Trainers

Good Luck ..

 

The cab of a truck is a real small world. Do your best to blow off the little stuff, but that doesn't mean you should put up with abuse. Stay in touch with the driver manager during this time at least weekly. Ask questions about everything, and make sure you understand what your trainer requires of you whenever you're doing something that is unfamiliar.

 

Wild Murphy, are you overweight ? They like to diagnose drivers with Sleep Apnea. Just say no if they try to push that onto you.

 

Insurance companies control who gets in the seat, and if they require a test so be it. Sleep apnea is a real disease, and if you want to drive you may have to take a sleep test.

 

Yes you may have to take a test but not one your guaranteed to fail regardless of whether you have Sleep Apnea or not.

 

If you have time, talk to drivers that train. At some companies you can request a trainer. As a trainer I can request a trainee; and if he and I get along I will give him my information and he can give it to those in charge of assigning trainer and trainee and put those who already get along together. That's the process I go through when meeting my students instead of perfect strangers being assigned to me.

 

I would cut my own throat if I had to spend weeks living with another dude in a truck. I just can't do it. The one time I was with a trainer I was in his truck for 4 nights and it was the longest 5 days of my life!