Starting with Roehl in February

"To get your CLP as a part of Roehl’s Get Your CDL Program, please study sections:

• 1-1 Introduction
• 2-1 Driving Safely
• 3-1 Transporting Cargo Safely
• 5-1 Air Brakes
• 6-1 Combination Vehicles"

 

If they left like that, then the big question isn't how happy or unhappy I am about it, but rather why they didn't want to stay.

I wasn't thrilled to have spent thousands of dollars and years of my life in college, to obtain training for the benefit of future employers who turned out not to want to employ me long enough to pay off the student loans, either - but my training costs are hardly their responsibility. An unfortunate reality of the world is that we make investments, anticipating returns that may not happen. No one owes anyone else some kind of loyalty for that investment, and if someone is working for you out of a sense of obligation, rather than because they find doing so, rewarding, then they are going to resent you for the obligation, before long. Do you want people driving for you that don't want to be there? Because that, or broken contracts, are the only possible outcomes of requiring people to sign on for some minimum term...

And I find it interesting that these contracts only obligate the employee to stay. They never obligate the employer to continue to pay them at any minimum level... Slavery was supposedly abolished... well, at least it's not based on skin color, any more... ?

Incentivize - don't obligate. Respect - don't demand. The difference between these approaches to handling employees can be illustrated as the difference between obedience and cooperation. I'm a lot better employee if you inspire my cooperation, than if you demand my obedience.

 

84%. Great for a first pass without studying. I failed miserably without studying so I know where to spend extra effort.

 

Please try not to drive in your sleep. One of my recurring nightmares involves waking up thinking that I fell asleep while driving...

 

I haven't touched a clutch since school. Hope I never go back, either. I love the automatics. Especially in big city east coast traffic jams!

 

Progressing. My telephone interview with Roehl is Monday. They want me to train for flatbeds. I guess that has its own set of "complications"