Fears of a getting a bad trainer

Hey all! I've been watching a ton of YouTube videos(easily 30+ as of the time I'm writing this) of people recollecting about the horrors they faced when getting their intro company driver training.

With that said, is there a resource available to check on a potential trainer? When I was in college I used ratemyprofessor.com. I used that website to review every professor before selecting their class. It made my college experience a whole lot better.

If something like that doesn't exist, how much power does a student have when they get assigned to a trainer and that trainer is not good for XXX reason?

Like for instance, if the trainer has very poor personal hygiene. Or something like smoking. I'm a smoker but I know I would only every smoke if the truck is moving, never in the sleeper. Or if the trainer just isn't a trainer and isn't doing any sort of actual training(treating training as team driving).

There are a lot more possible scenarios, but you get the point I'm trying to make with this thread.

Thank you in advance for the wisdom of experience here!

 

The majority of videos I've seen were about trainers kicking students off their truck. Only 3 or 4 of them have been a student wanting off the trainers truck.

I just want to make sure it's not frowned upon for requesting a different trainer. Weather I should just suck it up and power through or not.

 

Yeah I'm not worried about TDI. I know a couple people that have gone to the one I'm going to in Sanford and all of them said I'll be perfectly fine there.

I will deff remember to request a military vet as that would almost certainly align with me!

 

I was going to go to swift as they have the Walmart dedicated contract with the DC I work weekends at. But if Schneider if also hiring then I will reach out to them right before I start school. If I can go otr right away then I wouldn't mind driving the 1.5 hours to Orlando which is where they are at. Not a bad drive if I'm only doing it from my home reset times.

Thank you for the recommendation ma'am!

 

I'm not worried about petty things. I can roll with things like music differentiations. It's mainly hygiene and being a trainer and not treating it like team driving. Any DOT violations is a definite no go and I'll exit the truck immediately. I will have 5-7k in my bank account just in case something stupid like that happens and I need to get somewhere if something serious were to happen.