Questions for Trainers

Why did he only have a trainee for one week? Is he doing PSD, TNT, or both?

 

Was dispatched out of Springfield, always had a PSD in the truck, would do 3-4 weeks with the trainee, test him out, then take 5 days off, then go back to Springfield and get another Student.

 

I am out of Springfield as most of us are, any I have had a TNT trainee on my truck since like the first week of December. All I have done is once one trainee was done and upgraded I usually take my home time and then let my FM know that I am ready to pick up another trainer. If a week or so goes by then I just send a little reminder. Just remember they try to match trainer and trainee by where their homes are and if they are a smoker or not. Now I live in Indiana and my current trainee lives in southern Georgia so matching doesn't always work but they try to get them close or at least my FM does.

 

im guessing he's also on the NE fleet. Sure, you can ask. It might not happen. If it does, are you prepared to lose another .05 per mile leaving the NE fleet?

there are far more TNT trainers than they're are TNT trainees. There's a small percentage of instructors who give up their students to trainers. Most instructors keep their students for TNT.

Best at thing he can do is remind his fleet manager weekly that he'd like to get a trainee.

 

you have to be with Prime for a year driving solo before he can be a PSD instructor not sure how long he has been with Prime. You said he started out in the NE region I am going to assume he has switched since then?

 

If he is still only doing 1600-1900 miles a week in a full size I can bet the piggy bank is not happy. I don't know what the pay for PSD instructors is like so I can't help there except to me it is something that he would really have to want to do. As it has been said he should at least talk to his FM about a trainee that will make the piggy bank happy.