160 Driving Academy of Oceanside

Fantastic experience: This is a very good place to go to learn and get educated about how to drive a big rig truck !

Negative experience: Bad service,many students,only two trucks working ,you don't get enough hands-on skills,driving ,you spend your whole day doing nothing,they don't fix their trucks ,they trucks fail DMV inspections,and students fail because they lack enough training,instructors are good specifically Winton . Corporations' lack of equipment and solving their problems,I had a bad experience there

Positive experience: Went here to get my CDL. The trainers here (Mark and Winton) are very experienced and will make sure that you learn the skills necessary. They're also very down to earth guys that you can joke around with so it's a casual learning environment (a positive). There were a few downsides (which were specific to the Oceanside location) but I want to emphasize that the trainers are not at any fault for them. The first downside was that practice is done in a dirt lot. When the wind picks up dust gets everywhere, and the trucks cause ruts over time and can spin the tires from losing traction. It would be much better if the area was paved. The second downside was that there's a lot more students for the automatic trucks so there was a quite a bit of downtime between taking turns to practice. Also, on days where a student was testing at the DMV (which was often) the "main" truck would be gone until lunch or later. During that time another truck was used to practice skills with but it had different handling characteristics and wasn't the truck that we would be using to take our DMV test. I personally found that it was a waste of time practicing with a truck that handled differently than the one we used the majority of the time and would be using for our test. These are all problems that are up to the higher-ups to fix though - everybody at the yard (Juan, Mark, Winton) have their hands tied and were just as annoyed by the issues as everyone else. Those downsides considered though, I still passed my test and got my CDL - and everyone else I went there with did too. That's all down to how good the trainers were - making sure we still got all the skills necessary for our test. So while it would be nice for corporate to spend more money on maintainence, more trucks, and a better lot (God knows they're making a ton of money) you will still pass your test by going here and that's what matters.

Positive experience: This is a very good school and the instructors that they have there are very good and informative. I have only one issue and that they laid off an instructor and there's a lot of students there. I feel like they really shouldn't of laid off there instructor. Cause there's a lack of them. And I paid good money to get my cdl license. Lack of instructors to me means lack of instruction. I feel if I don't pass my cdl test it's because of lack of training so why did lay off an Instructor? This is very concerning to me.

Fantastic experience: My experience was great. I called Sarah, she set up an appointment to meet with me right away and throughout my whole time in school answered all my BS emails instantly. (After I finished she emailed me a bunch of open job opportunities) The yard. Juan, Winton, and Mark... I never drove a semi with a trailer before. I started driving around Oceanside grinding gears and by the time i was done, i felt like an expert. They taught me all the techniques I needed and how to pass the DMV test on my first try. (One and done club) Thank you guys. I believe I learned something valuable from each one of you.