Usa truck questions

So I know you need 9000 miles with a trainer if hired right out of school, but is this 9000 miles ran as a team? Or is it the student/new driver driving while the trainer is awake and riding in the passenger seat?

I really do not want to run as a team during training at any company.

 

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Wait, you are saying that when you first go out with a trainer at USA Truck, as a student with no experience, that you have to get 9,000 miles in before you can go solo??

 

Yes. I was told that I'd run 7,500 (EDITED: originally though it was 9000) miles with a trainer upon hire. I went to CDL school and received my class A a few months back, but have no experience.

This seems about middle of the pack as far as training is concerned, where some companies will send you out solo after a two week training period (Watkins Shepard) and others will want you to team for 12 weeks before upgrading to solo (cough cough US Xpress )

Not sure if USA Truck training period is dispatched as a team or if the trainer sits next to the new driver.

 

Right seat only now. We used to start off as solo for 2 weeks then go team but it's only right seat now

 

Do your miles solo with trainer as a passenger. Maybe a month if you have a good dispatcher.

 

your not 7 hrs its like 3 hrs 50 mins just saying I live in Philadelphia MS and did you go to usa truck or still there