Need a new trainer badly

I don't understand why there are so many Prime haters on here, really.

The trainer situation is unfortunate, but not uncommon- particularly among lease ops who only went to training to try to keep from going under. The key is to make sure that Steve or Linda upstairs know about what's going in. They don't abide by trainers or instructors doing this sort of thing.

 

JB, being an ex Prime trainer I think maybe I can shed some light. Prime needs trainers BADLY, they have more students than trainers. I know for a fact that while I was there that there was 1 certain trainer that had been warned multiple times about the state of the interior of the truck was unacceptable, but I would see him every month or so, with another student, who would be complaining about it, but nothing was ever done.

Other times there I met students and trainers out on the pad where the trainer COULD NOT train the student how to back, they just did not know how to do it.
I personally think there needs to be 1 person out on the pad who is in charge of the pad and who can assist. There was not while I was there.
There needs to be standardized training, while Prime does give out a training plan, I can guarantee 75% of the trainers do not follow it.

Backing training needs to be standardized. While, even on here, I have seen and heard that backing training is taught when the trainee comes in to test, that IS NOT the time to train backing, backing should be trained in the real world, not on the pad. The pad is there only to train for the test.

Pre-trip training needs to be standardized and enforced, I developed a script that my students used and had to memorize for the pre-trip exam. Once my students learned the script they then had to tell me why and what they were examining the item on the truck for.

Shifting training, did you know that the folks at the simulator train the students to shift at 1500 rpm, not 1200 rpm, one of the biggest struggles I had was training the students to upshift between 1100-1200 rpm and down shift at 900 rpm. Also not to press in the clutch all the way. When I would ask them why they were doing it, I almost always got the answer, thats how the guys at the simulator taught me.

Prime also needs to get away of pushing training as a way for the L/O to generate revenue. Seems the only reason the L/O is taking a trainee is to generate revenue.

I could be wrong in all this and I am sure it will get picked apart by the cheerleader, but that is my observations.

 

That's accurate on many counts, and I have my own views on how to improve the system.

But I'm just a grunt.

 

There's a lot of improvement that could be made. It could stand the scrutiny of a real instruction systems development review.

 

Real world backing would have been great. During tnt we didn't ever really stay in a truckstop so I have never backed between 2 trucks other than straight line. Running over a cone on the pad isn't as terrifying as the thought of hitting someone's truck. I know that makes me look bad to admit that but it's something I wish I could have gotten experienced in with a spotter.

 

Finally,

well spoken.


Seems that all the modern technology hasn't really done much to improve their program.

Will any changes be made ?

 

The simulator program is an improvement itself. It allows the instructors to put the students into a situation that is too dangerous for both the students and equipment to be in... and teach proper responses to avoid or recover from those situations. But I wouldn't expect someone as biased as you to either understand or recognize that as an improvement.

 

Hey EVL1,

What happened next? Better trainer?

 

He lived happily ever after.