Mentoring

I like your ambition to teach, but you only have 3 years driving. How are you going to do that? Your still in learning mode. I would put you in a spotters job for 2 years, then you can try and help. I don’t know??? It takes lots of on the job experience, many years, too get good at trucking, maybe the new trucking technology makes you better. I don’t know, good luck young lady.

 

3 years is plenty to teach. There are things you will never have enough time to teach or remember every situation to teach for. However giving them a good base to build off of is where it is important. The longer in the industry I would say will actually become a handicap to teaching as you forget a lot of important things that a new driver would need to know due to it becoming an everyday thing you and no longer important.

Take my previous career as a mechanic. I taught many a tech in my 20+ years. There are a lot of times some of them would come to me later and ask why I didn't show them something. Simple answers is it either didn't come up in conversation or in situation to jog the memory that they may not know it. There is a lot to the saying "That person has forgotten more about (x) then they can teach you"

Also comes the separation of experience of a veteran in remembering the beginning years to the current years. You see it here on this forum all the time. The grouchy, the elitist, the ones who have become so jaded that anything trucking they despise yet can't bring themselves to walk away. Most if not all forget what new drivers go through- what they went through when they got started. It's hard for some of the veterans to give good advice instead of lazy critique because they have forgotten. Look even at Truck stops, YouTube, or a listen on the CB.

New drivers need those that can remember and empathize, the more experienced the driver the harder it is for them to have that empathy due to their own collective experience of bad choices and bad companies. It turns into - "Well I had to go through this so you must also to pay your dues."

 

My how times have changed!
My “mentor” back in 1976 taught me how to dodge scales, where the speed traps were, the best restaurants/diners, how to deal with brokers and lumpers to my advantage, how to run a log book to make money, how to keep a belligerent reefer running for another 1000 mile, etc.

 

Thanks for stepping up mustang190. I start to get the bad feeling about the one guy talking about older drivers , how are forgetful Ha ha ha

 

LoL though I understand the point your making. Typing like king brandon talks isn't helping your case
Don't confuse "old" with veteran driver. Many 40+ year old drivers out there been doing it longer than some 60+ year old drivers.

 

I’m approaching 70, September I’ll have 48 years driving, 1 million miles award driving in Chicago, that took 30 years, then another 1 million miles award took 17 years. Do you really want to discuss this anymore. I’m trying to be nice about this. I think it’s best you walk away.

 

3 years experience, and wants to teach people how to drive a truck. I’m not buying this.

 

You're being crotchety. I was finding humor in it and being nice and jovial. I respect your million miles but seeing your meds are apparently running low. Thats where that respect stops. Enjoy your misery.