Millis OTR journal

Elmsford NY coca cola had us waiting from 9 am to 5 pm today. As a trainee do i get detention pay? It was on my clock.

 

No detention as a student Cant really exoect customer pay for 2 peoples detention.

 

I understand that but it's on my clock and we're teaming. So he was in SB.

 

That sucks but think long term. In a couple weeks you will have your own truck and all the perks that come with it. Out of 5 students from my class there are only 2 of us left. 1 just wasn’t cut out for OTT he was a great guy, but was a farmer his whole life probably never spent more than a day away from home in 30 years because of the farm. Another guy 27 years old had crappy low paying jobs his entire life quit after a few weeks in his own truck because he missed his gf. The guy was a natural. I remember the first day of backing he did his 90 perfect and never screwed one up the entire class.
3 rd guy think he had a trainer issue and lost his cool and just quit.
When I hit 15000 miles I told my trainer I was willing to just get paid for my miles and not the trucks miles just to get more training. Lol he thought I was an idiot.

Millis pays their trainees to much in my opinion. They should increase trainer pay and weed out the god awful trainers. Go more for quality than quantity. I am sure that better trained new drivers will decrease preventable accident costs.
First week in truck got several Qualcomm messages that I was doing things wrong. I was doing them the way I was trained. No argument from me though just want to do things right and not cause more work for someone else.

Keen sounds like a great trainer and heck just an all around good person. He accepted a phone call from me because my trainer sort of abandoned me once I got my own truck. Met another Millis trainer a week ago he seemed like a very good guy. We talked for about an hour he explained how he trains his students and the guy had a great attitude put training first above maximum mileage.
Anyway just my 2 cents.

 

Doesnt matter Also if you were there from 9 to 5 your clock should've been on sleeper berth also

 

It was. It's ok I just didn't know I don't receive detention pay.

 

So how long do you usually wait before putting yourself on sleeper at a shipper/receiver?