wil-Trans Springfield MO

This is great! As long as drivers refuse to go to a company because of certaing things they do not like then the company will not have enough drivers coming in and be forced to lower their standards. Fact is Wil-Trans is a small company that pulls prime freight. One driver killing a family in a car on the way home from church would devistate the company and they would be forced to go out of buisness. They want to make sure they have the best of the best and if they feel a driver needs some additional training then they offer another way for thay driver to work for them. When I started with Wil-Trans three years ago there was not a training program. If you didnt meet the min. standard then you had to go eles where until you did. Fact is if you want to go to another company that puts you in a trainer truck for six weeks and you feel that is enough training for you then their are plenty of companys out their that will do that for you. And one other thing. If you are getting paid .14 to run team and get trained at the same time. Hmmm Teams normaly run aroung 5000 mls a week. 700bucks aint nothin to sneez at to be trained to do a job.

 

WOW???

They call it training!!!!!

I gotta beleive it's nothing more that getting a team driver for some cheap wage. How does this work? The trainer gets a guy that's called a trainee, (they use to be called 2nd driver). Then the 2nd driver, trainee, does everything the 1st driver, (now called a trainer), does but the so called trainee gets paid much less, plus in this case has to pay the company too.

Only in America, post Ronald Reagan, the guy who signed Amnesty, the life long union man who betryed the American working class, could companies come up with the verbiage like the misuse and abuse of the word trainee, and at the sametime brainwashed Americans into buying it "hook line and sinker".

Does this "take the cake" or what??????

I just love that little blue face and the WTF. Together they work excellent with tubuku's discovery of the madness in trucking.

 

Are you sure on the 15 months? That sounds a little long. As for the training aspect, it has nothing to do with cheap labor. A good trainer has the trainee do everything possible, not because the trainer is lazy or doesn't want to do it, but because it affords the trainee the opportunity to experience as much of the trucking life as possible while there is someone there to ask questions of. The first time I backed under a trailer that was up to high on the landing gear and put the king pin over the fifth wheel, I was wishing that had happened with my trainer. I could have asked him how to fix the problem. Instead I had to figure it out by myself. Lost some precious time plus it was a hot day.

Unfortunately, a trainer will never be able to show a trainee everything. A good driver understands that he/she will learn something new everyday. I am considering becoming a trainer some day (I actually spent half of my naval career as a trainer/instructor). My goal in doing so is to help someone who is new to the industry learn everything possible. Does that mean I will make the trainee do everything possible while I look on? You bet it does! That is how you train someone. They get a lot of teaching in the classroom but training takes place in the field. Better for the trainee to do it under my observation, answering their questions then doing everything myself and having them watch. Again, a good TRAINER makes the trainee do the work so they learn by experince.

 

I wish this type of training program would have been around back in the mid 90's when I drove. Driving with an experienced driver for 15 months is one of the reasons I want to go with Wil-Trans when I start back driving in February. I believe that driving with an experienced driver 15 months will make me a better driver and increase my chances of being successful in trucking. When I drove back in the mid 90's I only went with a trainer for 3 weeks and I was on my own. The first couple of months that I was on my own I wish that there would have been another driver in the truck with me.

 

Wil-Trans jumps when prime tells them to. It is prime to the extent of things. Who is the load for and who is it making the money for? I have a friend that drives for wil-trans and he absolutely hates it and says it is no different from prime. I considered going there but when its no better than the company I was with first, Why?

 

'A neighbor went to PRIME INC. back in Feb 2004. he tryed to enter .Wil -Trans..
cdl training. and was told no because of the Feb 2004. training situation..
With PRIME INC . Feb 10 2004 Cruzer

 

Wil-Trans Pulls Prime Freight. They are not Prime. Trust Me. I was with them for three yrs. I finished my lease and got every dollar coming to me befor I left. All the fleet mgr's are very good, they have been there a long time and know how to make a truck money. I remember a fleet mgr. that had came over from Prime a couple of yrs ago and after about six months she was let go because she was playing favorites with her drivers. Darrel Wilson does not put up with that kind of foolishness. They are all very friendly there in the office. If you dont make money with Wil-Trans then the problem very well just might be "You"!............Peace

 

SO is Wil-Trans still telling people 3 days class then 30 days trainer? I am looking into changing jobs did apply like I said before in post but is WIl Trans Differnet or the same?

 

I just filled out a app i have about 4 years exp they told me i could lease as soon as i got there. But said 70% was the pay to truck. Have they dropped pay rates???