All-State Career School

Fantastic experience: Amazing staff who care about student success

Negative experience: This school is useless the staff and how they do things 16 students and 1 truck i I could I’d put half a star. The instructors showed ya one time and sat in there viechles and watched is struggle. I do not recommend this school they don’t care if you get your cdl they are only after your money.

Fantastic experience: Best school I went to for my cdl

Fantastic experience: From start to finish this place is top notch. Starting with Tammy in the office who keeps you informed with everything ahead of time, and she is friendly and helpful. Then to the classroom. Now we got Mike, this guy is spot on with teaching you everything you need for your CDL permit test. He leaves no page unturned and puts in the time and makes sure everyone is on the same page. Now to the range. Here we have Matt and Ben. Matt teaches you all the tricks and trades of shifting and maneuvering and you get plenty of seat time. Then there’s good ol Ben, that guy has more patience than anyone I know. My first day I thought I’m screwed but he takes his time with you and makes it easy to understand and he puts in all the time you need to get you ready for not just test day but to get on the road on your own. If you are thinking of going to All State do not hesitate. Do it now!! Thanks to everyone there for your true professionalism and for sharing your knowledge. Special thanks to Ben and Mike, man I can’t thank you guys enough!

Fantastic experience: It was great

Negative experience: is their anyway to give a no star rating? this school has pushed my testing for almost a year now. with no help of any kind and no attemp to contact me. i had to go to them many times just to see what happening with my testing would no recommend for anyone wanting to get their cdls quickly. and i still havent recided my cdls through this schoo . ive been calling all kinds of testers all day today so i can get a job. they dont tell you about anything to do with any real world driving

Fantastic experience: A wonderful school to go to. This school will help you in any possible way and never give up on you. I recieved my class B and that same day already had a job. Wonderful staff!!!

Fantastic experience: I want to start by saying such an awesome staff instructors and office folk very friendly treated me like family had felt very confident when I took the state test no issues what so ever my instructor taught me how be effiecnt and effective and if missed a gear we could talk about why I did what I did haha but very professional and such an awesome crew I definitely reccomend Allstate career to every one helped me get my cdl class A if do it over again if I had to thanks Allstate crew Chris Ken Angela Tammy Chad Mike

Negative experience: I got my CDL 3 to 4 weeks after my class ended. Had no prior experience with any kind of truck let alone a manual. I would say the only saving grace for this school is it's staff. Mike was my teacher/instructor and he was AWESOME! Tammy and Chad were extremely helpful too. The company however, does not seem interested in investing into this school and would rather focus on other facilities it owns. How can you take money from your students and not invest in trucks for them, or your own private lot so that they may have the best training possible and the company can produce quality drivers?! During my course we had to share a lot with the "state", who, 70% of the time was using it, meaning we could not. Did not have the proper time for maneuvers. Also during my course we struggled to get trucks that actually worked, we went through 3 trucks, 2 of which broke down beyond fixing, 1 of them being the school's actual truck. The school had to borrow 2 trucks from Gypsum Express just to keep class moving, one of those 2 trucks were part of the 2 that broke down, the 3rd truck was meant to replace it. All this in a 4 week period! This is not fair to the school's workers to be handed down the crumbs from other facilities and it is not fair to the students who the company is not providing the best tools for training but will gladly take the students money. My conclusion, if you have 0 experience and are just starting out in the business and desperately need the training, go ahead and take the class, it may very well take you longer than 4 weeks to get it, but the staff will help you the best they can with what little corporate is giving them. For those are have any type of experience and just need a refresher, this is a good course. I'm giving them 2 stars because the staff was a awesome crew. But corporate gets a 1 star...... 0 stars if it would let me!

Fantastic experience: Very great school and staff! Tammy was super helpful with me from the beginning all the way through the end of class and also followed up after class and helped with finding a job! She’s amazing! My instructor Mike was very good and I was beyond prepared for my written test and driving test ! Mike was very knowledgeable and also made the training fun ! Excellent school and staff and I highly recommend!

Fantastic experience: Great instructors and a good place to start your cdl career!

Negative experience: I attended school here in Nov-Dec of 2017. As another reviewer stated, the curriculum consists of reading line by line from the same handbook you can get for free from the DMV, along with watching some YouTube videos. The 2 women who took turns teaching didn't seem particularly knowledgeable, and would frequently step out and get the heavy equipment instructor to sit in. Twice he was accompanied by one of his students who repeatedly interrupted class time by flirting with a female student. About 1/4 of the time was spent listening to recruiters. After 2 weeks in the classroom it was time to hit the road, but they were short an instructor, so one Class A instructor had to teach everybody, and wheel time was seriously limited. For maneuvering, students huddled outside in the cold, taking turns behind the wheel. None of my class finished on our original projected graduation date. I struggled and it took until December 16 before I finished. Others in my class finished the week before. Upon finish I twice sat down with the office staff for job placement, which consisted of registration for one of those dot com job search sites, and a simple resume. No trucking companies were contacted on my behalf. Tuition was supposed to include the fees paid to the DMV for permit testing and CDL licensing. Mine came to about $64 and I turned in receipts at the All-State office. After a month passed, I called to inquire about my reimbursement and was told to be patient, that it can take some time. A couple months later I called and a woman answered the phone. I told her that I hadn't received my reimbursement yet and she said that she was not surprised, and that she had just came in from their home office and "had to clean house". She took my name and told me she'd be in touch. A couple more months passed and I began stopping in at the school to inquire about my reimbursement. The man there told me that they had a lot of checks coming in due to the backlog of students who were never reimbursed, and that I should just keep checking back in. I checked in 2 or 3 times more until he finally took my name and phone number and told me that someone would be in touch. The next day a guy called and asked me if I could produce receipts. I told him I already turned in my receipts and no longer had them, so he told me that he couldn't help me. The owner says he regrets bad experiences students had at his school, but has no interest in paying debts owed to students like myself who were ripped off, either through negligence, or the embezzlement of funds, by their employee. I have been in touch with the attorney general's office in both my home state of Ohio and in West Virginia. I also encourage any other former students who never received their reimbursements to contact the attorney generals of the state of West Virginia, and the state of any funding organization that assisted you in paying to attend school to report their conduct. Also inform the funding organization itself and ask that they cease to include All-State among schools that they work with.

Negative experience: Such a waste of time and money. Seriously this school is a bunch of criminals. The classroom time is spent reading line-by-line the same book available at the DMV free of charge. The driving time is limited and you are stuck in a truck with 4 other students all day. You’re lucky to get 90 min of driving time during the entire 9 hour day. Oh.... don’t forget about the driver recruiters you need to drive back to the office for 2-3 times a day. They took months to process my VA paperwork so don’t expect to get any money until months after you start. The Women in the front office also double as the instructors and told me how CMVs have hydraulic brakes. They read from the study guide, did online practice tests, and left us with recruiters. Such a waste of time.