braking the rules? or suck it up?

Training is supposed to be training not a cheap team!


No snitch huh. Where do you draw the line. Theft, public endangerment, personal endangerment?


OP. I can not comment on norm as I never had a trainer, but he would know what I thought of im and his practices as I informed the company I would have a different mentor or a different company.

All that silliness of pictures and pee is for children. Stand up be a man, don't go behind his back. Don't endanger the equipment setting it beyond capacity. That's just about the dumbest #### set of suggestions I have seen on here.




Good luck

 

That was a good answer..... You had me LMAO !!!!

 

I second that, just stupidity, if you piss in someones reefer or mess with someones equipment you deserve whatever harm comes your way, confront the guy if it upsets you that much, its called having some backbone....

 

Yeah, and most here saw that I wrestled HARD with the decision to report the truck for almost running down my guys.

Did I like it??
NO !!!
But it was a clear cut situation.
And I still feel bad about having to do it.

The OP is disgruntled about little things that he doesn't approve of.
Not one single LAW has been violated that I saw mentioned.
Only some "rules".

He needs to work this out with the guy and get his time in so he can move on.

It accomplishes NOTHING to try and ruin another man for doing what we all have done at some point or another.... or WILL do at some point.

And while I do not agree with the "top bunk" being used in motion, I would just climb down and tell him to give me a heads-up from now on.

Making him stop again so I can have my morning pee (or whatever) would be a good way to show how bad an idea it was to drive off so quickly and without letting me know.

 

This is exactly why I have never and will never train...

The first time some billy big rigger fresh out of good buddy driving school gets in the truck with his "I have or I was taught a better way" your ### would be standing curb side with your bags in your hand looking for a ride home..

 

Yep. Maximizing your time is one thing. When the trainer is telling you that it's "OK" to bend or break the law when it comes to your logbook, is quite another..

Again, the "trainer" demonstrating that it's "OK" to drive distracted....

Yeah, the "trainer" is letting you know that pre-trips/post-trips are immaterial in this CSA 2010 world - after all it's your job on the line, not his....

Absolutely. Trainers are a PITA. Do the minimum learning and comprehending required because you will do what you want when you get an 80,000 lb combination CV on your own anyway, irregardless if it's the right way or not...

Oh hell no...don't report an ineffective and worthless POS trainer because you subscribe to some stupid prison-yard ########.....

RAT THE MF'er OUT - DO IT LOUDLY AND CLEARLY SO HE WON'T ENDANGER ANYONE ELSE ON THE ROAD AGAIN....

The attitude reflected in this post is indicative of WHY there are so many marginal drivers on the road today...

 

Killer idea! Your a friggen evil genius, never thought of that one.
Side note: On the newer Cascadias, on the outside passenger side bottom of windshield there is the fresh air intake and air filter. Big bowl way underneath it with a drain. The filter sits way up. I clean my filter regularly. On these pulling out the air filter and using a jug of your favorite smelly coctail after the fresh air intake filter would be the way to go. Got the nose of a basset hound even light, subtle whatever smells just about kill me. Just looked at air filter. Behind the air filter is huge space. Could probably put a couple fresh samon or trout back there. Get a few trout, suckers, squaw fish whatever without gutting them put them in a bread sack with about a half cup of water or so and tie the bread sack tight so no air can get out. Put the sacks in the void behind the cab fresh air filter. The fish will rot and putrefy, that produces a lot of gas, bad smelling gas. This gas after time will explode the bread sack they are in giving a time delay fuse to the fish bomb. The fish should be mostly liquefied so the purification liquid would just prey everywhere in the fresh air intake for the heater/ air conditioning intake for the truck.

As far as the violence, dealing with it like a man theory, I will for once disagree with that notion. I am prone to violence I have a police record from very long ago that can prove that, and while I dont act upon it most of the time its always right there in my head. So I am all for being a man about it, but there is a time and a place for everything, being a trainee isnt the time or the place. All it would do is prematurly end your carreer forever and end you in jail broke, with no chance of being a trucker. Why you need to improvise, adapt and overcome your violent urges and go for a more subtle approach. What you want to do is make the A-hole trainer pay, but be able to move on.

You will have to bite the bullet, suck it up its only for a short time. Ruffle your trainers feathers a bit to make him pay for being such an ace and to relieve your anger so its not bottled up and you dont act in a violent fassion and end your career in a jail cell. Very little in this industry is done exactly by the book. The way DOT has everything set up it would be impossible for any trucker to make a nickle trucking if it were all by the book. DOT knows this and uses it like the reasonable cause is used in four wheelers. When they know something is up, and they have lots of experience and training so they do know when something is amiss they hammer the bad trucker, on the small things the rest most will let slide on the petty stuff.

 

Reminds me of a similar situation we went through. You never know who is related to who at these mom and pop trucking companies! Sometimes doesn't matter what a person does or how they drive if they are related to higher ups! Just like yourself we were completely and utterly blown away when we found out the results of our situation! We had a good friend that ran the shop and he then filled us in of the "office situation" and how they were all related somehow and watched each others backs above any and all circumstances. Its amazing the "backwoods" thinking that still goes on to this day!

One thing about trucking though is look out for "Number 1" and keep your license clean and you can go wherever you want. Do what some other dumb@$$ tells you (who is protected by the good ol' boy system) and end up losing your license and your done!