Ep. 84 - CDL Instructor Exposes Driver Training Failures || After the Crash Podcast

After the Crash · May 7, 2026 · 1h 16m

Board-Certified Truck Accident Attorney David Craig sits down with "Trucker Steve," a CDL instructor with over 50 years of driving experience, to expose the broken reality of today's CDL training system.

Steve spent 30 years at UPS before becoming a CDL instructor. He reveals how CDL schools exploit loopholes to push students through inadequate programs. From self-certification scams to 1:10 instructor-to-student ratios, these "CDL mills" are putting unqualified drivers behind the wheel of 40-ton vehicles.

✔️ How Sean Duffy's 2025 CDL crackdown misses the real problems

✔️ FMCSA…