10 day training? Are you high?

I think this thread is a recruiting tool by smurf. He was quick to turn from safety to recruiting a driver. Hmmmm interesting.

 

An often cited case, but the facts are slightly different from what most folks are aware of. The coffee in that particular case was considerably hotter than anybody CAN drink. It was the excessive heat that won the case, not the misrepresented idea that there was no "coffee may be hot" warning label.

If you tried to sip some coffee and scalded your mouth so bad you dropped the cup and wound up with third degree burns on your legs, YOU WOULD SUE TOO!

 

Well, IMO I don't believe that 10 days of training is truly enough. But I can also see the other side of the coin on this issue.

1) what is the companies safety rating
2) what is the companies turn over rate.

these 2 become very important when it comes to training, why? Well some of the BFC training mills, will train anyone who can breath, and if one trainer fails a student for one reason or another these same BFC companies take that failed student and put him/her with another trainer.

now if the company that you all are talking about actually has some guidelines on hiring and actually does background checks etc...the likelyhood of hiring a driver that shouldn't be behind the wheel is very low as the company has a way if weeding out the losers.

as far as Werner as trainers go, yes I would have to agree that most use students as log books, have seen it time after time, and it's pretty bad when a driver doesn't even know the basics as how to slide tandems. But the good trainers are not just handing keys over and going to bed.

Werner. England, crst, us express, and I can keep going on with the list all have good trainers and bad trainers, but we are all different some of us can make do with 10 days of training, as long as they have some common sense, while others may need 6-8 weeks or more.

Yes there should be set guidelines on training and how long,

 

My first job was working for a couple of East Indian guys. I show up after my physical and one of them hands me a piece of paper and a set of keys then points to a black freightliner outside and says, "Here is your first load assignment and there is your truck. Good luck buddy."

 

I have found 883BedomRider to be a good poster.

A wise man can find something to learn from pretty much everybody.

 

Mine at USEXPRESS was 180hrs they claim 150hrs but I guess they want that team running makeing that money that's alright good experience I'VE BEEN Driving since 2001 1year with hogan 12yrs in box truck 26 ft box liftgate as a courier all lower 48 states but it doesn't count thats alright now I get my experience go on to bigger N better things

 

By the way talking about training, anyone ever seen or here from driveitusa, wonder how that training went.

 

Wow.. really cant follow your logic... so, if you take a good driver and put him in a werner truck.. the letters are the truck somehow interfere with his ability to drive a truck safely... I jus dont give that much power to vinyl letters...
I take each person and each driver on their own merit.. if they racing through the truck stop.. I deem them unsafe no mater what type of truck they are driving, peterbilt, kenworth, volvo... and no mater who they are driving for...

I do take a lot of personal care and pride in my driving and my job.. I do that because that is the kind of person I am.. if I am going to do something. I am going to do my best at it.. if you read through my posts on this forum.. I am very much about personal responsibility... that is not something that a company give you in their pay and benefits.. you are either a person who holds themselves accountable or you are not, you delude yourself into thinking if you worked for a better company you would be a better driver...

I have my reasons for being with werner.. werner is not for everyone.. but it works good for me..

I do believe.. a good driver starts that way from day one.. not because they have the skillls.. theh dont yet, they will need to learn them... they are a good driver in the mindset they have from the start.. to be a good safe driver.. a bad driver is that way from the start too..