Extra help for newbie trainers question

I was with prime before a few months ago and they are a cdl mill. They have you in orientation for 4 days then you are put with a trainer for 20-40k miles depending on experience. Their goal is to have an inexpensive co driver for team runs during that time because your pay is either $600 per week or .14c per mile plus fuel bonus. I already had almost a year of local driving experience so I did not need much in fact I made just under a grand my second week because we ran over 7k miles and average 7.5 mpg for the week. My trainer made around $1600 I believe. In the Pittston Pa terminal they average 30-40 in orientation per wk and probably 75 or more in Springfield Mo but they are not putting that many more trucks on the road so yes they have a high turn over rate. I hope Schneider is not like that when I start orientation tomorrow but just from the looks of the training schedule I don't think it is.

 

My class in Fontana was 18 people and we were told that was high. In my opinion Schneider prefers quality over quantity.

 

From the article you provided a link to

Industry wide ?

 

The amount of money you made and your time spent intrastate driving is irrelevant when going otr. Intrastate driving is not recognized as otr experience so you start at the beginning like any other newbie. Claiming that you "did not need much" is incorrect. With no otr experience, you need SO much more experience than you think you do.

You're correct that too many companies abuse the training time and use trainees as cheap labor to team drive. It's a practice that should be addressed industry-wide and corrected even if (gasp) regulation is necessary.

 

Yep. The snippet you provided focuses on ltl only. The 8 and 9 percent figures are the amount of turnover INCREASE the ltl industry had, NOT its total. Are you trying to be intellectually and intentionally dishonest or did you really miss the entire first paragraph of the article?

"According to the ATA, the driver turnover rate has exceeded the 100% mark for the first time in 4 years. The ATA's quarterly Trucking Activity Report stated that fleets reporting over $30 million in revenue had a 16% increase in driver turnover in the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] quarter alone, bringing it to 106%. This means that on average, drivers at large companies change jobs every 343 days."

 

Anyone famiiar with the industry can see your lack of comprehension is incredible.

http://m.worktruckonline.com/news

 

And your link to "work truck" website is supposed to disagree with the data provided?

Perhaps I should have lowered myself to personal insults with your previous mistaken comments. Nah, I'll leave that kind of behavior to you.

YOU referred to the ltl industry and completely glossed over the industry as a whole. The data didn't agree with your agenda so you cherry-picked it apart until you found a segment that does. My statement stands ... the turnover rate I indicated is industry-wide as a whole. Try again.