Are there companies where I don't have to live with a trainer?

Nothing is ALWAYS true.

 

Well that's you but the majority has to go out with a trainer and I say the longer the better and do not release trainee till he knows everything there is to know.Companies like western and transport America or is it transam,only has two weeks training and it shows.I don't know why they have training to begin with,drivers aren't learning anything.

 

Try a beer distributor. You'll still go with a trainer but be home every night.

You'll need to pass a much more strenuous physical though.

 

Not meaning to put anyone down, but in my opinion, if you can't handle yourself after a week or 2, you don't belong in this industry.

 

You are too paranoid, scardy cat and unfit to journey with People in Trucking. Even a pretty female trainer will not save you here.

Trainers (I was one several times with varying degrees of success and failure) have a grave and important responsibility to all brother and sister Truckers. That is to ensure no one gets hired on who will kill themselves or deliberately kill someone.

If you are going to be a perv, you will be tossed onto your ###. If you are going to chase after drinking you are going to sober up 2000 miles from home in a county drunk tank. If you are a fighter, that will be promptly beat out of you well enough. Some of the boys and a few girls... they can hit like a train. I don't care if you were Muhammad Ali at 30 years old. Uppity people tend to get knocked on the ###.

Trainers are there to ensure you can lump freight without whining. Or #####ing. Or being aggrieved all nightlong

A good demonstration of your new found skills are a delight to a trainer,.

I myself am a brooder. I'll be under the corner somewhere inside a virtual black cloud. easy enough for trainer to find the radio and run tunes half the day.

If you are found to be truly bad, horrible or dangerous on the wheel... you simply will not get into the industry. Period.

It's kind of similar to the way the US Navy makes Master Chief. They send prospect little chief to a big installation filled with big Chiefs whose life time of experience on the rolling main will decide if little chief will get to wear the trident or not and have the right to be called Master Chief.

 

Second that. No snake here either.

 

I wonder if there is double posting going in by accident? ANyone?

 

Except what you just said.

 

Well without even meaning to put people down you sure have. I think you are a natural at it.

If you believe that in two weeks you will run into every problem out there in trucking you are sadly mistaken. There will be times when things go wrong that you will pray to God for his helping hand. One of my first times was in Indianapolis, IN. Early morning traffic jam coming down a ramp with bumper to bumper traffic. Thin ice sheet. Trailer starts coming around. Brakes do not stop the slide or even slow me down. I hit the clutch and sound the horn. Cars pull out of my way as the trailer gets back behind me. I did the correct thing and did not hit anyone. The tractor three back of me, hit like 7 cars on the same ramp. It was training that saved me. Training and the good Lord paying extra attention to me that day. I guarantee that someday you will find yourself in deep water hoping there is a life guard. And if all you know is what your learned in the first two weeks, you best have gills to breathe.