Balls to the wall and getting sick

Maybe it's not the way it should be done but you would be surprised at how much you can learn by "doing it".

 

That explains the sorry state of trucking in NA.
Nobody learns anything anymore.
It's just underpaid forced labor.
It's the most dangerous occupation in NA according to BL statistics.
Does anyone want any change to happen?
Then start with the training standards.
Otherwise, just welcome TuSimple and their autonomous trucks.
I'm mad as hell about this. If anyone will abuse their spouse like this,
she'll pick up the phone and dial 911.
As a trainer, you are responsible for your trainee well being.

 

The shortest route to a better situation is finish the training with your current trainer and company and life will be better when you are in your solo truck. This is the hardest period for most drivers in their career. You don't have much control over your schedule, or anything else. In the 8 weeks I was with my trainer, I only got more than 2 continuous hours of sleep if we got a hotel room. I just could not sleep well at all in the moving truck. No matter how tired I was I would either wake up after every big pothole or just randomly wake up and not be able to get back to sleep.

It will get better. Try to eat anything but fat and sugar and keep drinking water. Good luck, it's hard for everyone at first.

 

IMO the OP is not going to make progress by trying to quit his way to better jobs. While I would advise EVERYONE to avoid reefer, stay at your first company for a year and then move to a company that better fits your needs and wants. I will become homeless before I would ever pull reefer freight, again. Too many problems, the worst customers in the industry, and the wild shifts in schedules just amplifies all of the problems in every segment of trucking. The shortest path to a better situation for the OP is to just toght out the next couple of weeks, not throw them away and start over at zero with another company.

 

Now rookie drive is going to change the operation of the company he choose to work for. The change comes from drivers not walking in blind to a trucking company and only then learning how that company operates. Once you are in the seat driving their truck, you will be expected to drive the way that company operates. Some of the drivers at the company know would be just as upset if the company made everyone operate how the new driver feels would work best for him. The choice comes when you are shopping for an employer. If you buy a Yugo you can't force the company to turn your Yugo into a Mercedes at Yugo prices. Pick carefully, you will be at the company for a year or more. Stay put until you have enough info from current working drivers at the new company to KNOW, not just hope, that is the place to work. Winding up at good companies often means not switching companies every time something unpleasant happens. It's extremely easy to lock yourself into the the middle and lower quality companies by not doing research and just moving from company to company when something doesn't suit you.

 

The OP is three weeks from going solo while working in an environment where he is learning almost nothing. In 4 weeks (counting a week of 'off time' getting set up for orientation), he can be out on his own with Schneider. I would bet a months pay against a doughnut that the trainee will learn more in the 4 weeks switching to Schneider than he will doing what he is now.

If the trainer isn't in the right hand seat then training isn't occurring and the driver should be earning full wages.

 

he's making money for his trainer, simple as that.

 

Regarding POST #1:
YOU HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF YOU BECAUSE WITHOUT YOU, WHO CAN YOU BECOME??
If YOU Are Getting Sick From YOUR Trainer and YOU Get Sicker, Who's FAULT Is IT??
YOU Are RESPONSIBLE For YOU!!

GET IT DONE!!

...or this name will maybe be on your epitaph: KiLLeM.

 

I mostly agree with you but you learn plenty while driving as a rookie and your "trainer" in the sleeper. Driving and navigating to truck stops changing interstate highways and just being in traffic with the maniac car drivers is learning. Doing all of that while the trainer sits silently in the passenger seat looking at his phone is also learning.

How is the OP going to learn enough about Schneider to make a responsible decision to quit halfway through this training period? Everybody has an excuse for quitting. Quitting is usually not a shortcut to success.

 

A mask isn't going to do sh inside a closed up truck. It probably isn't even doing anything inside a store.