SHOULD mentors pay for their students food?

I think the recruiters should be more honest about the situation they face, but we shouldn't be too sad for people who get upset when things are exactly as promised and they just can't hang. Right now I eat on 50 dollars a week and I'm not even in a truck. I'm not really sure how people can't survive on twice that amount every week for 6 weeks. I have a file of the various promises recruiters have made me in my email inbox. Aside from outright lying about miles and potential earnings, they have been pretty up front that I need to have money to survive for a few weeks until I start getting "paid"

 

Why should trainers have to pay for the students food.?The companies should give the students a weekly food allowance .

 

Seriously this is a job, it is not a voluntary service in a foriegn country or the military or grade school.

We work in the real world and those who are hired should expect to feed themselves or not be there, this speaks volumes of how bad our standards are with the people who are driving among us that we have to help just in basic responsibility of feeding themselves. Just expecting the company to foot the bill for something that is a basic responbility is ridiculous.

 

There are companies that do have a food allowance like $10.00 a day.Considering the poor wage companies pay trainees,they should buy them one meal a day.I do not feel trainers should be responsible but the carrriers yes or pay the trainees more.

 

They didn't take you to raise! Why are the trainees deserved of free food in your opinion? I carried a cooler and plenty of food that my students were welcomed to if they needed it. But in no way should I have been required to pay to feed a grown man who is making a paycheck. sheesh!

 

Triple that.

That was what I netted as a trainer. Spouse trainee only got a couple hundred if that the time she trained. It was no problem covering her the whole time until she made it to what we would consider regular pay and really run off the miles on that truck.

Considering the responsibility therein in molding a trainee towards a life time of trucking 1500 net is good. It will cover the feeding of same if it comes to that. (I rather not because charity has sometimes worn out.

I was reading a book about a hundred years old regarding the panama canal. It was stating the old economic problems of the Caribbean worker being paid so little as to be unable to afford to eat the fine foods that he or she harvests in the field and must settle for marked up and taxed to max inferior foods from overseas. All of the workers were carefully taken care of and paid, and sometimes fed by the nation at a small loss during the years of the project.

 

LOL At CR England . . . as an alleged student I was feeding, loaning money to MENTOR 'cause, as an lease op PHASE II trainer, he was constantly BROKE!!

Irony was, just after my leaving for 'solo', they wanted to make him a
PHASE 1 !!!

 

The trainer should be buying the mentor meals in appreciation for all the sage advice.

 

My mentor liked the fact that I could run hard like him . Which made us both a lot of money. In return he bought me dinner every night which was cool of him.

 

My trainer bought me meals,soda and smokes and had accumulated shower coupons because I made him money and one trainer wanted to team but of course I declined.I applied as solo not team.But he was always there if I had questions once I went solo.But I do not feel it's the trainers responsibility to make sure their students are well fed every day.I do however think companies should pay by the mile whatever their starting wage is and keep them in good consistent miles thru their entire training period or compensate them for the downtime.It would show me the company actually values there drivers.You trainers I know work hard and so does the trainees during the learning process.Its a shame companies can't see that and could care less who stays,who quits and who gets unjustly fired.