Trainer sleeping in cab

They are only strangers first couple days. After that you know each other secrets. Lots of companies run their trainer trucks as teams. So when one person goes to bed the other is driving. You close the curtains. So it's kinda like having your own little room. Some people sleep in less clothes and some more. You basically don't care or worry about that after a while. Sleeping in a different place seems weird at first if you're use to sleeping in your own room alone.

 

That's not training. That's teaming. Training requires a trainer NOT sleeping and available for instruction.

 

I believe Magnums training is 30 days and they don't run you as a team is what I'm being told. I'm thinking about trying to jump on board with them myself.

 

Yup, it was rare that both the trainer and I were sleeping at the same time. You will be so sleep deprived and exhausted during training you will most likely pass out rather than think about anyone else sleeping a few feet away.

 

I was a trainer for little while and they ran us as teams. So when sleeping you basically had your own little privet room. The training was not the best because the trainer was sleeping most of the time, or the new driver was sleeping. The other times you basically just don't make everything so personal, like we are told. I can look back even when I had a trainer the stuff I thought was personal like sleeping because your basically not safe or what do you sleep in. We end up seeing everyone is the same and it not a big deal.

 

Doghouse was my bed as a kid. When I worked for McClane there were a couple of times my partner and I got stuck where we couldn't get a hotel and we couldn't finish deliveries, we would grab an empty tote out of the trailer and put it between the seats.

 

It's unlikely you will find a company like that, but hopefully someone knows of such a company.

The reasons are practical, if the company would need to pay you for the motel (it's unlikely they would send the trainer to the motel and let you to sleep in the truck assigned to the trainer), it's an additional expense for them to pay for 4 weeks of motel rooms.

It would also create a bit of a logistic problem, they would need to get the truck to different motels night after night which slows the movement of freight down, it's easier sleeping in trucks in the truck stops, shipper/consignee yards and other places with designated parking area for trucks, not all motels have truck parking.

If the luck serves you well, you could end up with another student driver in the training, since there are 3 people (2 students, 1 trainer) and 2 beds in the truck, students get motel rooms, it happened to me with Schneider but the OTR training lasted 1 week.
Half of the nights, the Travel Dept got us motels where even the trainer had difficulties to park the truck in like a tiny parking behind some motel in New Orleans which was full by the time we got there at night.

 

You get tired enough you’ll sleep. I was also in the Navy. Try doing the number two in open toilet head in boot camp with 70+ strangers milling around. When you have to shat bad enough you’ll do whatever it takes. Your not really 1 foot away... your a couple... feet away... lolol

 

This is exactly right.