The Bordentown, NJ facility I attended accommodated me in all critical areas of Class A tractor trailer training. All of my instructors (Jill, Tom, and Don) did their level best in preparing me for my MVC examination. The net effect was I passed all required components of the exam after less than three months of training. All in all, a very rewarding experience. Thanks Guys! Read Less

To put it simply this place is a racket and a horrible school to spend your money with if you're interested in getting your CDL. Don't go to this school if you can avoid it. They don't treat you like a customer here but more like a subjugate or a second class citizen. They have a terrible facility with a bathroom that is always out of order. One old, lousy, stinky and dirty bathroom for a whole lot of students. They don't even have a seperate bathroom for women. Not to mention that the plumbing is poor and the toilet doesn't flush. Their parking situation for students is despicable as well. The parking for students is reduced to only about 1/5 of the parking lot. Most of the good, available parking spaces that they have, are there for their administrative staff only. If there are no "student" parking spots available, they make you park at the gas station next door and make you walk back. No respect or hospitality was my experience while there. Then they send you out to the yard, only after you've acquired your permit. Here, you are supposed to get the practical training you need to get into the trucking industry. But the yard is very small, their equipment is old and beat up. Also, be careful not to get ran over by other trucks as you are walking to and from their yard. It seems like the small area of the yard that they rent has many other uses besides being a CDL training school. Now once in the yard, this is where you are supposed to go get your practical training but most of the time, you are really just on your own, without any direction, nor instruction or even supervision. You literally spend the majority of your day standing outside for hours waiting for your turn. Hoping that you are not skipped and that you can teach yourself how to complete certain maneuvers. It's like the blind leading the blind at Smith and Solomon commercial driver training. You get most of your schooling on your own and from the students themselves. They give you only the most minimal level of attention. The only instructor that they have in the yard with the students is a woman instructor who is very mean and unpleasant. She is disagreeable at best and bad-tempered. You might get a few tries at driving the tractor trailer but most of the time you are just a spectator, watching others and talking with the other students. Such a waste of time and money in my estimation. A far better investment, in my opinion, would be to go to a CDL school that provides one-on-one training. The reason for this is that in a truck driving school like this, you are the customer. You are the one paying for the education and the instructors are there to work for you. Without you, they are out of business. Whereas at Smith and Solomon they are constantly talking down to you, yelling at you and reprimanding you for every little thing. As if to say you owe them something. Your chances of graduating with a CDL are greater in any other school. Smith and Solomon tries to place you with one of the worst trucking companies to work for. Werner and they are constantly trying to recruit students from this school. Don't fall for it. Again, this school is a racket and I am not sure how much they paid the woman who wrote the first review. This CDL school doesn't deserve our business. Read Less