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About Check Ride

Jeff smith, the owner of Check Ride, started this private vocational school in 1989 with the purpose of teaching inexperienced drivers the skills to become "better than average, well-educated" automobile and heavy duty truck drivers.

At Check Ride, we believe that anything worth teaching is worth teaching well; therefore we strive to take each student to their individual maximum potential during their training time at Check Ride. We make sure that when the students graduate they are competent, well trained, entry level truck and automobile drivers.

Our 3 ½ acre site, in Woodinville, WA just off the I-405 and Hwy 522 interchange, consists of an office and classroom and a separate 3,000 square foot truck shop. The remainder of the property is dedicated to yard space where we teach students the basics if safety, shifting and backing before we take them out on the highways and byways for their actual on-the-road training.