Random thought: Why do Megas hire 100 people a week….

I think being a trainer and having a different dude in your truck every week or for as long as 6 weeks would be miserable. No money is worth that.

 

I for one, would like to hear your experience. Would you mind sharing?

 

Good post. This holds true for owner operators as well in most cases... YET, look how many guys come on here and feel they need to run 4k miles a week as owner op...

It's truly sheep not business owner mentality.

Been like that for years and years.

 

Drivers quit for every little thing. The demand of the job is 24/7. You can’t drink alcohol basically. When I was training and one driver did not like driving over bridges. It’s probably a lot more work than people realize. You have a schedule you have to keep. So can’t really call in sick or anything

Plus the training is not very good. They basically throw you in truck and say go learn. When I was learning the school said the trainer will show you that. When I get on trainer truck they don’t really show you anything. When I was a trainer I tried to show drivers all the little things you need to know. Most trainers don’t even know the correct stuff. There is no standard or they don’t check to see if someone can train.

I had a guy refuse to drive the truck when it was his time. I even asked why or he needed some help or any questions. He just said he was not driving. We had team load and truck had to move.

 

Almost EVERYONE going into trucking have only had jobs where a manager or supervisor is within arms reach every moment at work. So anytime they don't know what to do a supervisor or maybe another employee is right there to tell the newbie what to do. Trucking has none of that, plus it requires more work hours per week than almost any other job. It also requires the driver to make MANY decisions per day for which no advance notice can be given. EVERYBODY wants good income, and everyone assumes they can do the work, but many people just are not willing to do more than a minimal amount of work.

 

Truer words....were never spoken....

-- L

 

Maybe guys just don’t have you know what’s to do the job today. Ha ha I think the trucking companies over promise.

People see the nice trucks rolling down the road and it looks fun. They don’t know about not getting home for weeks and missing birthdays and holidays and basically living out of truck stops. You’re working 70 hours a week and driving in the snow storms.

I see more people saying if your not at home then your working. So they claim your working 168 hours a week and should get paid to sleep since your not home.

 

In 2008 I went to CFI in Joplin. There were slot of newbies walking around complaining about waiting to get assigned a trainer. Also, they cut people during the 1 week orientation that made no major mistakes. So I guess the had to let go some. Good training there. They had the polished concrete skid pad, wetted down. You'd get into a jack knife on purpose and steer it through cones. That gave alot of confidence for bad situations .
I got a good veteran trainer pretty quick. In spite of all that, I lasted 4 months. Scratched another truck backing at a truck stop. And a fork lift broke through the floor boards. That was blamed on me.