12.30.2007
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2/11/07 Quote:
I cannot contrast the training I've received at CCC with any other company, as this is my first job in the industry. I can say that The trainer I shared a cab with for two weeks is truly a credit to the Comcar organization. He was a no-nonsense fellow who was pretty tough- accepting nothing less than my best effort and demanding constant attention to every detail of our time spent on the road, ranging from the open interstate highway, to the stress-filled roads in and around Washington, DC, and Baltimore.
While not lavish with praise, he did point out when I was making progress, and encouraged me to keep at it when I suffered any setback. He was very generous in sharing his vast knowledge of the trucking industry acquired over many years of driving. Completing my training evolution left me feeling as though I had just graduated from Boot Camp again, that I had survived a road test lasting many days, and that I had received a thorough indoctrination in how serious an undertaking the work of the professional driver is on America's crowded highways today.
Consider how tough it must be for trainers- to turn their cab over to an inexperienced driver trainee, to bounce around in the miserable passenger seat of a day cab, all the while having to be hyper-vigilant against any life-threatening mistakes the trainee might make during long hours spent in traffic. My trainer was a very special guy, who earned every cent of whatever he receives for training new drivers for the company.
| 7/27/07 Quote:
This is rich. I was assigned a trainer who was as tough and demanding as any Parris Island Drill Instructor in the Marines. He never praised anything I did right, and never missed an opportunity to criticize me roundly for any miscue I made along the way. He was a poor communicator, and it was very difficult to follow his instruction, especially while trying to watch the myriad things one had to attend to while manuevering in traffic in Washington, DC, and Baltimore. He would doze while I drove, and I even went so far as to seek out a pothole every now and then, to give him a good jolt, and to get my licks in.
Listen, I know it must be tough to ride shotgun beside some newbie, having to sweat what lies around every bend in the road for fear that he/she will make some bonehead mistake that gets you killed, but it takes a special person to make a good trainer, and this guy clearly did not have what it takes. I know what I am talking about here, because I am a
Virginia Certified Driver Education Instructor, and I have always received praise and positive feedback from my high school students for how I taught them to drive. I know what works, and that positive reinforcement is better than negative, all the time.
| Gee,what happened over a few months time, to change this guy from "My trainer was a very special guy, who earned every cent of whatever he receives for training new drivers for the company.", "I can say that The trainer I shared a cab with for two weeks is truly a credit to the Comcar organization", to Attilla, the Hun? I also noticed the equipment went from "well maintained", to being the largest pieces of unsafe junk on the roads. Which is it? Just curious....
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