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This is why Trainees should be supervised, not run as a team!

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by D_Jeffers, Mar 30, 2011.

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  1. Mar 30, 2011 #1
    D_Jeffers

    D_Jeffers Light Load Member

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    Here is the result from a company which runs team miles with new trainees. One trucker is dead and the new trainee's trucking career is probably over before it started. This is what happens when trucking companies short change the proper training of new drivers by running them as team drivers instead of properly training them with constant supervision with their trainer.
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    Investigators are still trying to piece together what led to the death of a truck driver in a fiery crash involving two tractor-trailers on Interstate 80 between Laramie and Cheyenne on March 25.
     
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  3. Mar 30, 2011 #2
    BNR32

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    5mph huh?? i think anyone who could do something that stupid would be hopeless even if they were trained by nasa.
     
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  4. Mar 30, 2011 #3
    longbedGTs

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    Wonder if there might have been a mechanical problem and the trainee was too dumb to pull it off the road.
    Regardless, a man is dead due to the idiocy of two people. What a shame.
    Id be glad to hear of CRST being put under the scope. Maybe it would get some changes made in how carriers treat new hires.
     
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  5. Mar 30, 2011 #4
    johnday

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    Wonder if he was falling asleep? The article stated he was disoriented, and thought he was going up a grade. But geez, what a totally avoidable accident, and I mean zero disrespect to the dead guy, but how did he miss seeing the CRST? A lot has been left out of the article.
     
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  7. Mar 30, 2011 #5
    delta5

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    How about failure to maintain assured clear distance ahead for the driver that ran into the back of the CRST truck? Thats what Ohio would charge...
     
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  8. Mar 30, 2011 #6
    Scarecrow03

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  9. Mar 30, 2011 #7
    D_Jeffers

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    OK, so be it. That is in a totally different topic area. Hopefully the new trainees currently in school may read this and think carefully about what company they want to train under. There are far too many companies that use trainees as team drivers instead of properly training them. The schools certainly don't. As a trainer myself, I would not work for a company that has this total disregard for the proper training of a new driver. As trainers we can only do so much in the short time that we have with our trainees, the rest is learned from experience, hopefully if we did our jobs right, those experiences are not bad ones and our trainees have the proper tools to survive and prosper on the road. How can a trainer teach if he is in the sleeper?
     
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  10. Mar 30, 2011 #8
    Scarecrow03

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    After two weeks, how much is left to train on driving down the interstate?

    If ya can't drive down a rural stretch of interstate on clear, dry roads unsupervised by your 3rd week of training, how are you going to do it after your 4th week when you're on your own???

    It's really not rocket science.
     
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  11. Mar 30, 2011 #9
    leannamarie

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    Probably not. The dead/injured are "only" truck drivers. The public doesn't care about them. If the accident involved a van full of kids, maybe we would hear more about it but as it stands it only involves truck drivers so it will be quickly forgotten.
     
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  12. Mar 30, 2011 #10
    popmartian

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    On the Hwy going 5 mph is a student driver and an experienced driver rear-ends him and dies on a fiery crash. Talk about bad judgement. Both are at fault.

    One (1) the student was well below the posted speed. (Flashers are required below 45) it was not stated wether the trainee had engaged the 4 ways.

    Two(2) the expereinced driver failed to slow down and go around the slow moving vehicle. We must use common sense keep our eyes focused and scanning the front at 15 sec of travel ahead, and look at the rear view mirrors left to right every 5 -10 seconds.

    At 5:40 am near Cheyene Wy it was pretty dark that morning which could effect judging distances and speed. It is a dangerous life to live and work out of a truck.

     
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