22 year old with bad expierence - Werner.

What I said is based on other information I read in another post he posted in. I do not blame him for leaving after getting the crap he was going through. But with the statement that was removed and what I read in another post is where I was coming from about his attitude.

Have been through it and survived 9 weeks while having to stand out in below freezing weather doing push ups in Cape May NJ.

russwasherejr

If you waited till they gotten back to the terminal good chance you could have gotten a new trainer, But while under a load, you had to move on. Do you expect them to divert him so you can get off the truck and cost them? Common sense says no. Apparently this has been going on a while so what you should have done was requested another trainer earlier, before it got over whelming. It's call knowing your limits.

In your next adventure out, if you go out with a trainer which I feel you will have to, before try to sit down and talk with him. Get to know him a little and see what he expects, and what type of a person he/she is.

 

My first trainer with Swift should not have been allowed to train. I waited until we were at our home terminal, went and spoke to my SDM and requested a new trainer. She had a new one within a half hour for me after what I told her. My problem was that I had a trainer that didn't think women should be driving truck, and he made that very clear. Some trainers should not be trainers, but one has to have the proper attitude also. I'm a naturally upbeat person, and always give things time before I act.

 

This is what I hate about our industry, a lot of men (not me included) think a women's place is at home cooking, cleaning, raising the kids, and taken care of the husband. This is balona, there a lot of women in the industry who drive far better then men do..

 

He would have only cussed at me twice.

After the second time he wouldn't have been capable of cussing a 3rd time.

I used to be in the restaurant business and had to deal with constantly training new workers and dealing with bad attitudes from staff and customers. Thru it all I never cussed at anyone and never raised my voice. Doing so relfects badly on you as a professional. Emotional displays do nothing but prove that you are unable to control the situation or yourself.

The real problem is that these companies have so many newly empty seats to fill each week that they have to let anyone that wants to be a trainer weather they are cut out for it or not.

 

My thinking too, always the way I have been.

 

That's why Warner gets the big FAIL.

If the company I work for can get you home every 7 to 10 days and do it being non forced dispatch, anybody can because they are far from being perfect.

 

I didn't have the same kind of trouble as you did. But I also told my trainer that I came from running my MARTIAL ARTS SCHOOL to that. I am professional in everything I do and take pride, but I don't get talked down to, cussed at, or dishonored like that. I don't blow up at anyone... I talk first, cause most everything can be resolved by talking it out.

I didn't call the company, but I did pull the truck over and talked to him. If it wouldn't have changed then I would've called the company and went from there.

Luckily, everything worked out.

 

Of the eighty to hundred or so students I have trained over the years, I've only had to put one off the truck, but he refused to follow direction and nearly killed us three times in as many hours with unsafe actions.
Attitude is clearly the main component of any relationship, personal, professional, or otherwise.
Werner did you a dis-service in not allowing you to change trainers, especially allowing an unprofessional person such as you describe to be a trainer.
Thats my $0.02