KLLM horrible experience

There are other companies that dont do team training and will stop someone from being a trainer if that is found out. All companies are not the same.

 

Maybe the larger companies should hire full-time, professional trainers instead of yokels just using trainees as "meat in the seat." Have a few professional trainers whose full time job is to train trainees the proper way.

Most companies will let you train if you have 6-12 months of experience, no tickets and attend a 4 hour class. Those are hardly difficult standards to meet. So most (not all, but most) guys sign up to train merely to cash in on trainee miles and don't really care if the trainee succeeds or not. Basically, they want help making their lease payment. Hiring professional trainers who are paid a good salary and not by the mile would pretty much eliminate that problem. (Maybe guys who are retired or semi-retired would be good candidates.)

Yes, it would cost the companies money to do this. But that cost would be more than offset by the money the companies would save from retaining more and higher qualityvtrainees, instead of hiring and paying 20 trainees to get 1 or 2 who will stick with the company instead of quitting 6 weeks later.

 

Don't let one bad experience sour you on a driving career. Were other trainers made available to you?

 

Did you even ask for another trainer ? If not that's your bad. But it sounds like you didn't do enough homework finding out about them before you went with them. Good Luck try another company.

 

I agree with Lonesome. Don't let one bad experience ruin you on trucking. There's a lot of bad people in this business but there's a lot of good people also. Maybe give it another try with a different company.

 

Mattock, you are pretty much in a predicament here. You have time and $$$$ invested in this career choice. If you give up now, you will be further in the hole than when you started. Can you afford to quit now?

What is the easiest way out for you?

I say call or go talk to the lady in Lancaster, and tell her you still want to drive, but you need another trainer. Tell her there was a big misunderstanding and and personality conflict between you and the first trainer. She probably knows who her good trainers and bad trainers are. The guy you had was probably not one of the good ones.

If it makes you feel better, I did the same thing as you did in 1989. My first trainer was an Ahole and a jerk from day one. After about two weeks of his BS, we landed in Tulsa and checked in the motel for the night. I called the Main Terminal and told them I was getting off the truck. Called a cab and went to the airport.

After about two weeks of waiting at home, the Company set me up with Trainer#2. He was a great guy and I enjoyed running with him. I finished out with trainer#2 and soon went solo.

You are not the first person to jump off a trainer truck, and won't be the last.

 

Trial by fire . He admitted he wasn't cut out for it . Really . A few months out of training are you going to service fail a load because it's snowing or you can't drive at night ? The best pay is time sensitive , and if he is an owner operator what's his incentive to train you other than money ? Sounds like he was giving you good OJT

 

Hey, JMichael. Anyone ever tell you your avatar looks a lot like Mitt?

 

Romney? Lol.