Trainers

It's not night, its Knight...I thought you were on top of this stuff Dave...face palm

 

So you don't have a CDL just a learners permit and you were teaming with a trainer at Swift?

 

If you go through Swift Academy they get a temporary CDL, then go straight into orientation and get assigned a trainer. Their actual CDL comes in the mail. It was common as a trainer to be routed to the trainee's home to pick it up or if a relative could FedEx it to a location we knew we would be at, like a terminal, we did that. It's the responsibility of the trainer to make sure this happens before the temporary CDL expires. You can run as a team with a temporary CDL. The first 50 hours behind the wheel a trainee cannot run team.

 

^^ So your on a temporary CDL.

A temporary CDL is still a CDL. WTF is the OP wining about then? Didn't they teach him anything in Swift trucking school?

 

If swift are allowing you to come back i'd stick with them just put up with the training and stay for 12 months keep a clean record then move on. The best training you'll get will be when you actually go out on your own that's when the real test will begin.

 

6 months is plenty as long as he does not get a preventable or ticket.

 

I think the OP should post the trainers name & phone number so we can straiten this guy out.

I mean, it's not like he was like the one trainee I had that got on the truck with nothing more than a laundry basket full of stinky laundry. I mean stinky. Like I had left some old underwear in the gera box outside for like 18 months that didn't smell that bad. And he didn't smell much better. He had 0 money, and had already lost his medical long form.

When he got in the seat to drive the first time he started sobbing. BIG 'OL crocodile size tears. Hands shaking like a leaf.
At the end of his first shift, he proudly walked into Pilot, chest puffed out, demanding a sandwich from the girl at Subway ( with my money ), ready to enlist in Navy and become a commando.

So we want to straiten this trainer out. Cause God knows the trainees are A.J. squared away.

 

Run at night. If not now you will be very soon. You need a trainer for that.

A trainer that plays video games while you drove? I don't think so. Unacceptable.

And there will be more near misses in your lifetime. Those become stories.

I think you need a new trainer and getting back to Wyoming for your CDL. Half the stuff you posted about this trainer makes me not want that one around training people. There is training people and then there is loafing around collecting a salary he is not entirely entitled to.