Prime Trainer can't train...

The thread must go on!

A good trainer has a cool demeanor and is well experienced with at least 5 years of OTR behind him/her. A good trainer will sleep very little the first 3 weeks. A good trainer will demonstate what he is teaching and not expect you to know it. A good trainer will have a set training plan like letting you drive only in remote area's at first and eventially graduating to the heavier traffic of a city. A good trainer will cover the silent tricks and in's and out's of the trade. A good trainer will be compationate enough and take pride in the final product. The student is the product.

Last, the trainer should be nice enough to know you are financially strapped and buy you a meal every now and then.

If you have a butt of a trainer, I wouldn't hesitate to explain the bad situation to the operations supervisor and ask for a new one. It's your career and you need someone to send you down the right path.

Unfortunately, they are spitting out trainers like drivers. Some of these trainers need training themselves.

 

Td...thanks for the heads up, I'm 97% positive I'm going with prime. I don't forsee havin the same issues others have had. I won't walk in w/ attitude, and I actually try to get along with people.....even th nurses.

 

"If you don't like it there are 80 others waiting in Springfield wanting a chance to be put mute and learn the hard way how to operate like they want you to, If that doesn't work they will just boot you off the truck." Trey, This is your quote. My advice to you and other trainee's is to memorize it. A trainee is an "unknown" your putting your CDL job in the hands of somebody who wants to make money from your labor while teaching you. He/She is not there to babysit you. To sum it up: Keep your mouth shut, do what your told, get the training ( their way not yours) then move on.

 

And he wonders why I feel negatively toward his attitude. You can't tell somebody who already knows it all because he went to a community college anything. You are absolutely correct. You are neither wanted nor needed at Prime.

Please don't come over to Swift. First, you would hate the training situation here, too. Because you are thrown into a truck with a complete stranger who does not want his equipment damaged and does not want any service failures. Second, you wouldn't learn anything you don't already know. Because you refuse to listen. Third, your posts here tell me I don't want you on my team. Because that's what a company is: a large team of people all with the same goal. Or at least that's what it's supposed to be.

 

I keep coming back and reading the posts just to see if you have contradicted yourself anymore TD. You do realize your complaints would have more validity if you hadn't contradicted so much of your original post.

 

Precisely why I don't train. That and disposing of the bodies... would that be line 1 or line 4?

 

Time to chime in after reading this entire thread. TD, here's my advice to you. Forget about driving, you've abviously got that mastered and down pat after this past month behind the wheel. Get a small business loan and buy a truck or 2. Hire a driver.(you can train him yourself with that months experience you now have) And what with your superior overall knowledge of the real world and all things large and small, you'll freaking own Prime by next year at this time.Then you can fire those two guys who didn't live up to your stringent training standards! :smt006

 

TreyDavid, If i was still with a training Company like i was with Central Id be happy to Train you. JJ.