how many hours a day does a trainer supervise a student

You need to hurry up and come home. Word on the street is there is a LEO looking for you....

 

She sounds like a b@#@buster to me. Glad I ain't married to her.

 

Well, to answer the question. We are required to log 15 hours of observation in the first 3 days. thats 5 hours a day on average. Also we are required to log another 15 hours in the next 11 days after that for a total of 30 logged hours in the first 2 weeks. Now most trainers spend time observing the trainee off the loggs as well because, well, we prefer to live through the experiance. After the first 2 weeks you generally have a feel for wether the student can handle the job or not. after the 2 week breaking in period the student comes off his curfew and can run all night (cerfew is midnight local time). Now that is the requirement, but trainers are free to log more hours of observation as they see fit and there are a lot of students out there that need it.

 

The trainers are to log line 4 for 15 hours the first 3 days, then log line 4 for another 15 hour over the next 11 days. After the observation hours are done over the first 14 days, the student then has his curfew (from midnight to 0600) lifted. Myself, i drive the first day to give the student a idea how truck works in the real world, truck schools only teach you how to get a C.D.L. not how to be a Truckdriver. After the first day i let them drive around 4-8 hours, depends on how the student is doing, also like Notarps said, i always do the first couple of mountains. This shows them how to get down a long steep grade without smokein the brakes. Most students think going down mountains is easy, just like the C.D.L. handbook says. The thing most people don't think about when training someone is, most of these guys have never been away from home or lived on the road.

This is the hardest thing for them to adjust to. If the student is haveing problems at home, he will not have his head in the right place and be a danger to everyone. This is when i have them pull over and let them know there done for the day. Next day after a break, you have to let them know, this is a lifestyle, not just a job. When your wife is "beating" you on the phone daily, they need to re-think this lifestyle. I could go on but most guys that have been doing this awhile know what iam getting at. Training is tough job, but it makes it harder is the guy your trainings wife is killing him on the phone everyday. It takes a good woman to be a truckers wife. My Mom did it for 40 years. myself, girlfriends change like the wind, they just don't make good woman like the old days, all the ones now just want your check and time to find a new man with more money.

 

^^^ Well said Stump. As a hopeful soon-to-be newbie driver I hope that the knowledge I've learned on this forum along with my hard work ethic will help me succeed in this industry and see me through tough times. I also pray I get a good trainer that cares enough to actually teach me the things I didn't learn in school. God bless all you guys out there.

 

Guess she didn't like the answers this time either since she has made no replies.
What a Witch.

 

Holy Hell, what freakin crabtree!!

 

Unforunitly sorry for the spelling training for alot of big carriers is team orinented truck always moving $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ it should be trainee runs out of ours so does trainer; trainee drives while trainer sleeps in berth unless you need help. This is the quickest path to solo driver for those wiht no experience; anywhere from 6- 12weeks

 

The trainer has to do macro 8, logs line 4, mark "trainer observation" box. Has to log 30 hours total of this. The EOBR/log records this as part of the trainer's logbook.
Werner prefers trainers do this in the first 14 days the student is on truck.

Hope this helps.

 

That is a quick way to get a new guy in trouble... how can a trainer train if he is snoozing???