Greedy trainer

My dad always buys the paper atlas and his will easily outlast my laminated one. I don't know how he takes care of it so well. He still has one in the house from '00. I'm rough on stuff though.

 

i can see it now........

"you try and figure out what the red knob does and ill try and figure out what the yellow knob does"

 

Old guys somehow manage to take care of things. Like every once in a while you hear of some old geezer who has a plain old 6 cylinder Chevy pickup truck with a million miles on it and no rust or scratches and it doesn't burn oil. I don't get it.

I forgot how many car engines I blew up when I was a teenager.

 

That's pretty #### funny.

I did a solid year before even considering it. My Driver Manager actually recommended for it. I'm about to quit training though. The aggravation isn't worth the extra miles. It feels more like babysitting than training at this juncture.

 

I'm not sure how I'd be at training. I know I'd at least TRY to teach them right, but it depends on the student. I don't know, ... some of these guys like that gravdigr guy on here seems to be the perfect student but if I had some smart-mouth punk who thinks we're only out here to #### lot lizards or something I'd probably eventually lose my temper and have to bounce his head off the dash a couple times.

 

gravdigr is the man

the thing with him is before he started driving a semi he was already operating other equipment........i realize its not the same but it gave him a head start

he probably did better in his class then the laid off office worker who has never had a job outside of an office

 

When I went to CDL school back in ought-four, there was this one guy who was like a total mama's boy DORK. He was like 40 yrs old, probably a virgin. He didn't want to drive a truck, he was actually employed as a computer programming geek somewhere but he only went to the driving school because his brothers were always harassing him for being a pansy. Every day he was always nervous, and while the other guys were talking about going home and cracking open a beer, he would talk about chardonnay. When the state examiner was there, while he was waiting for everyone else to take their "official" road test, this guy was so nervous he threw up in the grass. He ended up failing because he was so freakin' nervous. I heard the state examiner tell the instructor that when they got to the railroad tracks, he forgot to roll down the window (we had to do that for the test) and he gets halfway over the tracks and slammed on the brakes. Then he moved the truck about 5 feet forward, jumped out and threw up again in the middle of the street, without setting the parking brake, and he was still on the tracks.

 

lol....im pretty sure its not in the cdl book but i would think stopping on railroad tracks to throw up without setting the brakes would be one of those unwritten rules

 

Yeah I had almost forgotten that guy til I started reading posts full of rookies talking about their driving schools, then you mentioned office pencil pushers.

I think that guy's name was Roland. I wish I'd gotten his last name, I'd look him up on Facebook just to see what he's up to. He did eventually pass the test, though. Somebody gave him a couple xanax before his re-test.

 

I would ask him to pay you the mileage you run too from off his paycheck also since he is so greedy to have some newbie to train that could run him down the Grapevine and KILL him. Sheesh he doesn't sound like the greedy one. How many fingers are pointing towards you, when you point your finger at him???
BTW what is American Trucker doing with a trainer I thought he went solo? J/K