Mayday Mayday! Don't go to May Trucking or do I don't care Ha

I'm shocked and appalled. What is your 20?
One of us that has paid our dues will be by shortly.

 

yeah sounds abit like the company i currently drive for they ask drivers who really have no interest in becoming trainers to train you, a trainer really does need the patience to put up with a new drivers lack of skills and to help them improve in a very positive productive manner.

 

See this as a blessing in disguise. Run as far from trucking as you can! Some people just aren't meant to be truckers. If you had held your mouth just right you would still be with your first trainer and driving off into the sunset.

Back in the mid '80s, J.B. Hunt put me with a 'trainer'(?) because I had no OTR experience in my 12+ years of driving Class 8 trucks. The guy hated women, was rude to everyone, visited every possible adult bookstore and always wanted to know if I was jerking myself off in the sleeper. 3 days later, he drops me off at the terminal, telling the assist. terminal manager that he 'was done with me'. Long story short: I left Hunt after approx. 5 weeks - my first attempt at OTR trucking was a complete bust LOL!!! Sadly, I believe trucking has more 'clown trainers' infesting its ranks now than it did back then.

 

@Lonesome will be by shortly with a blanket and hot cocoa

 

Well, ya know, I'd be upset, too. I'm sure the company gave you an unreasonable time to show up and be there. And then they expected you to be there at that time. I'm sure that trainer had a few hours to kill, why couldn't they just wait for your arrival? I just hope you're not scarred for life, and such. Potential growth is a terrible thing to just stamp out. GOSH DANG THEM ANYWAY!!

Hey @TB John John Do ya think May will notice how I told em?

 

What lack of knowledge in the book? Thats mostly all common sense. Did you pass.your road test?

 

I'm sending e mails to all training mega's on this persons behalf recommending sensitivity training for trainers.

 

At my final employer prior to retirement, my trainer was a brand new hire and just a few months ahead of my 'hire in' date. This was a 'specialized' carrier and neither of us had experience in this field before despite both of us having decades of trucking experience. He had no business training anyone and quit just a few months after releasing me. I witnessed many deplorable actions on the part of trainers at that employer and am truly surprised there haven't been many more assaults and murders of trainers there or anyplace else.

I've also been a Trainer at my final two employers. I believed in giving everyone a chance as only 'you can get yourself fired'. However, there were a handful of people who were just too dangerous to themselves and the general public. I recall one such driver I warned management about but they overrode my recommendations and stated they were 'forced to hire him' due to the usual 'diversity and inclusion' nonsense. He lasted nearly one month, leaving a complete trail of disaster behind him beginning the first day he went out on his own. The day I was fired from this employer the cops were called. Cops spoke to me and told me to leave. Cops went on to chew out the terminal manager and the assistant terminal manager for wasting their time - I just laughed. Complete trash.

A few years back, an employee at a related company facility in Indiana crossed over into Kentucky, broke into a random home of a family he had never met but was apparently watching them for whatever reason. He found a butcher knife in the kitchen went upstairs to a bedroom with a 6yo boy sleeping by himself and proceeded to stab the boy to death. The father was able to retrieve his hand gun and hold the murderer at gunpoint until the cops arrived. The reason he gave for killing the boy was that 'he hated all people of that race and they should all die'. I really expected his employer (my previous employer) to go to bat for him as they were 'diversity and inclusion' freaks to the extreme but they disavowed knowledge of the guy instead. Read later the guy left a steady trail of destruction behind himself at the same employer from day one.

 

So was it the training that this guy was forced to endure in the trucking industry what made him snap? Was the trainer secretly a person like Hannibal Lechter that somehow subliminally programmed the trainee?