I left my trainer

More like trying to build teams with some common ground to avoid conflict. If one group had nicer equipment or better lanes, that might be different though. I didn't get the impression that was the case.

On the other hand, having worked on some global project teams, it can be quite enlightening if you take the time to overlook some cultural gaps and get to know someone that's a lot different than you. So, something to be said for mixing things up too.

 

Just yesterday I told my GPS.
" Oh #### you, you sorry worthless piece of ####. I'm about tired of you ####### me in the ### with no lube. I can't turn here, there no ####### street, what the ####!!! This is route is ####, #### it. Oh wait I had it on car mode."

And thus is a weekly conversation between me and my GPS.

 

Oh Jesus Christ! Like you would get any money out of this. I would counter sue you for wasting my time.
CRIME!!
CRIME!!, LOL

 

I am sorry driver some thing just leave a bad taste in a person's mouth. I am happy if I do not get a dedicated or owner op in them companies that have a set amount of hours. Little guy trucker did werner 275 hours with a dedicated route trainer I imagine he was training for months. And my experience with owner operater is they say f this load f that load. Me and my mentor dropped a load at coca cola to have to go back to the Same place because a owner op lost it on the shipper they told him to leave wasting our and his the shipper time.

 

Wow I never knew so many Native Americans worked in trucking and were on this forum. Because so many people are acting like they aren't descendants of people that immigrated to America.


OPs trainer was in the wrong for what he did. Where he was born is not the reason he was in the wrong either. And its not like no white person had never slapped another white person.


OP good luck on the next trainer.


PS. I yell at my GPS all the time. I also yell at my phone when ever I get an email. I don't yell at people except when I have someone at a call center lieing to me. "ABC and APC batteries are the same..." bull ####.

 

CANADIAN's on another trucking forum are just as bad when it comes to no being born there and worse if the person being discussed lives in BRAMPTON ONT.,

 

They're just as bad on this forum in the Canadian section. Doesn't make them right.

I've also had teachers that weren't born in Canada and it was a lot harder for me to learn from them so I agree that a cultural difference is there. But if someone goes though all the effort of legally immigrating to Canada or the US they deserve the right to be called a Canadian or an American.

 

The slap threat wasn't a serious threat. Most cultures use, or used in the past, pain as a training tool. Go take a few months of traditional martial arts classes in Japan or Korea. When your form is wrong and you are cheating by trying to do things the easier way, the Master will walk up behind you with his wood stick and SMACK you in the area where you are cheating. Then there is the American version of this from earlier generations, before we became a touchy feally, PC bunch of crybabies governed by women and metrosexuals. I remember helping Pappy(my great-grandfather) working cows and the garden and chickenhouses during the Summer. It reminded me of those old WWII movies of the Japanese POW work camps! He was a nice man but hell to work for. Like two different people.

Back to the slap comment. Use humor to help reduce those stressful moments. Tell him he can slap you, but only with his CLEAN hand!

 

The Native Americans migrated through the bering strait thousands of years ago.

I encourage you to learn your history before spouting your ignorance around.

 

We are truck drivers who are just trying to do our job in a 10 x 8 space without killing each other in the process.

Enlightenment seeking is reserved for another time.