Got my cdl with Central/Swift but....

My grandad started driving trucks in the late 50s. They needed two oversized dozzers in mississippi, and told him he had the rest of the day to learn how to drive a truck in the parking lot before his trip the next day.The next day they gave him gas money and sent him and another guy on there way, both pulling a dozzer.

 

Yep, bit of a learning curve, for sure.

 

doesn't swift get a bunch of negative comments because they train their drivers for a month and they STILL have a terrible saftey rating

maybe they are right

 

schneider gave me 10 days of training when I learned how to drive a tanker, pulling out of the OC I had no clue how to drive a tanker, it later got me fired from Oakley

 

You do realize that a 35.4% on the BASIC means that they were BETTER than nearly 2/3 of the companies out there?

From the FMCSA CSA page:

 

why do a lot of the big companies have so many young trainers? does anybody think that might cause some of this conflicts? i just hope when i go to swift i can get a mentor like chinatown or a lot of the older guys/gals that know what they are doing and can give me some good advice

 

wow, that wasn't a predjucided statement at all

to be honest alot of trainers don't train to be trainers, they do it for the money.

I lost alot of respect for my trainer when he said he mailed his $3500 paycheck to his GF to bail his girlfriend out financially.

I made $450, you made $3500, and I did half the work

 

my point was, the reaon they do is because, for the most part, anyone who wants to be a trainer they usually make a trainer, so they are 100% anonmoyus really

 

i understand i just wanted to know everybody's idea and you made a good point

 

My trainer was passing me off so I pulled in a restarea and was like if u wanna tell me how to drive u can just take over and he was cool after that haha