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New driver with NO trainer at all

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by JestCat, Jul 27, 2012.

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  1. Jul 28, 2012 #21
    Allow Me.

    Allow Me. Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    I too never had a trainer. Went to CDL school, bought a truck, leased on to a moving company and headed to El Paso from L.A. Just figured it out as I went. Plus, talking to other drivers at truck stops helped. But I am adventuresome and like challenges. Your boss is a phone call away, you have us here on TTR to help, you'll do fine. PM me and I'll give you my cell.
     
    Allow Me., Jul 28, 2012
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  3. Jul 28, 2012 #22
    25(2)+2

    25(2)+2 Trucker Forum STAFF Staff Member

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    How extensive was your school, just enough to get your license or lots of hours over a period of weeks and/or months? If the run is out and back with everything the same or mostly the same, it wouldn't be that bad.

    I never went with a trainer, I'm still driving and going to places I would never have dreamed of, and my wife, who insisted on going to a "free" training company, and had 1 terrible excuse for a "trainer", and then the 2nd wave "trainer" who was basically there to wave goodbye. She never had a ticket in her life until she went out with that first suicidal idiot, and she had never been as emotionally abused by a stranger until she went out with the 2nd one.

    All of the stories about bad trainers kind of balance out the stories of the good trainers. I see lots of examples of poor driving and aggression from companies that use trainers, too.
     
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  4. Jul 28, 2012 #23
    dayzedandconfuzed

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    Amen to this...you never know untill you try...use your head and be careful..

     
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  5. Jul 28, 2012 #24
    VA CDL Holder

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    How is it even possible for a company to clear a driver, with no experience, through their insurance company these days? The insurance companies are the "buck stoppers" of the trucking industry from what I've read.
     
    VA CDL Holder, Jul 28, 2012
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  7. Jul 28, 2012 #25
    Cranky Yankee

    Cranky Yankee Cranky old ######

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    there was something in the 70's that if you just hauled your own product no HOS I think
    either that or i just was a cowboy and did what I wanted to way to long ago to remember
    today with all the regs and elogs and and and I am glad I had a trainer to show me where to start being able to think on my own
    Every Walmart reciever is different let alone every reciever is different. I get to every stop early enough to get my break in and am
    just happy if I don't have to leave and go find a TS
     
    Cranky Yankee, Jul 28, 2012
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  8. Jul 28, 2012 #26
    shantyshaker12

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    I never had a trainer or went to school. I have been driving nearly 18 years. You will be fine on your own, if you aren't sure ask!
     
    shantyshaker12, Jul 28, 2012
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  9. Jul 29, 2012 #27
    TahoeTrucker

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    I see it as not being a huge problem going straight from school to OTR if the route does not include any passes or steep downgrades. I know my school I went to mostly aimed at trying to get you to pass the DMV test. The company I work for now gave me more training combined in the first week than any time I ever spent at truck school.

    If you think that everybody who gets their license is ready to tackle Donner right off the bat, maybe google Donner crash 08. Rookie driver with his license for only 9 days with a trainer sleeping in the sleeper. If your a flatlander then you have less worries than if your out here hitting the Rockies, Sierras and Cascades on a regular basis. Although I have observed some real moronic moves just in parking lots that could have been easily prevented if common sense was applied but then again I suppose common sense is not that common these days.
     
    TahoeTrucker, Jul 29, 2012
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