Oh the "work at all cost" trainers. You'll be through it soon a few more weeks maybe 4 . Then you can become a trainer like your trainer and the circle continues .
Welcome to the lovely world of trucking in the 6x4x2 what could be better (no showering allowed). Grind Grind we have to keep America moving 8 days a week. . Keep up the good work flatbedder the daisies are waiting . Rest easy work less
New Driver, Getting Exhausted With Trainer
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by jmarc77, Jun 21, 2022.
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It sounds like your trainer is running you as a team and not as a trainer situation. Also you don't indicate how often you guys stop for breaks.
If your trainer is doing it right. He should be helping you build up to an eleven hour drive day. Not just having you do it from day one. You also need to communicate with him about how it's impacting you. Are you not moving down to the bottom bunk to sleep. When he starts driving. Assuming he drives first.
A good company will limit and ramp up the number of combined hours you guys can be on duty. It insures the trainer is training you and not just doing it for a free team driver.Another Canadian driver Thanks this. -
I'm ready to call training and tell them this isn't safe.Vic Firth, austinmike, Another Canadian driver and 4 others Thank this. -
Yes, sadly....if you are being worked that hard ....then it is indeed time to say something about it to a decision maker back at the mother ship....
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However training is almost over. This company has a short training period anyways and I caught on pretty quickly so I have to weigh if it would be a better option to just tough through it knowing it will be over once I get my own truck.austinmike, Another Canadian driver and nredfor88 Thank this. -
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Post-training suggestion: if this is typical of this trainer, you will do successive students an incredible injustice if you let this practice slide completely. So--if you get a chance later to "rate/review your trainer"....then, by all means, feed him to the shredder.
It's a "reap what you sow" world that we live in--and your trainer obviously needs to learn that.
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Your time with a trainer is only temporary. I know alot of it sucks. But, hang in there. Once you are solo, you'll be able to adjust how you run to suit you. When you're with a trainer, you just have to do your best to adapt to his scheduling.
All that said, if you are too tired to drive and getting sleepy, don't tolerate a trainer who pushes you that far. If you're trainer is too bent on running loads hard without paying attention to how exhausting it is on his trainee and providing you adequate rest, he's not a good trainer, regardless of everything else he may or may not be doing.
If you are too tired to safely drive, I implore you to refuse to drive. You have that authority and responsibility. If he pushes back, I suggest you get your company's safety folks involved. What we do as commercial drivers is dangerous, but manageable. An essential part of managing it all is ensuring you are not driving while too tired, fatigued and sleepy to be unsafe for yourself and the others on the road.
Best of luck!Another Canadian driver, merv85 and jmarc77 Thank this.
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