Best companies for trainers?

Could you name some companies that pay well?

 

You mean for solo drivers?
Jim Palmer Trucking - I think .40 cpm plus accessorial pays.
Continental Express - .48 cpm loaded/.41 cpm empty plus accessorial pays.
All tanker companies pay well; especially hazmat tankers.

 

What's you new av mean?

 

I've been reading Indian River Transport threads on here. Food grade tanker outfit. Those drivers seem to do really well. I really like their coast to coast runs. Don't know how their pay structure is, but their drivers can fill you in if interested. I've thought about going there, but never made the jump.

• Indian River Transport runs a late model tractor fleet consisting of 600 Peterbilt, Kenworth and Freightliner tractors.

• All trucks furnished with refrigerators and premier interior packages, over 70 inch sleepers.

• All tractors are assigned and are less than 36 months old.

 

It's a secret.

 

With a handshake?

 

We have ways to get it out of you...

 

I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.

 

Back on topic, I'll kinda piggyback what Dave_in_Az was saying. I trained 5 drivers at previous (mega) carrier and did my very best to take my time, give them highest level of attention, advice, answering questions that I could. My motivation was extra money primarily, but also just my nature to do a good job imparting all the knowledge I could that their overloaded brains could handle.

First off many might say I had no business training with my level of experience and that's a valid point. But I knew how to get my job done and that's what the trainee needs at a basic level, to get up to speed so they can go learn on their own all the various situations that experience brings. Each trainee was with me for a month, which sucked on its own merit because I'm not about wanting to share such limited personal space with a stranger, slip bunk the same bed with them.

Main thing was the bad quality of people I trained. Actually I was lucky with the first couple drivers, just luck, we got along well and showed each other respect. Third guy was young, very young, at truck stops guys would actually comment as we walked through "oh kid, whoa you too young!" Eventually my luck ran out and I lost all interest in teaming up/training with some clowns. They all were inexperienced drivers, some would listen to me better than others, but all put us both at risk on the road with their lack of skill to varying degrees.

I made good money, very good during the peak weeks when each driver almost done with training on my truck. But never again, not worth it.

 

My trainer was like that.
He had 6 years in at Swift when he trained me, and I learned a lot.
He would point out the smallest details of what we were doing, and the why of it.
He taught me so many things that other new driver seem to have no clue about.

I have been with Swift nearly 7 years, and he is still with Swift. That would give him around 13 years here.
We meet randomly from time to time at a terminal or truck stop.

There are so many horror stories about trainers.
I had a good one, luckily, but so many do not.
And it boggles my mind that these companies do not monitor the people that train new drivers more closely, and get rid of the ones with the most complaints.

Or simply watch how those driver do as solo drivers once they do not have someone else around.
Because I have encountered new drivers that had no clue as to what they were supposed to do once they went solo.
Some could not even figure out scaling a load or scanning a trip sheet in.