Signs of a bad company.

I agree. There are also companies that make you pay for your own drug test, don't pay for orientation, your road test is 6 hours long and involves several trailer moves (see also free labor), you go to the office to give them a voided check for direct deposit and they keep you there for hours doing orientation because your not on the payroll yet and therefore it doesn't cost them anything. And the list goes on and on...

 

MOST COMPAINIES WILL DO A 4 TO 5 WEEK TRAINING TIME FOR BRAND NEW DRIVERS, IF THEY WANT TO HAVE A GOOD PERSON BEHIND THE WHEEL OF THEIR TRUCK. IF YOUR ONLY GETTING ONE WEEK,YOU SHOULD LEAVE THEM NOW. CALL AROUND OR TALK TO OTHER COMPANY DRIVERS WHILE YOUR OUT. BOUNCING AROUND WILL HURT YOU IF YOU DO IT TO MUCH, BUT KILLING SOMEONE BECAUSE OF YOU NOT BEING TRAINED IS WORSE. GOOD LUCK TO YOU

 

Actually going to work for a new company next week. They want me to do a week with one of their drivers for "training." Granted I've got 70k miles under my belt, but I'm a new guy for them.

I don't mind this. Yes, it's a week at sub-par pay, but ONLY a week.
I might actually learn something, who knows?

Sick to death of hearing some super-trucker telling new guys "how it is" with not a clue as to how it ACTUALLY "is".

You get out of CDL school. You can kinda drive and kinda back. THAT'S how it is.

5k miles down the road you realize how LITTLE you learned in school.

20k Add more to the above.

Somewhere about 100k miles of commercial driving, you either

a: pretend you were never a noob and think you're all that.
b: realize how little you STILL know about your job, because the real pros NEVER stop learning.

Frankly, I'll take group B.

After having some real pros with many years on the road stop and help me out with a difficult load, I don't think I'm crazy for thinking that the road will ALWAYS teach you, if you're willing to listen.

And if you're stupid enough to think you learn all that in your 160-hour course, God help you.

 

wow thats insane

 

I would neve consider anybody a sub-human who felt they needed more training,that is a good,But you'll look back on this way of thinking and think you may of over thought it a bit..I would welcome a oppertunity to just be handed to keys and told to do it..I pulled doubles all the time and boss says your doing triples next trip,,I said l never did those before,do l need training or certification or something,,he says if you "get it there" your certified..

 

It's a flat bed company out of northern Cal that does that. I talked to two of the drivers one fresh out the other was at CR both knew nothing about the work they were doing one told me he smoked the brakes down donner but at .30cpm you get what you pay for

 

I like paper logs, too, but I can see the reason why some prefer elogs. Being given loads with jacked-up delivery schedules and then being told to "fix it" in the log book is one of those things that will make me want to drive my rig straight through the office and turn the dispatcher or load planner into a human hood ornament. Nothing gets me into a homicidal rage faster than a load planner who writes a check with his mouth that my _ss somehow has to cash. It's not my fault you can't schedule/plan a load to save your life; I shouldn't have to run outlaw and risk my job simply because you can't do yours.

Elogs just take the option of sticking the driver with that responsibility off the table. No more making the driver eat a feces sandwich because some nimrod promised 2.5 days on a load which legally takes 4 days to run. It stops some of the buck-passing and makes certain other people in the logistics chain start actually having to do their jobs (in theory, anyhow).

 

E-logs do more for the driver than the company, by a long shot.
Yes, they suck when you've reached the end of your 14 hours and are desperately trying to park. Other than that, I have no complaints.

And EVERYONE logs off-duty when waiting to load, even though technically, you're on-duty, not driving. And I have yet to hear of a ticket on this because every DOT officer out there seems to grasp this.

I really like the 14-hour rule. It makes a lot of sense. The 70-hour rule is just stupid, and like any stupid rule, is routinely ignored.

PROVE I was "on-duty" at a shipper waiting my turn. PROVE IT. Not gonna happen.

But E-logs stop a dispatcher from giving you loads you can't possibly make with the expectation you'll cheat on your 11 or 14. For that reason alone, I favor them.

 

is the training the reason why you dont like this company?poor and little training is a sure sign the company is bad and will not get any better the entire time you're employed there.Crete is suppose to be a good company with supurb training.I would stay away from the aggressive companies meaning they really try hard to sell you a driving job starting with their ads.Craig list is full of those companies.maybe talk to other drivers about a certain company that you're considering.listen to them before recruiters.