Abandon Trainee

What happened to being a adult? I wonder how a caveman ever survived without someone to to hold his hand.

 

Ouch..lol.

Well we only got half the story.
Who knows if Dave even got the whole story.

Personally I don't believe any story at a truck stop.

 

Agreed, anything is possible. And only a few things like you listed would cause me to set a trainee on the sidewalk and tell the Dispatcher Group to either fire him, collect him or something with him and detailed the workplace issue that caused this situation to develop. If I make such a allegation of something serious I better be able to back it up because I myself could be fired over a whole lot of nothing.

I remember one in particular. 10 minutes settling down to speed on US 15 and I hear this laugher come out of him. Caught a eyeful of medicine bottle being put away. Pulled him into the truckstop and drove him right back to the yard. Told him to get his bag and medicine and follow me.In front of the suit at his desk I had him show the medicine he just took out of the bottle with the label and all. And as luck would have it Count Vlad laughed again right there in that little room.

Suit wakes up fast, boosting his body's chemistry up there and takes the trainee deeper into the farm of closed office doors containing larger and more scary suits with powerful people in them. A few minutes later he goes into another door with a drug test cup. I work on coffee and forgot about him.

After a run downtown to get a sub, came back bobtail to see about the load the safety suit said to me, good catch. I cannot believe we had this one hired. And that was the end of that episode.

To wit I have not had any trainees entrusted to me since then with that outfit. (Thank god.) I would not be with them long enough to get anyone else into trouble.

 

Actually no, it's what happens when you have someone who is not belong here. In this area, the sherriff or the Law will come get him, check him or her out and if no warrants or wants etc (If near a school which there are a bunch of... they check the Sex Offenders list as well) and if there isnt anything to do with him legally, then they tell him two choices. You can stay here for one night either in the jailhouse with door open or in this hotel for one night and move on or we will take you to the town line and you get yourself down the road walking.

Usually they take the town line option, a short ride and a long walk to be repeated at the next town they hit.

It is not hard to spot a stranger who does not belong in these parts. And they will usually be looked at right quick. Just to be sure there isnt anything seriously wrong going on or about to go down.

 

Aye true enough . I had a great trainer , an ex rodeo cowboy . I was 21 and we pulled into a motel in Pico Rivera. Delivering the next morning at six am. He gave me his free drink card and I hooked up with a gal in the bar and got my own room . Left a wake up notice at the desk . Never got the call and woke up at eight . Truck was gone . Called dispatch and my DM said heard ya got a hore! If your trainer shows back up to get you you’re in luck ! I waited in that lobby for an hour and he rolled up . I hopped him and he just smiled . Never said a word . The next drop I walked a mile to get him a cup of coffee . Good times and good thing I didn’t have to sleep on the floor of that motel

 

I was going to say that’s pretty nifty if you can just get a ride line to line all the way home

 

"Adult" is so 20th century! That was when you showed up for a job, and got trained to do the job and they leave you alone when you 'get it'. They didn't ask you if you like the trainer or how and when and where you wanted to work. "Do the job or go home, boy."

But today, you have lunch counter lawyers, internet keyboard warriors and internet tough guys who think that they can be A Holes to people and not have consequences. A trainer can't just drop a student anywhere WITHOUT company approval. There are checks and balances in place. Trainees get a DM that's different from the trainer's. If there's a legit problem, trainee should call his DM first. But this trainee got dumped. That was a company decision, not the trainer's.

 

I'm all for being an adult, but is being an adult leaving someone stranded in the middle of nowhere? Yes in theory, we should all have money but you and I both know not everyone is that fortunate for one reason or another.

 

You're right, but even if it was a company decision, that's messed up, especially since they brought the student however many miles. We don't know the story, so it's tough to make a call one way or another.

 

Maybe the trainee got off the truck because the trainer was a danger. Company then incorrectly sided with the trainer.

Just saying it’s possible.