Sleeping In Truck While Solo, and with Trainer

How many 5+year vets do you think each starting company has, and ones that are willing to train?

 

Quite a few. The worst thing you can do is pass judgement on a company based on what you read here and other places on the Internet.

 

hahaha. yup

 

in a perfect world this would be sound advise. to be honest, my "trainer" has less than 2 years under his belt. this sounds absurd I know. but i'd hate to break it to you. this is not brain surgery. if you have enough common sense you can pick up the jist of this business very quick. driving a truck is easy. the only thing to be learned by a trainer is protocol. disagree you will im sure. if you can drive a car, you can drive a truck. the only thing a trainer should be able to teach you are some common courteous practices. you don't need to spend 10 years driving to "see it all"

 

So your going to wait to be the first statistic that safety talks about when they ban sleeping in the top bunk. For you not seeing a obvious risk to life sleeping in the top bunk when the truck is moving is amazing. I think this falls under the category of ...."You can't teach stupid".

 

Typical response from a "know it all" student.

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I don't know what's worse. A trainer that uses a student for nothing more than a extra logbook or a student who thinks they know everything when they graduate from a mill. There's a reason why you're a student.

 

Car drivers are the worst and crash every hour of every day in rain or shine going 10 mph and 70 mph. They routinely drive after drinking and while tired. And don't get me started that 75% of crashes between cars and semi's are caused by car drivers.

Then the car driver goes to CDL school and you put them behind the wheel of a semi. That's who a trainer is dealing with, a car driver. And most of the trainee's don't last, turnover rate for new drivers across the industry has been as high as 79%. Did you know?

Mega carriers want them to quit, they've collected their grant money from the US Government and expect them to wash out. Not everyone can drive. They insure they will wash out with trainers who are there to teach them 'courteous practices'.

 

On a side note, if you told me this in reality, I would kick you off my truck faster than you can do a pre-trip. A student unwilling to learn is no better than the trainer unwilling to teach. If you think you know everything, why bother training in the first place? Get your own authority and find out for yourself how wrong you are. "If you can drive a car you can drive a truck". That's one of the dumbest things I ever heard a student say.

 

im not a student goof ball. I completed my training with my unskilled trainer and have had noting but accident free success for nearly 1 million miles. I worked over the road cross country for 3 years, and I have worked reigionally and locally for the last 3 years. I drive one of your big fancy pants sleeper truck and 53 foot trailers into nyc city every single day and back up to upstate ny. never had an accident. hard to believe that with all that inferior training I managed to make it 1 million miles accident free huh? how often are you in nyc?
somehow I managed to work my way up and get a job earning roughly $1100.00 dollars a week, I work less than 12 hours a day and im home every night with 2 days off per week.

this job is easy and ill do it until I die because I don't want to work for a living.

 

ready my last post. im no student, boy. and the fact of the matter is you are the typical "trucker" who wants to make this job seem like brain surgery.
take a walk through any truck stop and take a look around.
notice all the garbage, notice the stench? notice the bottles of urine strewn about? go inside now. notice how a great percentage of the clientele is fat, toothless, and smells? these are the heros doing your difficult job.
not all truck drivers are fat, stupid, lazy, dumb dumbs, ill admit that.....the second you admit that any idiot can do this job bud.