Any Questions for a Driver Trainer for Maverick?

At orientation: designated smoking areas. In the trainer's truck, its up to the instructor. Once you eval out and get your own truck, don't set the bunk on fire but its been issued to you and your expected to take care of it but can smoke anywhere you want in it, up front or in the sleeper.

 

my rule is as long as the truck is moving, you can smoke inside the front of the truck as long as you crack the window to suck the smoke out your side. No smoking in the bunk. No throwing cig butts out the window, and any spills from your ashtray (bottle with water in it) you clean it up. I chew tobacco and wouldn't dare ask a student to clean up my spit so im not going to clean up a smoker's "Butt Water"

 

Ditto. Don't quite understand the part about losing the best student in the class when warren said to ask other recruiters though. Care to elaborate?

 

maverick no longer has a road test before you go out with an instructor. Nor do they have a backing test. Your test is a minimum of 21 calendar days in A trainer truck. Most students coming straight out of del school are with me 4 to five weeks until both they and I feel that they are ready to be on their own.

Proper backing and cornering are essential to being successful at any job. Especially driving. Most people's biggest problem is themselves and their way of thinking. If I repeatedly tell myself, "I cannot back up.". Guess what.....I CAN'T. If I have a student in the truck that has problems backing I do what I can, when I can to get them to understand what they need to do in the cab to get the trailer to go where they want it to go.

BUT. Maverick is also looking for r.o.I.--return on investment. If I have tried all I can to teach someone the basic fundamentals of backing and they are just not getting it then I'm going to suggest they return to little rock to practice backing, under a controlled environment, not under time constraint of pick up or delivery schedules, etc.

Maverick is not a cdl school and shouldn't be treated as such.

On cornering, its important to remember that you do have a 48 or 53 foot long trailer that also has to clear the curb, light pole, stop sign, pedestrian at a bus stop, baby in A stroller whatever the obstacle may be that you would run over with your trailer if you don't allow for it. Each and every turn has to be analyzed BEFORE you begin to take it. Some you may be able to do so while stopped, ie. At a stop sign, others require a scan ahead of what needs to be done to safely negotiate a turn.

You mentioned you drove a van before. Back in 2007. That was the last time I rode a bicycle. I haven't forgotten how. Just may be a bit rusty at it for a bit of time. Not 5 weeks though