I achieved success through their guidance and redirection