160 Driving Academy (Driving Range)

Fantastic experience: I just wanna say I really enjoyed my time at 160 driving academy. I wanna thanks all the support from the instructor to the students that was there when I started to the 1’s who started with me. I would recommend anyone that’s trying to get their CDL to apply 160 driving academy. People can say what they wanna say but 160 driving academy has blessed me to accomplish 1 of my goals in life thanks to Dennis , Jason and Josh I really appreciate y’all

Fantastic experience: I was there at the same time as the guy that posted the comment under mine, his problem is he's like a 50 year old man that wants them to hold his hand and baby him, he was a terrible driver and that was clear from the first day. Some people have no business having a cdl and I'd say he's one of them. If you need a instructor to tell you to adjust your seat for your driving or how to use a brake pedal thats a problem, all he did was complain when he was there and always came late and left early. I had a great experience and I wanted a ton of other people come in and pass with no problem.

Negative experience: I want to express my regret, disappointment, and overrated dissatisfaction with enrolling in this CDL Class A Training Course at 160 Driving Academy (Olive Branch MS Office) through Amazon Career Choice. Honestly, I don’t want to vent about the first three weeks on the theory part, as it might be late now. Instead, I want to share what I have got and experienced since October 21, 2024 (week 4 - week 8) from the training part on the yard or range at 5641 Pidgeon Roost Road, Memphis, TN 38118, which is horrible and shocking. First, a few yard instructors communicate well and clearly while training and regarding other issues. The rest show bad communication, like barely speaking, ignoring my questions, not listening, and not responding when I call them for training. I feel like I’m begging for something. Most of the time, they cover their faces with hoodies, put on earphones, and are busy talking and using their phones on the range. It’s weird because I don’t know if they are there for training or doing something else. Second, this is my seventh or eighth week, and I don’t know what I should do or learn in the two training days I attend each week. The team there doesn’t share with me what I should expect to learn in advance each day. They don’t supervise, evaluate, and follow up. Most of the time, I sit in the yard doing nothing, just wasting time. It seems there is no truck training plan or foundation. Third, there is something to happen on each of the two training days, like several breaks in the trucks leading to slow down any learning progress and more wasting time like leaving the site early or doing nothing. This makes my time severely critical because I will join the U.S. Navy in mid-December 2025, and I still feel like I need help, have not progressed, and need to prepare more for the CDL test if there will be one at the beginning of next month. I shared this matter with the yard lead manager, “Mr. Pat, that he’s still not texting me back his email since this morning,” and with some other instructors, but it seems useless due to all the reasons I am mentioning here. The current method of this truck driving training lacks stability, efficiency, and any alternative or another priority plan to keep the training on, especially for Amazon students, including me, whose time scope is limited, sensitive, and intolerable for any careless and irresponsible effects. Fourth, many yard trucking instructors consider or train me on the truck like a pro driver. They think or presume I should know everything in advance. They are not patient enough and don’t offer even basic information. They get mad if I keep asking. For example, none of them gave me a full or at least a brief introduction about how to manage myself inside the cab, like driver chair settings and other in-cab functioning buttons. Another devastating example was one of the truck instructors who sent me on a first road trip without good communication, prior route information, and clear warning or caution tips and instructions on how to interact with the truck braking pedal and other in-cab tools on the road. So, I needed clarification and needed to drive better. Instead of helping me out, he went mad, hollering and bullying me (saying I don’t understand, I don’t know English, I don’t follow the instructions, and I’m a threat!). Unfortunately, there were no positive vibes, encouragement, or motivation, no good words/ethics/manners, nothing, and I left sad and down, unwilling to come the next training day. Fifth, current instructors mix the new students with the ones before them, yielding fewer chances for the former or earlier students to learn and practice more. Lastly, I'm sharing this with Amazon Career Choice's top management to review and consider further investigation and legal consequences from many perspectives (internally, externally, directly, and indirectly).

Fantastic experience: Brown will always see that you are OK and able to stay focused. He will not steer you in the wrong direction. GREAT GUY TOO THE FULLEST!!! Get there, be serious and you'll be ok

Negative experience: If I could give this place no stars. I would the office people are okay. The yard is a hot mess baby don’t waste your money or your time. you’re be better going to road master. You put a 160 student up against a road master student. I promise they gone fold. They don’t teach you anything about log books. You don’t have a class about pti. nothing. But I can say Sharod and Brown ,Al and Gary was so nice and willing to help you. If Sharod was running it. It would be straight. But the mess they got in there. I took that L and went to road master. I’ll never speak good on that place. Sharod and Brown y’all better come get a job at road master. Raggely a trucks‍♀️Yall can close the whole yard down. ️ don’t go why it’s hot !!!Water strike!!! You gone listening to all the r&b in the office and in cheap Incense burning I keep going and going but that get talked about often so no need for me to going. Have a great day

Fantastic experience: Only....... if you are serious about attaining your cdl!!!! You will be instructed on getting your CDL., and, you will get it.

Fantastic experience: My experience here is something I will never forget ! I am so grateful to have had instructors like NIC , BROWN , AND SHERROD !!! They are the best and truly want to see you win . I wanted to give up so many times when I got frustrated but NIC never let me he pushed me & for that I am forever happy I chose to come here . Best school hands down . #BIG TRUCKHER

Positive experience: It's fine

Fantastic experience: Instructors are experienced drivers and help one focus on the skills necessary to pass state exams for obtaining CDL. One can expect all pre-trip exterior and interior requirements as well as straight line backing, off-set left and right, 90 degree backing, parallel parking and over the road driving.

Fantastic experience: Brown, Nick, and Charrod guide you through every step thoroughly. Very good people, highly recommended trucking school.

Fantastic experience: Great team!!!!! They will teach you what you need to know to get your CDL

Positive experience: This school is okay but the training yard need some improvements quick they have a dry dirt rocks road that they train on so the dirt is causing a hazard due to wind condition when you out on the yard training the dirt clouds the air continuously getting into your nose and mouth and about time you leave you are covered in dirt from head to toe. So I say the students here need a safer ground to practices on Thank You.!