Impatient Trainers & Complaining students

Like Mr. Miyagi said in "Karate Kid": "There are no bad student, only bad teacher.."

A "Train the Trainer" program would be beneficial; if only to test competency and technique in delivering instruction and to cull those sociopaths and control freaks who see $$$ signs instead of student success....

As for trainees, a lot of problems would be solved in the entry-level phase of this industry if you could screen out those candidates who are "not receptive to being instructed" such as with railroad engineers. But since truck drivers make nowhere near the wage of a railroad engineer, nor are they subject to the same intellectual and academic requirements as said engineers, the point is moot...

 

i'm currently in the midst of training with a guy who has 30+ years behind the wheel. He's a decent enough guy and all but I think he forgets that I'm training and we just run as we would if we were both experienced. When I do try and ask questions or slowing down so that I can comprehend what I'm being presented he gets very impatient. Which I don't really mind I'm not complaining or anything as long as I'm learning. But I'm not anymore.. If the goal of this company is to produce high-quality long-term company drivers I would suspect it would behoove them to train such people a little better. But we all know that's not the case ha ha.
My trainers in the casino right now and I suspect he'll be there for another hour when he gets back in the truck he will yell at me "lets go lets go we have a deadline to meet"

 

Had a trainee take it outta gear goin down a mountain one time. "To improve MPG and get the fuel bonus." Seriously. I admit I was more than a little impatient when we got to the bottom with brakes on fire. God only knows what the guts of the tranny looked like. I about broke the stick getting it into high gear. I'm grabbing the stick and hollering NAIL IT. LET OFF. NO NAIL IT. At that point any gear was a good gear. 10 was best I could get for the speed and lucky to get that.

I was very unprofessional when I stopped puking and we got the brake fires out. We bout got into a fist fight and parted ways in Fontana. I guess that's one for both. Student and trainer.

 

why was it that the trainee did not know not to do that?

 

The guy i trained with years ago was an iron azzzz

Out of nine students at the time i was one of only two that made it.

He either booted them after a week or two...or they simply got tired of his mental abuse and brutality and they walked away from the truck at the truck stop.

I almost didnt make it..i was about to snap...but I knew i needed a job and just took his S***.

I held onto the belief that once he was gone things would return to normal

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As a trainer i had only one student....

It was scary...he didn't understand English...could not read English...etc..communication was nearly non existant

He made it through training..took 2 times to pass the test...

He decided to walk away from trucking once he passed his CDL test....he went back to his old job...I went back to just doing my own thing and got clear of being a trainer.

....Never again

 

I quit training after a week with my trainer with one of the mega carriers. His personality was okay but he cared more about getting miles and making money off of me than allowing me to learn at my own pace. The whole experience left me flustered and his lack of patience and wanting to get things ASAP annoyed me. I actually miss driving those long distances seeing the country, but I'm debating whether class A truck driving is really for me. I realized I can always take an extended road trip in a rental car driving around the country if I still want to see it.

 

Story with the trainee letting it ride down the hill out of gear is insane.
No fuel bonus if ya crash the truck, eh?

Never had a trainer and will never be a trainer. Not worth the hassle, at all.

 

When you get out on your own you can run a bit easier if you wish to, but while on the trainers truck it is all business.
Your job at that point is to learn the job as quickly as possible.

You don't do things at your own pace in boot camp, either.
But I guess trucking is easier to quit if you don't like it.

It's not an extended vacation to see the sights, you know.
It sounds more like you really didn't want to be a trucker as much as you wanted to truck around the country.

 

What kind of mental abuse and brutality did he dish out?