The Michigan Department of State (MDOS) has summarily suspended the operations of a Detroit truck driving school for violations of the Driver Education Provider and Instructor Act (DEPIA) after finding that the school charged students for hours of commercial driver’s license (CDL) instruction they did not fully receive, costing them money and creating barriers to completing the federally required training needed to enter the trucking industry.
The MDOS Driver Education Unit issued a summary suspension to Detroit Training Center Inc., located at 5151 Loraine St., on May 14 after an initial investigation by MDOS found the school misled students by providing fewer CDL instruction hours than it had contractually promised for completing the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Entry-Level Driver Training curriculum requirements and allowed students to sign or initial training documents containing blank fields that the school later completed.
The school also failed to have a written agreement with students before instruction began, allowed individuals who were not the owner or designated representative of the school to sign student contracts, failed to maintain required student records, and kept records somewhere other than its established office location as required.
The MDOS Driver Education Unit issued a summary suspension to Detroit Training Center Inc., located at 5151 Loraine St., on May 14 after an initial investigation by MDOS found the school misled students by providing fewer CDL instruction hours than it had contractually promised for completing the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Entry-Level Driver Training curriculum requirements and allowed students to sign or initial training documents containing blank fields that the school later completed.
The school also failed to have a written agreement with students before instruction began, allowed individuals who were not the owner or designated representative of the school to sign student contracts, failed to maintain required student records, and kept records somewhere other than its established office location as required.
