Just curious about the difference?

You sound like a person that trainers would love to hate.So you think 4 to 6 weeks is too long with a trainer huh?Ok fine then go with a company that only has a week or two of training.

 

If I was to train someone like Mr.attitude I would probably leave him stranded at a truckstop.

 

The industry needs better trainers. I trained for several years, turned out real good results! Was rated their best.Have been away from that company 2 years, and still get calls from past trainees. You could train a year , and still come across something new once out on your own. No matter how long the training is , you one day will wish it had covered "this".

 

FYI, Schneider is only 5-6 days with a stranger.

But while it is good training, the only time I see it as training is when both the student and trainer are in the front of the truck. Student driving and trainer training. The rest of that bull #### about "training" when you're running as a team is just that. Bull ####. It's called a really cheap way for a company to have a team truck on the road. They make a whole ### pile of money off of all this "training". And sure, it's sorta nice to have your trainer there with you in some situations, but I found it much more effective to learn things without a crutch. Or having to learn how to team when that's something I'd never do if I didn't have to.

 

Stop the hate please. This person don't need or seek advise. He's the best truck driver ever, or as you might call it; a "super driver".

Good luck on your journey and stay humble, grasshopper !

 

You guys these days are lucky. Back when I first started driving, you had to attend truck driving school for 2 years before they would even consider giving you a job in OTR Trucking and with most of the majors, you had to be 25 years old. Thats why most guys learned to drive with local companies until they had enough experience to get an OTR job and was old enough to get an OTR job.

 

Your cer

I'm here man, everything is gonna be ok. Load is gonna get there, everyone's going to get paid.

 

I think you need to beg pattyj for forgiveness, and the beg her to train you.

I was trainer. I dealt with some of the weirdest, creepiest "trainees" I've ever met in my entire life. I also rode with some of the truly weirdest, creepiest mother ####ers you could ever imagine as a trainee.
Welcome to trucking.
You need a minimum of 3 to 4 weeks, and that's if your a natural driver.

Can you run hard right now? No ( You have no idea what that even means )
Can you get parked safely at the end of your shift? No
Can you trip plan? No
Can you do all the communications and paperwork? No

Can you go over the continental divide in a snowstorm on a two lane highway in Montana? If you can do that safely, be on time, I'll get you your own truck. Cool?



Why don't you just turn the wipers on?
Cause that's ice.

You just better get pattyj some serious gift cards from the J.

 

Trainer sleeping and the trainee driving.....
I personally had to deal with that exact scenario when I worked for Swift. The particular "trainer" I had didn't actually train me for ####. He was doing it for the extra money, plain and simple, and he had that truck running like a team operation. The very first day I was on the truck, my trainer picked me up at the Wal-Mart in Belen, NM (close to my house) around 18:00. He drove for another couple hours until we got to Deming, NM on our way to Tucson. He hopped out of the drivers seat and told me "I'm almost out of hours, your turn to drive." and got in the sleeper and closed the curtain. I ended up driving the next 3 hours until we got to Tucson and had no idea what to do when we got to the Coke distributor since that was literally my first day / night and he was crashed out in the sleeper.

About a week later, with maybe 1500 miles under my belt, we were on I-70 headed from Kansas City to Ontario, CA and we stopped at the Swift terminal in Denver to fuel. This was in early December, about 01:00, and he tells me it's my turn to drive. I didn't know it at the time, but the Eisenhower Tunnel on the west side of Denver was coming up and I-70 on both sides of the tunnel was icy and snow packed. So here I am, brand new driver, never had a rig on anything worse than wet pavement, taking a 76k rig and running it down a 6% grade on I-70 on the west side of the tunnel, on ice, by myself because the ####ing trainer was asleep in the #### bunk! I requested a new trainer later that day when we stopped in St. George, UT but was told they didn't have any available and I would have to wait until another one became available. I only ended up staying on with Swift for another couple weeks after that anyway.