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Old 09.07.2008
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No one had mentioned how to recognize the trainer from Hell Generally, he believe's he's the top authority on trucking, and every book that had ever been published needed his approval. You'll notice there are not too many books in the market on trucking, except the ones that only prepare you for the CDL written test. This is a clue that there are not too many positive things veteran drivers can say about OTR trucking. The trainer from Hell will use drill-sergeant like training. He'll use fear and intimidation to pass his knowledge on to you. The problem with this approach, you're so freaked out of all his verbal abuse, you can't concentrate on the job. Instead, you're only concerned with not saying or doing anything to provoke his tirades, and you begin to question the wisdom of getting your CDL license to begin with.

The trainer from Hell gets away with abusing all his trainees because the newbies believe they're powerless to do anything about it. One way to get your trainer to change his attitude, is to carry a digital voice recorder. When he starts off on his tirades, reach into your pocket and turn on your recorder without his knowledge, and document all his verbal abuse. When you get back to the terminal, have the terminal manager listen to what this guy is saying, and in most cases, the terminal manager will either remove him from his status as a trainer, or will council & reprimand the trainer for violating company policy on not harassing and/or intimidating a trainee. Under federal Labor Laws, OSHA, and DOT laws, verbal abuse of trainees is illegal, and exposes the trucking company to safety liabilities. A newbie driver can't do his/her job safely if the trainer is creating a hostile environment with his non-stop tirades.
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Just to respond when and IF a trainee was given to me I WAS THEIR LAST CHANCE PERIOD. I was given the authority by the Personal Director Saftey Manger and Operations Manager to make that call to put a trainee off the truck. Here were some of the trainee I ended up with try having one that thought he could run over cars HE DID NOT EVEN MAKE IT OUT OF THE YARD. Another would run 500 miles and stop whereever he was and claim he was done for the day regardless of how many miles we had left to run in that trip. BTW when I got them they had been in the training program for 2 months already. Try having one that even after working with him on backing up he did all of it that was the only thing he was with me for was he could not back he could drive down the road just could not back one up he crunched the hood in our yard of a brand new truck. I hated when I had to flunk one however I had to do what waqs best for the saftey of the motoring public and the company and also the drivers these people would have been teamed with.
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LOL... I was out almost 60 days with a slob who refused to stop to shower, to eat... and from day ONE had me running team while he slept. Never taught me a damn thing. I just drove and learned on my own. He would go ballistic when I stopped for showers (3 times a week) and to eat. He got so pissed he made me do all the night driving, and would run us 5 hours on and 5 hours off. I had to pull over due to fatigue and having maybe just 3 or 4 hours sleep so often. The guy was a nut case and about 400 lbs of fat stinking slob. At least he didn't smoke. I got what you don't ever want.
One company I've looked at wants you to drive with a trainer for 4 mos. This seems to be nothing more than "indentured servitude" back again. Team diving cloaked as a training program.
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