Advice FROM a new driver TO other new drivers...re: Tweaker Mentor

We hear the term, "Pay your dues", well, LE definitely have paid their dues!

 

I hope you dumped that pee bottle before you drive because pee is considered hazmat and you better have a placard and also drive on the hazmat route.

 

If peeing in the truck is something you and the trainer discussed, it's one thing. If not, then to me it shows disrespect to another's home. That in itself could be the catalyst of the problems. Or not. I don't know, nor do I really care.

I would encourage you to watch Rashamon. Beyond being a great film, it shows how the same events are viewed from varying perspectives. There are several points on your narrative that appear to be missing salient details, like maybe you stopped at the company terminal on Saturday because the weather meant you would not get to the customer before they closed or you ran out of hours and the consigned isn't open on Sunday. Again, do I know? Nope, because all I have is your version. But it is a question I would be asking if I were the training manager.

Just because you are still employed is not an indication that your company believed your version entirely and that they believe you are 100% in the right. Large cariers are so desperate for drivers they will do a lot to salvage a situation like yours. After failing one trainee, he complained I had anger problems because I shouted "Stop, Get out and look". The company put him with another trainer. They got through the week, he went out on his own, and quit two weeks later after being "verbally abused" by a customer. I had another guy swapped into my truck because he claimed his trainer was "starving him out". Turns out the trainee insisted on stopping someplace with a sit down restaurant preferably with a buffet, for each meal. Or the guy (not mine) who claimed (and sued for) harassment for being told "you smell like ####, go back and shower again with soap". Or, or, or, or - I can go on for days with aggrieved trainee stories. Most times both trainer and trainee have joint ownership over the problems.

Finally, implying that I should stick "my red flags" up my rear shows a lack of patience. You posted on an open forum, I replied with my perspective. There was no need to take umbrage.

 

Oh you’re still involved in LE just in a different way!! Lol Sorry to hear about bad experience. My Dad was a Trainer last 10 yrs He Trucked. I Heard many a horror story from some of his Trainees about other Trainers.Usually followed by you’re Dads the best you’re lucky to have a Dad like that etc. That’s been over 20 yrs ago. Someday you may run into a LE Officer with an Abusive attitude. Most are Professional but I’ve had a few over the years that are outright Abusive. That day if it comes to pass will be interesting I’m sure.Anyway enjoyed the read and Congrats on your Professional attitude. Welcome to my World!!! Lol

 

Sorry meant to direct quote at OP

 

Great post/thread .

Just popped in to say I had a Great Mentor/Trainer at Swift.

Became good friends..
Still talk to him almost every day..

 

I used to train. Some still think we was good friends... I wish they stop texting me and or stop calling.. We not friends... stop already... Your off my truck... Its time to move on.