What if it Snows?

Maybe you'd be doing all of us a favor if ST didn't pass his training period.
Is he what we really want to share the road with?
I'm sure you've thought of this but you have some personal liability. If ST goes out on his own, crashes and kills somebody, the resultant lawsuit is going to include you as part of the process.
It might never come to that but if it was your truck and your company would you put him out there by himself?

 

You ever just wake up all melancholy, and just put on some mellow Stan Getz or Miles Davis and really wish you would’ve gone to the bar to meet that art chick during your second sophomore year of college? And then you start thinking about it and realize that she was probably just an a-hole groupie and would’ve talked to you for hours on end about her sculpting out of tofu or something.

*note to self: Do not watch ”High fidelity” before bed after a long day with STT.

 

Thats the news nowadays. Overhype everything.

Every snow storm gets named now and its always the worst once since the last one. Every tropical storm is gonna be a cat17 civilization killer. Every rain storm is an epic event. So on and so forth.

 

Bet the OM will scarf that salmon for breakfast with no issue.

 

I think about that all the time.

I believe everyone deserves a shot. This is America. He has 240 hours drive time with me in the truck. It would be so easy for me to say this guy is a corvair. But the result would be that I’d feel like a quitter and lazy. This guy has been given, in my opinion, horrible instruction about so many aspects of trucking. He’s at least moderately open to instruction. I’m going to do my best. Yes there’s time I wish he’d just bump another trailer so this could be over. The thing is I really do love an underdog story. That’s this guy.

All I’d have to do is call the head of my terminals training depart and say “ I don’t feel safe with this student driver.” And they’d route me to the yard and give STT a bus ticket home. I believe the reason I was given this student is because they know I won’t do that just because the guy is annoying or not the kind of person that I’d hang with.

I don’t know @REO6205 maybe it’s because of my being so close to when I started driving truck that I remember what it’s like. I will guarantee this, if this guy is a danger as I near the end of his training I will not hesitate to tell training that and fail him.

 

It's kinda like the straw that broke the camel's back.