Smith & Solomon Commercial Driver Training School

They have a very high failure rate in NJ. Their success rate comes from the students they send out to Pennsylvania. The students who go to PA have a better advantage, because the course they are invited to practice on is the same course they test on. If you fail, you come back every 3 days and you start from where you left off. If you fail at a NJ location you have to wait 2 long weeks and you have to start from the very beginning (3 part test). Students have been at the Linden location for as long as 3 months to 15 months, and the school just continues to take their money with no problem. Their trucks are horrible, extremely old, and break down. If you get to go on the truck at 8 am you might not get back on a truck until 2:30 pm. There are lines as long as 20-30 students and they restrict you from trying other maneuvers, even if there are less people on another line. This school is a nightmare. The few people who do pass in NJ actually go to other driving schools to get hourly tutoring. So when they pass, S&S swears it’s solely because of them, but it’s not. The instructors are impatient. They yell at the students who never drove stick before. They are even worse on the people that speak little English. They are degrading in their approach and the manager there hates pertinent feedback or constructive criticism. He yells at the students during meetings for bringing up issues and concerns. The students in the yard are basically teaching each other. The instructors in the yard don't teach you. They just tell you to turn left, turn right the entire time you're there. The pro & cons are simple: they are cons. Again, people are paying other schools hourly rates as high as $75 -$110 per hour because of they aren’t learning from the deadbeat instructors. . They all regret signing a contract with S&S. Furthermore, the trucks they send to the road tests frequently break down and they have to send the students home.