My first trucking job

What does it mean then?. When you got your license to drive a car, did you have your dad drive with you for the first 5-6 weeks or were you qualified to drive on your own?.

Good advice but too late. I own 5 trucks and have hired drivers with the ink still wet on there new CDL. The fact is, I have more issues with experienced drivers than I do with the newbies. To be clear, I have had some very GOOD experienced drivers and some very GOOD newbies but when I DO have an issue with a driver, it's always with an experienced one. Now to be fair, we are a relatively new company but, 7 years in and we still have a perfect safety record.

 

You keep harping about the GOVERMENT says its ok.

In Ontario there is a GOVERMENT that also says a different story for when they first get a drivers permit.

In Ontario, the graduated licensing system is a time-based process. Once an individual turns 16, he/she is eligible to acquire a class G1 license, which is the beginning stage. This is done by passing both a knowledge test as well as a vision test. The G1 license is required by law to be held for 12 months, unless he/she takes an approved Driver's Education course, by which the waiting time is dropped to 8 months. A holder of a G1 license may drive only with a driver who has 4 years' experience at the G level and with a BAC of under .05 (the passenger driver). At the end of that period, he/she can take a G1 exit test which tests basic driving skills. Passing this grants him/her a G2 license which enables him/her to drive alone with a limited number of passengers in the vehicle, unless certain requirements are met. G2 licenses are kept for 12 months and then he/she can take the G2 exit test, which tests highway driving as well as city driving skills. Passing this grants the Class G licence which is a full license

 

LINER....... that's all fine and dandy But I am not talking cars here and when most of us got our license there was no graduated system, yet we have managed to live long enough to tell of the days before the graduated licensing system came in to hold peoples hand or rather tax it,whichever you prefer.

So what's your point.

 

You do realise that in Canada the employer issues the "hazmat" card?
It is not an endorsement like in the USA where it stays with the license holder from job to job. Every new job, the employee has to re take the test to get a Hazmat card through the employer.

He CAN walk into a company and drive a tanker right out of the test.

 

That's because newbies don't know when their being ripped off.They just don't know any better.Thats why there not a problem, YET.

 

Really? well then, care to tell the class exactly what kind of issues I've had with experienced drivers and exactly HOW my drivers are getting "ripped off"?

 

Sad. New driver comes here for support and and this thread quickly deteriorates into a pathetic debate.
What would you haters have done? Turned down the job? You were new at one time too remember and what would you have wanted in response if you posted.
If you think it's a lot of job for a newbie to take on then offer him suggestions that your experience gives you and maybe you can help keep him and others safe, give the forum a good name, etc. I think that's what this forum was intended for.
BTW, thanks to the guys who gave support, all the best to the new guy (from another new guy).

 

Again, people such as myself were bagging on the hiring company, not the driver. To quote my first post in this thread.....

 

He will be driving HWY 401 thru Toronto (2ND BUSIEST stretch of highway in North America ) and in very different road / weather conditions just from Windsor to Montreal.

He has no on the ROAD experience other than what he did on his own and for his road test ( if he has he never noted it )

Myself I would prefer him to do the run more than just once with a trainer.

Now if it was the other way around , had he went to company XYZ looking for a job with TRAINING and they threw him on this run solo, EVERYONE would be condemming the company for putting him in a BAD situation.

 

Still waiting for the helpful support and advice from the experienced guys.