Company asked if I might be interested in training, anyone done it?

I could never do it . Just imagine how many disgusting slobs you would end up stuck with in your truck for weeks at a time

 

Im not so sure that it means they think you are doing it right. I think it means nobody else wants to do it. Think about the consequences and how sometimes money just aint worth it.
Take a look at some of the bottom dwellers that are now being put into seats. More than 3/4 of them reek of curry im sure

 

First, are you patient?
Second, do you like being around people at all?
Third are you able to teach new skills to people, meeting them where they are to bring them along?
Fourth do you have at least a FULL realistic experience of the various seasons in driving a semi?
Fifth, can you confidently accept where you may have blind spots? (Ie, humility)

If the answer to any of these is "no" then you should not train no matter the pay

 

Hay now curry is fine at least it tastes good and smells nice imo. Its the drivers who smell like rotting meat crossed with rancid diarrhea you need to watch out for.

That being said trust me when i say this is one fruit where the juice is NOT worth the squeeze in most cases. At least if you enjoy not hateing people, humans and all life in general.

 

I am also a very patient and realistic person . But once I realize someone is a selfish scumbag , all that friendliness goes out the window

 

The last bit is because teachers that lack humility about questions they dont know tend to be bad at their jobs with people that DO have some experience in that domain because they get defensive. Its not pointed at you at all, its a muscle that many dont excersise and then forget they have.

Case example, maybe a guy drove for 20 years, quit for 12 years and came back to it, he may only really need a refresher and has more actual driving experience than you, but the company will require you to "train" him for a week, how would you deal with that?

Also, age may and may not be a problem, if youre 27 and a fresh cdl grad is 57, we are trained to recognise age as authority, but thats a situation where the roles are flipped, will you be able to coach someone 30 years your senior in a way that helps them learn instead of making them mad that a young whippersnapper is teaching them? This is a soft people skill that really very few are aware of having or not. And that one is extra tricky because THEY might not even know theyre classifying you as "young kid"

The specific kind of person that may set you off is just what id call a growing edge, gotta meet people where they are, wont probably change their viewpoint on much outside of the narrow field of trucking expertise you bring to the table, its unlikely that youre going to be able to change their wardrobe choices in a few weeks. Gotta appreciate humanity's capacity for variance and roll with it or move on

 

How long you been driving?