Training Pay Question

It means that you will be paid aprox 71.00 per day / 500.00 per week but that is after you are assigned a trainer. If there is no trainer avalible then you may sit for free until one is avalible.

 

I got paid for sitting 2 days waiting on my trainer. Yes pretty much it's 500 for one weeks worth of work. I know this sucks but....500 is pretty good actually. I got paid 350.

 

Don't worry, there are no ignorant questions. And husbands never ask enough questions.

 

Hi JWB, my guess and its only that, is that since he is OTR then the pay would be for 7 days. As far as time off thats pretty hard to say, if his trainer lives close to you guys maybe you will see him fairly often, then again if not, maybe he will be stuck in a truck stop or staying in an extra bed at the trainers house or at a motel if they get by there. My guess again, I do alot of that, is that since the trainer probably gets paid all miles that the truck runs, he will want to run for most of your husbands training period and take his time off between students, so your husband might get a day off here and there. When I went through training some time ago, I was on the truck for two months I believe and we got through my trainers hometown at least four times, three times he put me up in a motel and one time I stayed at his familys house. Hope your husband does well.

 

When my boyfriend was training they made it to his trainer's house probably a half dozen times, and he sat for 6 days while his trainer spent time with his mom in Arkansas. He sat in the truck the entire time. They ran as much as possible except for the 6 days.

 

Ow what great news! lol, I guess he will just have to suck it up for his 6 -8 weeks of training! I guess we can be thankful that his trainer is not trying to run a team with him, they both sleep at night. One more question, how do you get a trainer to quit being a serious back-seat driver???? This is my husbands problem because he is quiet, doesn't mouth off, but takes his job seriously. The trainer told a supervisor at one of their terminals that my husband was the best trainee he has ever had so I know it's not that he is a bad driver. My husband said he likes the guy but he is making him a nervous wreck with all the "turn her, watch that, move over", etc, lol. I told him to just let the guy know that he is really distracting him and he is trying to drive so lay off please. He probably won't, lol.

 

Lol, well thats what trainers are, is back-seat drivers

 

THAT'S HIS JOB, better then the ones who crawl in the sleeper and don't give any advice. Just tell hubby to listen and remmeber the smallest things because that's what will save his life someday.