Unsafe Road Training?

GET HIM OFF THAT TRUCK!!!!!!

as said this is a porblem industry wide, and with these mega carriers forcing the lease down the throats of people, then they have to run extra hard and do stupid careless things like what is going on here..

even it is a company driver trainer, greed is the problem, he needs to get a new trainer and start at square one

 

My first trainer did all of these and then some. When I reported it the company's response was well its his truck he can do whatever he wants and talk to him about it (Even though time and time again I would talk to him about it his response was he was usually it's his truck he can so do what he wants and I needed to quit bi###ing). After what I went through i'm not surprised at what I hear about what trainers do.

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Hey I'm planning on being a trainer lol.

Though roehl has policies in place to keep things like this from happening.

Ethan

 

Actually, it is the the problem of the company, too! Remember, the company can be hit with some hefty fines for allowing their drivers to text and talk on their cell phones without proper/legal hands-free devices while driving a commercial vehicle.

 

Let me rephrase that. I meant i'm not surprised at what SOME trainers do. I forgot a word.

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The trainer knows how to make money by fudging.
Maybe your nephew is in the wrong field of work.

 

Bad advice.. abandoning a truck/load even with someone on the truck is still abandoning a truck / load.. If someone wants another trainer, they need to go through the process that was explained to them when they hired on. If not, they can destroy their career before they start one.

 

Placing "load abandonment" has become just another way for companies to exact a bit of revenge upon drivers who have become fed up with being screwed over. I bailed on a Stevens trainer truck in the midst of a load heading from Washington state to NYC. Told the trainer I was outta there as soon as that truck hit PA (told him in WA, so he had plenty of time to adjust to needing another trainee), and I told him why I was leaving (Stevens had pissed me off for the last time).

I helped the trainer get the truck to well within striking distance for a solo driver to finish the load with plenty of time to spare, meaning the load would actually be on time (a rare occurrance with Stevens at that time, from what I came to understand from various shippers and receivers), and split just south of Pittsburgh. Never saw nothing from Stevens about load abandonment.

The last time I was with Werner, and decided it was time for us to part ways, I told my dispatcher to find me a load going to PA, as that was the direction the truck was going whether he liked it or not. He got me the load, and I left it in Girard, OH (gave dispatch 12 hours notice to find a relay driver to finish the run to Carlisle, PA) so I could take the truck home and clean it out before I turned it in. THAT was blatant load abandonment, and I never saw a thing about it on my DAC. All Werner put there was "eligible for rehire upon review" or some such crap. Of course, the won't hire me now, the picky buggers. Just because I quit on them twice, too.

This "load abandonment" or "quit under a load" crap is exactly that. CRAP! Just another way for XYZ Jerkmeoff Megacarrier to screw over the driver. If they are so petty as to put something like that on your DAC just because you went for a better job, you don't need to be driving for them in the first place.

 

That's your point of view... abandoning loads and or equipment should come with it's just rewards.. that my point of view.

 

And how do you quit if your company keeps you under a load? Or what do you do if you quit, and your company claims you quit "under a load" on your DAC? I've never abandoned equipment in my career, but I have quit "under a load", and not once has a mega-carrier been dumb enough to try and DAC me on it. This is just another fear tactic being used against the newer rookies in the field to try and get them to stick around. A fear tactic that wouldn't be needed if these mega's would attempt to remember drivers are human too and deserve to be treated as such.