IS THIS STUPID?

He agreed to run team.
He’s watching Hulu on his 10 hour break.
He doesn’t have to get up every 3 hours to insure that the truck is on time. Just once was necessary.
THE TRUCK WAS LATE. How do you justify that on a team truck?

No, I wouldn’t babysit another adult. First time I had to, I’d want him gone. If your end of the business is performance based, you win the big game and afterwards make changes to the team. Just because your team mate is a dud doesn’t mean that you don’t bring your A Game.

 

That's just half? Wheres the other half? I need the other half....

 

But six his dad has 25 years driving.

 

I don't know what this forum's fetish with personal responsibility is at times, but I was certainly thrown into the cab with some real losers when I was slip seat teaming.

It sounds like this genius company put a brand new rookie in a truck with a guy who has just some months of experience.

He had 10-plus hours, so there's no reason he couldn't watch some Hulu before he went to bed.

I mean seriously guys. Why do we feel the need to pin these poor new drivers to the wall whenever they come on here with complaints? This industry isn't exactly all flowers as long as you put in the effort. Sometimes it sucks in spite of your effort.

 

Almost half of the drivers at many companies have less than 180 days of experience in trucking. Officials at CR England and Werner have mentioned this is true for them. Many trainers are simply new drivers with a few months of not wrecking and wanting to get more pay.

 

New drivers see the interstate highway shoulder as pull thru parking that never fills up instead as a possible scene of a deadly crash. New drivers think "staying in your own lane" as a good idea and maybe they'll do that one day plus 4-wheelers veering across lanes using phones. It is a miracle there arent hundreds of crashes daily when a 4-wheeler hits a parked truck on the shoulder.

Parking on the shoulder is for emergencies, not fixing you playlist, adjusting your sox, finding a snack, etc. New drivers, smh.

 

I think it is more interesting the OP snoozed for 10 hours, then snoozed more on the first leg of the trainees time.

 

Am I looking at this wrong?

Decades ago, I ran team in a food service truck. My team mate got into the habit of staying out all night during our layover at a hotel. We went to offload the final stop and he passed out in front of a customer. What was I supposed to do?

“Well, screw it! He’s supposed to help me unload this truck. I will wait here until Dufus wakes up because they are not paying me enough money to unload this truck by myself!”

What about my customer, the kitchen manager that’s standing there counting the product as I roll it in? Where does the customer fit in all of this?

 

You get the job done professionally and then ream the lazy prick out for being on his Z-game all the time.

 

There are many. Just search his name, and you shall find. He trained for Western.

Threads like this make my head hurt, tbh. I barely trained my wife when we pulled asphalt; that was enough training for me. We had a good 5 year run, and done. Thank gawsh, tbh! ON to local/greener pastures here, myself!

Best of luck to ya, O/P.

Great replies as always, @TripleSix ~!