trainer from HELL still loving it though

Please define "real professional" I would suggest you quit looking for faults in your trainers and just learn as much as you can from them and get out on your own. After a week you'll wish you still had someone to talk to in that truck.

 

Wow....you hit the nail right on the head there! I am simply dumbfounded why there are trainers out on the road who display this kind of behavior and lack of professionalism! I'm new to this industry, but even I have an ounce of common sense as to how to approach training when two complete strangers have to come together and live in a tiny box for 4-6 weeks.

TooGroovy, I don't want to hi-jack your thread, so I'll start a new thread on "Prime PSD Instructors", even though what I want to say is directly related to some of your concerns, I just don't want it to detract from your own comments.

Good Luck to you, glad to hear you're on the right track now with your new trainer!

 

To chime in. They are unprofessional because they are allowed to be. When the trainee is done training (PSD phase) he is given a critique to fill out and turn in. The trainee should be truthful and fill that sucker out. Personally I as an instructor want to know how I was viewed by the trainee and what I can do to improve my training practices. Now that said, how many others feel that way I unsure but I know if 2 others here on the Prime thread who I think pretty much feel the same.

Also Global, keep in mind you are prior military, like me an SE, so you are used to be trained using OJT records and such, and a structured training plan. Prime really does not have one, structured training plan that is. I really wish they would adapt one, but they probably won't.
Best thing I can tell you guys is to hang in there, get the training done and get your own truck. Then when the time comes become a trainer and do it properly.

 

I couldn't agree with you more. Don't worry, I will objectively write a critique on both instructors. If in the future I decide to instruct, you can bet I'll have a training program laid out that makes sense and works for both of us. My biggest concerns I've had up to this point though don't necessarily derive from an Instructor who didn't have a training plan (although that is one area for sure), but rather the concerns come up with instructors who shouldn't be trainers to begin with. They don't actually train the student, but rather just sit their butt in the passenger seat and holler rude obscenities when the student causes that annoying buzzer to sound when you cross the line with wind gusts at 30 mph. I'm just being a little sarcastic, but for a good reason. A more appropriate method might be to explain to the student the first time that happens some of the corrective actions and preventative actions we can take to keep better control over the rig when in high winds and at what point do we say "it is no longer safe". Waiting until we see "Prime" in our sideview mirrors is probably a bit too late!
It's just some very basic common sense approaches to training that would go a long way. I imagine there are quite a few trainers who are out there teaching things properly, and for those guys...great job! Unfortunately, it's probably just the few bad ones you hear about on a blog...hehehe.