They never gave up on me.

I am without a doubt, their ultimate victory story. When I came in, I had almost nothing. I was on unemployment, I was having my utilities shut off every month, I was out of hope, out of luck, and out of hope.... But I wanted this. I wanted it so bad that I was laying up at night unable to sleep hoping for a miracle. Then the American Job Center got me a grant and sent me to the Mineral Wells, WV location. I was a good student. I studied hard, and I did well enough but... I found out that I have the worst test anxiety that any of the instructors had ever seen. They saw me crushing through the practice exercises with almost little effort, but... when it came time to take that test, all of it, and I mean *all* of it was forgotten. I would get in my head. I would panic. And I failed that CDL test. A *lot.* The standard for the company was three chances before they stop paying for it and you have to pay for it yourself. It took me *six* tries to finally get it right. I finally did it today and I found out that the reason why this sixth chance happened was because the lead instructor Chad Davis, just like me, doesn't have an ounce of quit in his body. He fought for me to have every chance I took and he wouldn't let the higher ups cut me loose even if they wanted to, because he knew that the reason I was failing was because I didn't just want this; I desperately needed it and the anxiety was tearing me apart mentally. And today I passed. And despite him not being there when I did, he was having the other instructors on duty giving him the play by play of how I was doing like a big brother. He called me afterwards, and said that he never fought so hard for a student before, and he was proud that I proved him right in that conviction. So if you want a school that will treat you like a family, and step up to bat for you in ways that will astound you and blow your mind? Come to 160 Trucking Academy. They don't just make drivers. They save lives and make you family.

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